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Two Way Radio Solution for Facilities, Manufacturing and Distribution Centers

Manufacturing, Warehouse, Storage and Distribution Centers

When it comes to production or facilities operations, unexpected stops or downtown can severely damage efficiency and create enormous cost overruns. The best way to avoid these issues is with an effective communications solution.

By connecting workers in real-time, the flow of information is quick, effective, and seamless. Workers can communicate vital needs and concerns without interrupting the pace of their workflow. Ensuring that key staff members are able to quickly communicate keeps everything operating at their peak.

Many of your departments and staff can immediately benefit from simple, easy to use and powerful 2 way radio equipment. Whether its shipping, receiving, line workers, supervisors, maintenance, quality control, engineering, customer service, security, or loss prevention staff members, each can benefit from by staying mobile and efficient and not having to drop what they are doing to search for a to communicate.

Industry Benefits of Employee Radio Communications:

  • Improve Assembly Line Operations

  • Quickly Request Help, Supplies, Maintenance, and Quality Control

  • Maximize Output, sales, and Profit

  • Expedite Requests and Rush Orders

  • Instantly React to Inquiries or Emergencies

  • Critical for Disaster Preparedness

  • Increase Safety and Security

    Radios consistently rank higher than other solutions.

Paging:

Paging is only a one-way communication. It is load, annoying, and many times purposefully or accidentally tuned out. In addition, the response is often delayed, thus wasting time for staff and customers alike.

Phone systems:

Standard phone systems only allow talking to one worker at a time. Often phones are not strategically located within easy reach of a worker’s assigned area. Unless the worker is waiting right next to a phone, calls are often missed and left ringing for all to hear. This can often cause a backup on voice mails, yet another possible opportunity to backup and lose contact. By the time all is said and done when the worker is able to respond, it is often just too late.

Cell Phones:

Cellular technology, although very portable, often comes with significant monthly expenses. These can range well into the hundreds of dollars per worker annually. These also have many limitations caused by poor coverage in buildings and again only connect with one worker at a time.

Consumer Walkie-Talkies

Consumer Walkie Talkies are not durable and just not made for normal business environments.   Warehouses, stock facilities, factories and industrial locations are notoriously hard on equipment and commercial walkie talkies are not build to handle it. With their wide-use among families, they also pose an increased risk of interference when trying to communicate important business.

Commercial, industrial grade 2 way radios can help solve many of your communication
challenges. Also, purchasing is not the only option. For many needs long term renting can offer
cost effective and comprehensive solutions for your company.   Call EventTone and speak with
one of our representatives. We’ll be happy to help you find the answers.

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Executive Summary

 

The new technology inherent in digital two-way radios offer many advantages over the traditional analog radios which have been in use for decades in the conventions sector. Though analog still has its place and will for some time to come, the benefits digital offers, such as enhanced coverage and audio, text messaging, and user ID are making the move to digital more and more attractive.

This white paper was produced to explain many of these benefits. EventTone is offering a cooperative arrangement for convention centers, stadiums and large facilities to help them upgrade their communications to digital while keeping their costs manageable.

Challenges

Facilities are dealing with the need to upgrade their technology and improve their communications as they expand their workable space.

Based on current cost and the size of your facility, this type of an upgrade can run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. In today’s economy, that kind of an expenditure is not an easy one to make.

The staff at EventTone has years of experience setting up and providing networks like these in many of the largest convention centers and arenas in the New York Metro Area. Many buildings require repeater infrastructure. Constantly installing temporary systems is inefficient, labor intensive and costly. EventTone has created a way to install permanent repeater networking in facilities to eliminate temporary installation saving both time and money.

Solution

We have implemented a strategic plan that involves a cooperative, mutually beneficial relationship whereby EventTone provides all or part ofthe required repeater equipment which is utilized by the facility for its daily communications needs. This eliminates the need for large expenditures. EventTone, as an associated provider becomes a preferred supplier. We expect to recoup our investment through radio rentals to the various clients, vendors and contractors working with the facility.

