Melv wrote:
Whenever I have been in town and an officer has been using an airwave
radio
he/she always appears to be struggling to hear what is being said.
With the
old analogue motorolas they always were belting out the audio so
everyone
could hear.

I have no experience with the Sepura you mention, but certainly the
Nokia's are awful when it comes to clarity. That's clarity from the
radio itself, rather than blaming poor signal/too much contention on
the talkgroup/aerial site. The Nokia's have volume which goes from 0
(speakers off) to 10 (blown speaker). However the trouble is if the
volume is set to 4, you can't hear it with even minor background noise,
and if set to 5 or above which is ideally where it needs to be, then it
is so distorted you can't make out what is being said anyway. The
speaker size when compared to the old Motorola bricks (and no doubt the
quality thereof), is **** poor. Nokia make good mobiles. That is what
they should stick to; Their radios are crap.

Headsets have been distributed to us, but they are *worse* than the
ones you get free with your average Nokia cellphone. One knock and the
microphone becomes disloged inside the casing and the end result when
transmitting is it sounds like you have your head up your arse. A far
better device would be an attachable parrot just like in the old days!
Better quality speaker, better quality microphone, nice big PTT button
and still the option of an in-ear piece.

A.