NEW Sentinel headset for Kenwood multipin radios

We have recently introduced our Sentinel-K2 earpiece headset for Kenwood Multipin radios.
It has a large PTT with microphone for high noise environments, the same as on our Centurion 2 wire models. But in other aspects is the same as our BG range, which have sold over 3000 models to British and European Police forces, fire services, ambulance services, councils and security personnel.
It has Kevlar cables, and has a one year no quibble warranty. Here is the full specification:


Fits all Kenwood multipin radios (see list below). As used by prison service, doormen etc
Kevlar Cable
Bigger front facing PTT microphone
Reduced cabling
Acoustic tube earpiece
 1 YEAR no quibble warranty.
A coiled wire leaves the radio and goes to a large, water-resistant, push to talk and microphone which is designed to perform well in the loudest atmospheres. The second wire goes from the mic/PTT unit to a discreet clear coiled tube earpiece. With this earpiece you can talk into your radio at a conversational tone and have crystal clear communication even if you can't hear yourself talk!

This unit uses Kevlar reinforced wiring and top quality strain reliefs which withstand a breaking force of up to 20kg, so it will survive in even the roughest work environment.

WARRANTY
If you break this headset, including damage caused during work, within 1 year and return to to us we will replace it.


Kenwood multipin plug: TK190, TK2140, TK280, TK290, TK3140, TK3160, TK3170, TK3180, TK380, TK390, TK480, TK481, NX200, NX300, TK2180

Please call us on +44 (0) 1689 876620 or email bruce@showcomms.co.uk for more details

Reverb 2010

Every year Stratford upon Avon College HND Media students put on a massive one hour music show. Being held at Stratford Civic Hall, this year promises to be bigger and better than ever before.
Showcomms have donated radio comms with Otto eardefenders for Reverb 2010, which takes place next Wednesday, 26 May.
This year brings a whole new edge to the show as for the first time it'll be streamed LIVE, including here on the Showcomms blog.

Theatre comms starter system: Under £1000 including VAT!

Get in fast before the VAT increase.
We are listing a 4 way Theatre system with Tecpro power supply, Altair beltpacks and ASL headsets for under £1000 including VAT! Take a look here http://snipurl.com/theatrecomms


It is still a valid offer we have manged to keep th e price to below  £1000 dated 5th December 2012

BBC Election coverage communicates with Showcomms

The excitement of the election coverage on the BBC over the past few weeks has seen Showcomms supply Prolink Outside Broadcasts with walkie talkies and base stations for coverage at College Green, Westminster (some great pictures here), and at the London Eye. This included arranging licensing with JFMG (not an easy job with all the radio activity in the area), and arranging an extension for College Green for the period while coalition negotiations took place.
In addition BBC Northern Ireland hired two 4 way Altair wireless systems off us for their Election

More spare parts - this time from Telex

We are pleased to announce that we are now official dealers for Telex spare parts, including RTS parts.

We try to keep a reasonable number of items in stock, but give time can get just about any parts.

Guns and Tackle Trophy

We have donated a pair of custom camouflage sided Peltor Sportac Ear Defenders for the Guns and Tackle Trophy - English Sporting Championships at Southdown Sporting Gun Club tomorrow.
More information on the website of the Greater London branch of the Clay Pigeon Shooting Association.

UPDATE: The winner of the Sporttacs was veterans winner Allan Flight. Allan is pictured holding his new pair of ear defenders.

HP450s for St James Facilities/Jarrolds

Some time back we supplied some Alan HP450 radios to St James Facilities/Jarrolds in Norwich.
These were originally supplied in PMR446 mode, but to get higher power and thus greater coverage across Norwich, St James obtained a licence and we were able to reprogramme the radios onto licensed frequencies.
The Alan HP450 is unique in our experience in being so adaptable at such a low price.

WE CAN ONLY PROGRAMME LICENSED IN FREQUENCIES ON SEEING THE APPLICANTS LICENCE!

Little Theatre Guild of Great Britain Conference

Bruce and Duncan made the short trip to the Miller Centre Theatre in Caterham today to attend the Little Theatre Guild of Britain Conference today, exhibiting Tecpo wired intercom, Altair Wireless intercom, Alan HP450 radios and our Motorola radio hire kit.
We are pleased to be exhibiting at events such ast the Little Theatre Guild (LTG) conference and the Schools Theatre Support Group (STSG) Conference - giving a support to the smaller theatres on a tighter budget.

HOSDB

Bruce has been at the Home Office Scientific Branch Exhibition (HOSDB) for the past few days. He was joined by the owner of our US headset manufacturer for our BG, Centurion, MSG and Tetra ranges for police, security and other emergency services.
In adition to headsets Bruce was exhibiting the FriskerPro hand or wrist worn metal detector and a range of other items including Tecpro and Peltor items.

Put the wood in the hole Bruce!