Rental Applications

Two way radio rentals offer excellent communications solutions for many different sectors including:

    • Trade shows
    • Fairs and festivals
    • Sporting events
    • Musical Concerts
    • Refinery turnarounds
    • Various Corporate Functions
    • Security
    • Facilities, Theaters & Venues

EventTone offers all the most popular communications solutions including:

Digital & Analog 2 Way Radios
Digital and Analog Repeaters
Direct Connect Push To Talk Mobile Phones
Wireless Cellular Wifi Solutions

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Winter Emergency Communications

Well, its becoming abundantly obvious that winter is on its way.  It’s only the middle of November and 3/4’s of the nation is already in a deep freeze.  Nothing brings back worse memories than those 2 words….”Polar Vortex.”

With this kind of weather, communications systems are always in peril.  Both land lines and cell towers take quite a beating during this season.  The follow story was posted on a Massachusetts state webpage:

Recently, NORTH ADAMS, Mass. is without much cellular service and communication due to the collapse of two main towers on Florida Mountain.

The North Adams Department of Public Safety released an emergency message stating, “Due to high winds and heavy rain throughout the night, the radio towers on top of Florida Mountain have collapsed. This has resulted in the loss or significant interruption of cell and internet services in the North Adams area.”

Tom Grady of the Berkshire County Sherriff’s has stated that Verizon, Nextel and Sprint are down but AT&T is working.

According to emergency service crews one tower fell on top of the other due to the weather system Saturday night, but a full investigation was ongoing.

According to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, North Adams has activated its Emergency Operations Center to manage this incident.  Agencies and organizations, as well as Mayor Dick Alcombright and Senator Downing are at the EOC.

Road signs are going to be put up around the city, notifying drivers that there is no cell service.

North Adams is notifying residents through a reverse 911 system.

Short term solutions are being discussed.

EventTone Wireless has just the equipment needed to manage this situation.  No matter what the weather conditions, 2 way radio communications are unaffected.  Whether you are a private business or a municipality, EventTone is here for you.

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42 Tips For Producing A Memorable Small Business Event

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Small Business Event Planning: What to Do First

1. Decide upon your target audience before anything else.  The first step — before you do anything else — should be to clearly define who your target audience is. From this all the other decisions will fall into place in terms of format, content, prices, location etc. This structured approach will also help you to stay focused on achieving specific goals and not allowing the scope to become too broad or watered down.

2. Make a list of details — everything including lighting and public transportation, to content and refreshments.  When you decide to have an event, everything matters. From program content and lighting to transportation and parking — everything counts. And your audience will attribute everything to you and…your brand.  Making a list will ensure you don’t overlook things.

3. Have a clear business purpose for holding the event.  Before you can begin planning a successful event, be clear on why you are doing it in the first place, because every decision after that should support your main goal. Is it lead generation? Is it to create awareness of your company or a particular product?  Is is to develop customer loyalty? Or do you simply want to make money (which is okay too)?  And make sure the team is aware of the purpose, so that you don’t have “scope creep.”

4. Watch out for other industry events when scheduling.  Check the calendar. Make sure you don’t schedule your event on or too close to holidays or popular vacation times. It’s just as important to check for other events that your target attendees might be going to.

5. Be flexible with changes in size, location and other details.  As you get into the event planning process, you may find that your event changes in size, location, and many other ways than you originally envisioned. This is natural and perfectly fine as long as you don’t lose sight of the reason you’re doing all this work in the first place.  Some flexibility is necessary.

6. Know your limitations. We all know the goal is to throw a great live event. To that end, we also have to be aware of what we can or cannot realistically do — be it budget … or time-wise. If you decide to throw a live event in a week’s time, plan for a more intimate affair. If it’s a big event, prepare several months ahead. If the budget is small, you may have to counterbalance with creativity and a lot of do-it-yourself work.

7. Create SMART goals. Always start with strategy. Just like building any business, great events start with a strong, thoughtful and measurable strategy. Live events are an amazing way to share your brand, connect with your target market, get feedback on your product (and more!), but you need to know what you are trying to achieve. Stick with SMART goals and outline what you are aiming for. Then make sure that you proceed in line with reaching these goals.

