Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!samsung!umich!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: 0004133373@mcimail.com (Donald E. Kimberlin) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Close-Talking Mikes (was Telecom Peeves) Message-ID: <10166@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 26 Jul 90 18:49:00 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Telecommunications Network Architects, Safety Harbor, FL Lines: 28 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 519, Message 13 of 13 Responding to: Bob Hale ..Hale responded to a Digest article <9788@accuvax.nwu.edu> by gs26@prism.gatech.edu (Glenn R.Stone) about close-talking microphones with reference to WWII "throat mikes". Stone had said: >I've never heard one in action, so I don't know how well it worked, >but it seems to have got us thru the war, so there must be something >there. ..Hale's response ended with: >Maybe the technology has improved but I'd have to hear it to believe >it. Well, perhaps you haven't listened to the helicopter traffic reports on radio or TV of recent times. There's been a LOT of improvement. Among several sources I found, the products of a firm called Global-Wolfsburg seem to be most highly thought of. Their products are used not only by broadcasting people, but many law enforcement agencies at all levels of government. For anyone with a serious interest, you can get good advice from Jack Hammill at Florida Avionics, (813) 530-0300. I reckon Jack probably knows. We do have more than a few pilots chasing drug dealers around Florida, you know! Not much time for asking, "What did you say?" on their radio nets.