Headset for XTL series radios

[N4DES]

We have a situation where we have control stations set up in some trailers they get deployed to certain areas of the County after a major incident and currently have them stored in go-boxes, etc. and after our last drill it was mentioned that the operators had issues hearing the audio out of the XTL1500's and a query was sent to me about purchasing headsets for the control station/mobile radios.

What I'm looking for is somthing that isn't very complex to assemble, nothing any more complex than plugging the microphone into the front or the accessory plug on the back. Does anyone make such an animal? If it is just for RX audio that would satisfy the need as well and they could just use the hand mic, but it must be simple to assemble as a non-technical person would be putting it together.

We discussed the idea of putting a headphone jack at the side of the desk tray, but a retrofit would be a last resort.

Any ideas guys?
Mark

[Tom in D.C.]

Mark,

Perhaps the simplest approach would be to provide a short cable adapter that would match up a listen-only headset (no mic)
with the standard gray cable speaker output that comes out of the multipin plug on the back of the XTL. You might have to
extend the gray cable to bring it "out front" but that wouldn't add much, if any, complexity to the task.

Regards,

[resqguy911]

Well, it isn't cheap- but I think this will do what you want http://www.firecom.com/products/intercoms/110.php

[N4DES]

Thanks guys,

Tom that is probably the route I am going to go with, that being the headset would be only for the RX audio and the installation of a jack on the speaker tray. The operator would utilize the hand mic to TX and would not have a boom mic attached to the headset.

I wasn't going to look for any 3rd party connections as those assembling the radios wouldn't be very technical and it is difficult enough for them to find the keyway for the XTL mic to fit on the radio correctly, so the firecom device won't work out for us.

Thanks
Mark

[wd9cms]

Mark,

If you have remote head O5 XTL5000's order the cable in this post and you can just plug in headphones which will also mute the external speaker. http://batboard.batlabs.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=90515


Bill

[N4DES]

They are dashmount XLT1500 and 2500's. I guess I neglected to put that in the original post.