[access-uk] Re: Wireless headphones
- From: "Christopher Hallsworth" <chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:44:07 +0000
I'm not Christine, but the make is Arkon. Hope that helps.
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 23:16:27 -0000, "Mike Cassidy"
<mike.cassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> Hi Christine,
>
> What make are these, and how much? They sound very useful.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> =
> Of
> Christine Weetman
> Sent: 28 November 2006 21:02
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Wireless headphones
>
>
> Hi Chris, the head phones are FM which you can hear all around your =
> house
> and down the garden too, but the Infrered can only pick up in the same =
> room
> And if you are in line with the beam, not good.
>
> How they work is:
> As I said the headphones are completely without wires. They run off two
> rechargable penlight batteries which can be replaced after 2/3 years. =
> They
> charge whilst in the headphones, read on for how.
>
> In the box there is a small base unit (about the size of a telephone =
> handset
> base. This you plug into a mains socket, You need to have a Small =
> arial
> screwed in to it, which is supplied and about 3 inches long.
>
> Now we take the cable supplied and plug one end of it into the base and =
> the
> other into the headphone socket of whatever you want to listen to, beit =
> your
> daisy player, radio, cassette, CD or computer.
>
> Your set up now, so you fit the headphones on to your head. There is a
> braille letter L on the lefthand sid and R for right. One side has two
> wheels, one for tuning into your base units station (for want of a =
> better
> word) and the other is your volume controle. If you loose the channel =
> you
> will use the tuning wheel on there, but if your outdoors and can't ajust
> satisfactorily then go indoors and you will find a small wheel on the =
> base
> to turn which will find you another channel. We live in a bunglow by =
> the
> seaside so our interferance is quite bad for cordless telephones, but I =
> have
> Never had trouble with the headphones my daughter and I use. Our =
> bunglow is
> 30 foot from one end to the other and our garden that again and still we
> have sat outdoors using our headphone set.
>
> I put my hearing aid on the middle setting which is known as the T and =
> away
> I go, just like being in a Fantastic Theatre, I wouldn't be without =
> them.
> Trouble is I have bought 4 of these now one for of these, one for my
> daughter as she kept breaking her wired headphones, and she still has =
> them a
> year later with no trouble at all, one for myself, my son and a spare =
> one
> for when my daughters busts. Son didn't open his as he said he didn't =
> like
> headphones that didn't go in your ears and the other "Spare Pair" don't =
> seem
> to be needed! lol This is why I was offering them for sale, but I won't
> sell to anyone who has doubts because I think they are Fantastic.
>
> Hope this helps, o forgot to say, coming from the base unit is a coily =
> short
> cable which is fitted and not removable so you can't mix the cables up, =
> the
> plug on this goes into the socket on your headphones and charges them. =
> You
> put them on charge for 24 hours the first time but after that only 2 =
> hours
> will give you hours of listening.
>
> Christine W, in Answer to your doubts and questions. ----- Original =
> Message
> -----=20
> From: "Christopher Hallsworth" <chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 8:15 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Wireless headphones
>
>
> Hi all,
> From a blind person's point of view, can someone thoroughly explain to =
> me
> how wireless headphones work? I know they work by either RF or IR, but =
> like
> to know How does the transmitter work, including whether they work on
> batteries or plugged in? Also, are they suitable to use for visually
> impaired people, and possibly people with some manual dexterity issues?
> Someone called Christine W is going to research some wireless headphones
> she's got, which I've took great interest in, since obviously there's no
> cables to tread on, but the other reason being is that I have moderate
> hearing loss and apparently they're suitable for people with that degree
> =
> of
> deafness. Thanks, and I look forward to hearing from you. Christopher
> Hallsworth Skype name chrishallsworth7266
>
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