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Budget: How to Pay For Your Event

8. Develop a “financing plan” for your event, and estimate the numbers. Know how you are going to pay for the event. Most events are funded by sponsorships, ticket sales, internal marketing budgets — or a combination of all three. When you create your budget for the event, you’ll need to estimate how much money you can realistically raise from each area. Before you book your venue or sign any contracts, it’s a good idea to start signing sponsors first, or selling advance tickets to make sure there is enough interest in your idea to fund it.

9. Create an expense budget  – and save money through “in-kind” sponsor donations.  Events tend to cost more than the average small business owner thinks — primarily in regards to the venue and food and beverage. Remember to price out all the permits and licenses you will need as well. (This is where an event planner can help you avoid headaches.)  Make a comprehensive list of all the expenses and then highlight areas where you think sponsors can play a role to offer something “in kind.” The more you work with other brands and partners to host your events, the more you can save.

10. Consider crowdfunding as a new option to raise money for an event.  If this is your first time running events, use crowdfunding platforms to ease the risk. By publishing your events on these platforms attendees will need to pledge for tickets for the event to take place. If the minimum number of attendees required is not met the event does not take place.

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Marketing: Getting People to Attend

11. You’ll need a DETAILED marketing plan. Create a marketing plan for the event. The more organized you are, the more professional your event will be.

12. Be tireless in your efforts or your event will fail.  If you don’t want to be at your event alone … then market, market, market, market … and market some more.

13. Define good reason(s) for people to show up.  What’s the draw for attendees? You need to define WHAT you’re doing at the event that will bring those target attendees in the door. For a consumer product it might be a party with entertainment and product demos and freebies. For a business crowd it might be educational content or an exciting, well-known expert speaker. Whatever it is, don’t lose the connection with why you want this particular audience clamoring to get in.

14. Lay out in writing why your target market should attend – don’t assume the benefits are obvious. When promoting an event be sure to tell your target market what they will learn, who they will meet and why they should be there. Don’t assume your friends will tell their friends. If you are using speakers, give them advertising copy so that they can promote the event to their audiences.

15. Learn how to talk to the media. Journalists are very busy and always on deadline … they don’t have time to hear a sales pitch. Let them know that the information exists and — for future stories — that you are an expert in that field. Include that information when you reach out.

16. Use Twitter hashtags. Twitter is terrific for promoting events and for creating a sense of online community around an event. Set up a unique hashtag early on. Search Twitter first to make sure it’s not already in use. Put the hashtag right on the event website, and if you use the Tweet button for sharing on the site, work the hashtag right into the premade verbiage. When people tweet, it promotes the event automatically on Twitter.

17. Use online social pre-events to promote the main event.  To build interest in your event, trying holding a Google Hangout or a Twitter chat a few weeks before the main event. Invite a few of your speakers to participate in the online social event. Give a preview of what’s to come at the main event, by doing some discussion of what speakers will cover, or highlight the activities. It generates anticipation.

18. Buy advertising on social media networks.   Buying advertising on social networks is often overlooked by small events. Social advertising platforms (Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter above all) offer in depth targeting options that can significantly help to reach our target audience in our geographical location. The good news is that no large budgets are required and ticket sales can be easily measured.

19. Use YouTube to promote your event. YouTube is the second search engine worldwide after Google. Uploading videos from our previous events or interviews with our speakers/performers is a great way to convince prospective attendees to click on buy. Video provides significant visual cues thus impacting heavily on our decision making process. With events we always feel the risk of not knowing what will happen, video eases that tension.

20. Create an awesome low-budget promotional video. A little creativity with some poster board, a royalty-free music clip, and a good smartphone video camera will create a fun video to help publicize what’s to come.  Here’s a good video example, that did just that on a shoestring budget, to promote a small business event.

21. Get local bloggers involved.  Be smart with bloggers. Involving local bloggers to participate at the event is usually a great strategy to gain audience before, during and after the event. Bloggers usually count on a wide reach and do not usually follow traditional media rules.

22. Leverage event registration platforms like Meetup. Use existing platforms. If this is your first attempt at running an event and you lack the skills to promote it, have a look at Meetup.com. Other than offering a suite to manage events online, Meetup is a great referrer for relevant audience in your area. It also features registration and RSVP management capabilities that are particularly handy if you are inexperienced.

