Items for Shatnerball???

[Muzikman]

As for head sets, Radio Shack has some nice PTT Earbuds. They work great when playing paintball What you do not want are the voice activated headsets. We don't all want to hear you breath:)

[wyn1370]

I just ordered a motorola. My question would be, can you use your hand free cell phone equipment on the radio? I've got two or three handsfree kits I could bring if they'll work.

[Muzikman]

My guess is not. I know radios use a dual mono jacks (Mic and Phone). Most Cell phones use just a single stereo jack (Tip-mic / Ring-Phone). Also, I have never seen a PTT cell phone head set/earbud.

[wyn1370]

Really I just want to ear bud part to work. Well I'll try it out when it shows up.

[warpfeedmod]

I'm headed to RadioShack later on

[jeffremiller]

The VOX or PTT is a function of the radio... not the headset so any headset with two jacks should work ok as PTT. I have one earbud set and one over the ear set. Haven't tried the bud set yet... It's a single plug but has a split-out adapter with it.

J_

[Muzikman]

Hmm...my PTT has the button on the mic. If I plugged a mic directly into the mic port on the radio it would always act as a VOX.

[jeffremiller]

There should also be a VOX PTTT setting on the radio... it defaults to VOX if the headset is plugged in... I guess I should ask... Is it a Talkabout?

J_

[wyn1370]

I got a Motorola TalkAbout T6400. It ended up being cheaper than the 250 because of a mail in rebate.

[Kaiser Bob]

There are radios with scrambler options? I know the subchannels are like seperate but not really, because you can monitor all traffic on a channel thru subgroup 0. If they have scrambled options that would be great, but how would you get all our radios to use the same scrambled protocol?

[jeffremiller]

That's why I have all motorola radios :) Some of the others don't do the scambles or subchannel stuff.

J_