Hi Chris. Which set of headphones is this you are describing? are they still for sale? If so, could you email me as I am definitely interested. My email address is gpage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Regards Graham ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christine Weetman" <goatmum@xxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 9:01 PM 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 ----- 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. 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