23. Use online registration. The easier way to scare people away is by having analog registration (faxes, bank draft or at the door only). Offer online registration to secure as many attendees as soon as possible, that will help to forecast numbers and release budget soon.

24. Get listed on sites catering to your group. Once you know who you want to attend, the next step is to put yourself in front of them. There are websites that specialize in listing events nationally (e.g. Meetup, Lanyrd) and locally so start there and research which are the most appropriate to get listed on.

25. Offer local partners incentives to promote you. Press releases sent to the relevant media outlets will help generate news buzz and you could look at getting media (online and offline) involved as partners. They get exposure at your event in return for publicizing it. If they don’t want to get involved at that level, approach them with the idea of running a competition for their readers to win tickets.

26. Make it easy on your speakers to publicize to their followers. If you have any experts/speakers attending,  encourage them to publicize their attendance to their social media followers/email subscribers.

27. Give early bird incentives. Early bird tickets at a cheaper rate are a great way to get early sign ups by giving people an incentive to act now rather than wait and forget.

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Team: Who Is Going to Help?

28. Delegate responsibilities.  No matter the size of your business, always try to delegate responsibilities. Having one person in charge of every detail typically doesn’t work out well. Whenever possible, let people take control of the areas they most enjoy. For example, let the foodie in your company handle the catering details. The more someone enjoys their responsibilities, the more likely they will carry them out with success.

29. Follow up – and follow up again.  Check in early and often. Though no one wants to be micromanaged, make sure that employees and vendors are on track with their event duties. As long as people know you expect updates from time to time, they are less likely to become frustrated when you call or email for one.

30. Sponsors are royalty – make sure they feel like it.  If you have sponsors — treat them like kings. They fund your event and enable you to do it (if that’s your business model). Be very clear before the event what they will get as sponsors.

31. Always underestimate turnout, for sponsors. If you think you can get 100 attendees, base your sponsorship pitch on a lower estimate — especially if this is your first event. It’s better to give sponsors a pleasant surprise than a disappointing one.

32. Ask people what they think, and be ready for feedback good or bad. Ask for critiques. If you’ve done half a decent job, you’ll get lots of kudos. Say thanks, but then ask for the CRITIQUE and be ready for it.

33. Have a skilled social media team cover your event.  Don’t forget a social media team. While not imperative for every event or industry, more and more events are focusing on harnessing the viral power of their audience. If your audience is tweeting, Facebooking and taking pictures on Instagram — you should be doing the same and you will need a trained team to execute.

34. Look for vendors who serve your niche and are willing to get involved. The best vendors you can work with are those who are familiar with small business culture. Look for vendors who work with small businesses frequently or who would get involved on a bigger level than their role.

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Event Day:  Pulling It Off

35. Set expectations carefully – then deliver. Ensure that the audience has a GREAT (not good) experience; and that you give them what they expected from attending.

36. Attitude is contagious.  Your guests in large part will play off your attitude and dynamics during the event. Lead by example and have a good time.

37. Let crowd reaction be your barometer.  Read the audience during the event. Ask people how they are doing. If things are going great, and if they are not, you’ll know.

38. Always ask yourself: How is this relevant to attendees?  Make sure you are offering content that is relevant to over 80% of the audience. The audience must walk away with tangible tactics to improve their business and career … and they must feel the speaker’s energy. Speaking about your business and what you do — without offering the audience what THEY need — is a waste of time and money for all.

39. As the master of ceremonies or a speaker – practice.  You know your business, but do not assume that you know how to put on a presentation. Practice giving your presentation, answering questions and handling difficult and confrontational members of the audience. The more prepared you are the better.

40. Look your best. Look the part… be comfortable but fashion forward. Even if you are an accountant or lawyer, choose your most distinctive suit or tie. People remember how comfortable you are in your own skin.

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Contingency Plan: What to Do When Things Go Wrong

41.  Imagine the event, step by step, and make a 2-column list: what could go wrong in one column, and your contingency plan in the second.  Be prepared for the unexpected. Maybe the sound system fails. Maybe your keynote presenter bails. Can you cope and move on?

42. Be ready to lend a hand to fill any gaps. Although planning ahead is a great formula for success, it is never enough. Something unexpected always comes up. Thus, it pays to put in a little extra elbow grease for extenuating circumstances. This applies to catering arrangements, printing requirements, guest accommodations, weather forecasts, entertainment and more.

Contributed by Jamal Warner

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Old Navy Celebrates 20th Birthday With “Selfiebration” in Times Square

Old Navy feted its 20th birthday with a “selfiebration” in Times Square on October 16. The brand asked fans to tweet their birthday wishes and upload selfies to Twitter with a #selfiebration hashtag. Three fans had their wish granted by Old Navy—whether that wish was for an exotic vacation or meeting a celebrity—and many other participants received recognition on a “balloon billboard.”

Covered with 1,000 custom balloons, the 15-foot billboard was created by Deeplocal, which referred to the creation as a “selfie machine.” Connected to nearly five miles of wiring, the machine comprised 16 modular balloon boxes. Deeplocal’s software grabbed images from Twitter that had the “sefliebration” hashtag, and rasterized the photos to display them on the billboard via inflated balloons. The machine was designed to create two selfies per minute, and ran for eight hours to feature approximately 1,000 selfies.

The event also took place in Hollywood.

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Six steps that will make your corporate event a success

Events are about communication. They can be the most engaging way to experience a brand or a company and therefore be one of the most powerful communication tools you can have. But what makes an event successful? Is it the venue? The food? The entertainment? Well it is all of those things and more – it’s the experience. A successful event is a memorable event for all the right reasons. It gets people talking beyond the night and recalling the experience as a fond memory.

Here are some tips to make sure your next event is a memorable one.

 

1: Why

Ask yourself why am I holding this event? Why should anyone attend? What will they see and experience at this event that I can’t communicate through an email or phone call? If you don’t have the answer then rethink your event. An unveiling, an opportunity to experience a new product or service, network with others – all of these can make having an event a worthwhile experience.

2: What

What is the purpose of this event? Is it to generate new business, fundraise, get people talking about a product, change people’s perceptions or behaviours? Set an objective but be honest and realistic about that objective and make sure it is measurable.

3: Who

Who am I inviting to this event – in putting together that invitation list you may want to consider potential employees, prospective business partners, media or influencers in your industry.

4: Where

Where will the event be held? Consider venues that are convenient to the audience, are accessible for cars and public transport, offer credible and quality catering options and fit with the theme and style of the event and are self contained.

5: When

What day of the week, what time of the day – breakfast, lunch or after work – when are your guests most likely to be able to attend. Take into consideration external factors – for example you don’t want to hold the event the day after a public holiday – people may extend their time off, you can’t send a reminder the day before nor chase any last minute items. Is it school holidays and do my guests have children and are likely to be away?

6: Wow

Add the WOW factor – great events are unique, attract media attention, are remembered. The only limit is your imagination and the ability and resources to develop a concept into reality. You have a captive audience. Use your event wisely to create the right memories.

Every aspect of an event reinforces your brand or company message – so with each stage you plan ensure it reflects the qualities of your brand. The most successful events have the most impact – an event that is memorable and talked about will reach people who weren’t even there to experience it.

And finally, fail to plan and you will surely plan to fail. Happy organising.

Written by Cecila Heward

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The 7 Qualities of Great Event Managers

 

What does it take to be a great event manager? You might think that nowadays with all the abundance of software to help you plan, manage, market and run smoothly your event it’s been easy to become truly great at that job. Well, you are wrong. No matter how advanced the new technologies get, they will never substitute what really makes a great event manager-his personal qualities. Here is a list with the most important qualities that distinguish a great event manager from just a good one.

  1. Passion

That’s definitely number one in my list. Organising and running an event is extremely demanding, exhausting and quite often a stressful job. In order to be good at it you need to love it. Otherwise it’s impossible to bear all the long hours of hard work and the nerve-racking situation that will undoubtedly be part of your workdays. But there is nothing more rewarding for the true great event manager than seeing the success of his event in the end.

  1. Creativity

Out-of-the-box thinking is a must-have quality for the great event manager. Every new event is like a newborn baby: it needs special attention and personal approach. And as every child is different so is every event. That requires being innovative in each aspect and detail of your event management job: from using the newest marketing tools to redesigning your registration form. The great event manager will never put up with doing things the same way as before or with simply copying his competitors. He will dare to be different, strive to awe and be the actual influencer in the industry.

  1. Interpersonal skills

Smooth communication is one of the keys to a smooth event. As an event manager you have to communicate with all sorts of people at all sorts of levels: from governmental official and high level executives to part-time staff and subcontractors. And you will need to relate to all of them for the sake of the success of your event. There are going to be people you don’t like or even such that truly piss you off, but if you are a great event manager you will never lose your temper or behave in any disrespectful way. That takes being not only diplomatic but also down-to earth and self-collected.

  1. Great organizational skills

Organizing an event requires being exceptionally organized yourself as well as able to prioritize and multitask. Ask any bride if you don’t believe me (good that most women are natural multitaskers). The event manager needs to coordinate a number of responsibilities and manage many people simultaneously. And even the best planning or management software cannot compensate for the lack of organizational skills. It could just compliment and assist them.

  1. Team-player spirit

Ok, if you are a wedding planner or organize a small-scale event you might not need that. But organizing an international or any other big-scale event is impossible without a team made of true team-players. Only team-players could work as a well-oiled machine. The true great event manager will be the driving wheel and cutting fluid of that machine.

  1. Flexibility

If there is one thing that is constant when organising an event is that there is nothing constant. Everything moves and changes so fast that you need to be really flexible and adaptive to keep up. The quick-minded and decisive event managers are the true leaders in the industry. Always have a plan b, c and the rest of the alphabet if needed.

  1. Never-panicking attitude

Being a great event manager means also being a never-freaking-out optimist. There will always be “fires to put out” and even things you cannot control or change like: a keynote speaker missing his plane and never showing up at the event, moody attendees bitching about the choice of menu or disappearing volunteering staff in the middle of the event (who being Muslims had to do their afternoon prayer). All these actually happened to me. So if you want to be one of the great in that job just follow that advice: Plan for the best, be prepared to turn around the worst and expect to be surprised.

Passionate, creative, diplomatic, organized, flexible and never-panicking team-player does sound a bit crazy, doesn’t it. Probably is. And probably you need to be a little crazy to be great at that job. But aren’t all great people considered crazy at some point in their lives. So don’t be offended if a competitor calls you crazy. It might actually turn out that you are the great event manager and he is just the good one.

What would you add to the list of the great event manager’s qualities?

 

– By Valerie Paskaleva

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Understanding 2 Way Radio Accessories

 

No matter what new innovation comes along in the wireless communications world, 2 way radios always seem to stick around.  The simplicity of use, the practicality of their function, and the fact they have been around for decades, seem to have kept them in the vogue.  There have been some situations where cell phones have encroached on their territory, but, for larger, more complicated events, or event events that need efficient 1 to 1 and 1 to many connectivity, 2 way radios still hold the answer.

Now let us take a look at the 2 way radio accessories required for this system. You may not be able buy all the accessories at every dealer or rental company.

Here are five common accessories worth considering for your next rental need.

Antenna

One unavoidable accessory for a walkie talkie system is antenna. In some countries like Malaysia these two-way radio systems are provided with normal antenna. But the WOKI TALK company does provide the extendable antenna, whch looks vey much like the ordinary antenna but has the telescoped extendable portion that can be pulled up to its full length.

The extendable portion of the antenna needs to be pulled out only if you reach the critical or marginal area of the radio range for better quality of voice for communication. This extension will also give you several hundred meters of additional coverage for communication. You will often come across situations when you need the additional coverage. That is the time you will realize the real advantage o such a facility.

Headset

Another common accessory is a light weight walkie talkie headset. It enables you to keep both your hands free while talking. Alternatively, you can buy a ear phone device that can be plugged directly into your ear along with a small microphone that can be clipped to your shirt collar for communication.

Microphone

Microphone or hand set microphone, which we mentioned earlier, is one mor commonest accessory of a walkie talkie set. It comes with a wire and a clip for extendable connection.  The microphone is usually clipped to the shirt collar or any other suitable place. While talking it can be pulled closer to the mouth without moving the walkie talkie device. By pressing the side button of the device you can communicate freely.

Carrying Case

Another walkie talkie accessory nice to have is the carrying case. It ensures safe and easy handling of the walkie talkie device. The case originally designed for WOKI H900S model fits most of the walkie talkie models. Initially, the carrying case was used only by Kenwood walkie talkie but now its use has become pretty common.

The strip attached to the carrying case makes it easy for you to sling it across your shoulder.

Those who work under tough outdoor conditions with the exposure to heavy dust and water need a special plastc seal carrying bag. It is not an ordinary type of carrying base. It has enough space to hold the entire walkie talkie device along with even a long antenna installed.

This type of plastic carrying bag is specially useful if you are an enthusiast of challenging outdoor activities like hiking or kayaking. The bag will keep your walkie talkie safe from water.

Relacement Battery 

It is always advisable o keep a spare battery as your back up. The lifespan or the charge duration of the battery depends on how many times you recharge it. Usually after six months of repetitive recharge, the battery performance starts deteriorating.  Having a replacement battery ready with you  will save you from any interruption in the service.

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Important Benefits of Two Way Radios That You Should Learn About

Important Benefits of Two Way Radios That You Should Learn About

A two-way radio is a wireless communication device that is used to transmit and receive information effortlessly. Portable two-way radios are known as walkie-talkies. Although there are smartphones, cellular phones and tablets to help you get connected, nothing comes even remotely close to such devices owing to the benefits that are brought to the table by these. Let us take a look at some of the advantages of these wireless devices to get a better perspective:

  • It is immensely easy to use a Motorola 2 way radio or any other brand of such radio for that matter. Even a 10-year old can be taught to use these without any hassle to communicate with his friends or classmates. This can be attributed to the fact that you only need to press the ‘push-to-talk’ button and start talking immediately. This means that you don’t have to spend time dialing the right number.
  • Another obvious benefit of Motorola digital radios and others is the fact that you do not have to spend a considerable sum for availing data plans. Communication is free of cost on these devices and hence, when you use them in your workplace, you get to cut down on costs and yet, increase the efficiency of your workforce/staff. This is how these radios give you maximum returns on your investment.
  • Various industries, institutions, businesses and organizations make use of these devices. For instance, you can see them being used by security personnel, supermarket and mall staff, taxi drivers and even by students for various purposes.

The truth is, there are so many uses for this equipment there is not enough space to post it all here.  If you have ideas which are different or unique, let us know.

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Atlantic City Fighting to Come Back!

Atlantic City, in New Jersey, is currently undergoing a $100 million makeover in an effort to revitalize and spruce up the Boardwalk by focusing on entertainment attractions beyond gambling, according to The New York Times.

The Atlantic City Alliance and the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority are partnering up on DO AC, touted as the biggest marketing campaign focused solely on tourism in the city’s history. The main target of the collaboration is to publicize and promote all the various reasons to visit Atlantic City beyond going to a casino.

“Everybody recognizes that the real future of Atlantic City rests in making the pie bigger, not just in cutting up the pie,” Kevin DeSanctis, the chairman and chief executive of the Revel Hotel and Casino Resort, told the news source. “The only way to do that is to figure out a way to add more amenities and more nongaming amenities so this really evolves into a much broader regional destination.”

Some of the planned upgrades and diversification projects include revamping the Steel Pier amusement park, improving the Atlantic City Historical Museum and the Atlantic City Arts Center, public art installations and general cleanup of the beach and boardwalk.

Another possible reason for the decline in tourism to Atlantic City is safety issues related to the negative perception of casinos and gambling patrons. To combat this, hotel employees could increase their vigilance and help visitors feel safer by using Motorola two-way radios. Seeing hotel employees and security guards using Motorola CP200 radios will add a sense of security and reassurance to guests. Its compact design creates a professionalism that belies its powerful audio functions and range. An earpiece allows for convenient usage while further promoting a sense of authority.

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