In the second stage of the slow taking over the empire by Showcomms, well our small office expansion, Bruce leant a hand to the positioning of a huge heavy oak door frame yesterday.

The nieghbouring room used to be our store/workshop. This has moved one unit down, and the original store/workshop is becoming a demonstration, meetin and training area.

At the moment it is causing a bit of disruption to the office (and a fair bit of cold air!).
The picture is taken from the office into where the new room is being fitted, Bruce (left) is helping to lift the door frame into hole that has magically appeared!

Astrid user days

Bruce will be exhibiting our Tetra headsets and accessories at the Astrid User Days in Brussels on 20 & 21 May.

Visit ASTRID User Days 2010, the two-day conference where you can learn about the very latest ASTRID network and TETRA developments.

Kom naar de Astrid User Days, het tweedaags congres waar u kennis maakt met de recente evolutie van het ASTRID-netwerk.

Bienvenue aux ASTRID User Days, un congrès de deux jours au cours duquel vous découvrirez les dernières évolutions du réseau ASTRID.

Showcomms gives you wings

It isn't usual to blog about hiring somebody just three headsets, but this one is just a little different and shows how we will go that extra mile to get a client out of trouble.
Last week we sent three DT108 headsets for use at the Red Bull Music Academy by Pulse Films.
Unfortunately, when they arrived they discovered a small error meant they had asked for male instead of female plugs, any easy mistake.
Bruce was going to be in the London Bridge area today, so decided to drop off some replacements himself this morning.
However we normally supply ASL headsets with female plugs, and Pulse wanted the extra noise exclusion of the DT108s. Our DT108s are fitted with male plugs for cameras and RTS, not female plugs.
Never mind, on Saturday Bruce got three bare ended DT108 cables out of our sales stock and fitted the right plugs to take up this morning and swap the cables.
This also means we can supply a few of our DT108s in future to use on ASL/Tecpro/Altair/Clearcom/Stonewood systems which require 4 pin female XLRs on the headsets.

Bristol Fairwear Fashion Show

Sounds Commercial have been using a couple of our Duplex wireless kits at the Bristol Fairwear Fashion Show

at Bristol Cathedral. They used our Telex BTR24 Standalone Duplex beltpack system, and one of our Altair wireless 4 way Duplex kits.
The really clever bit is they were coupled together with a single XLR cable to make a seem less 6 way system!

Sounds Commercial have had a busy week with us this week, our other Altair system is also with them working at another event in West London.

New Dual Channel Duplex Wireless Theatre System for Baylis Court School

We have just supplied the latest Altair dual channel duplex wireless theatre system to Baylis Court School, Slough.

The new Altair WBS-202 wireless base station doubles the capacity of the single channel WBS-200 maintaining full compatibility.

The unit features a complete double channel radio link with a capacity of up to 4 wireless beltpacks per channel, or 8 on a single channel.

Directly compatible with Tecpro, Altair, ASL, Clearcom, Stonewood loop systems.
This really is the unit that many theatres have been looking for to add to their wired intercom.
Bruce and Duncan were demonstrating this unit, alongside Tecpro wired intercom and Motorola CP040 radios at the Schools Theatre Support Group Conference in Rugby at the weekend.

32 pairs of eardefenders to CTV for BAFTAs

Our supplies of camera eardefenders have run out, on top of some other big hires, we have no less than 32 pairs of eardefenders at the BAFTAs for CTV OBs, a mix of double sided Peltors, Double sided Telex PH10s and 1.5 sided Peltors for hand held cameras!

Tour Guide hire price reduction

 We now offer our wireless tour guide system to hire for 4 days at just £6 per channel for up to 60 channels.

All our hire kit is hired out in 4 day blocks. Shipping days are not counted in the hire period!

We also sell Tour Guide systems

Schools Theatre Support Group Conference

Showcomms are joint sponsors of the Schools Theatre Support Group Conference at Rugny School on Saturday 20th February at Rugby School.
We will be holding a workshop, particularly focusing on wireless theatre communications, interfacing with wired systems and other aspects of radio and wireless communications.

Low price on top of the range covert earpiece for Motorola MTH800 MTH650 CEP400 and MTP850 Tetra airwaves radios

For a limited period we have top of the range Centurion headset / earpiece for Motorola Tetra radios at the much reduced price of £23 + VAT and delivery.
This headset features a secured plug with long kevlar lead for either sleeve or lapel worn microphone.. Includes a clear acoustic tube earpiece. The microphone in this headset is a close working mic for use in high noise environments. It is a 2 wire system, this means the cabling splits into 2 at a joiner block with one lead going to the transducer/curly tube to go in your ear and a second cable going to the microphone and Push to Talk switch. This means your radio can be worn under your clothes at waist level, with one cable feeding up to the clear plastic ear tube and the other going down your sleeve to the press to talk button for covert use.
This headset comes with a one year no quibble warranty, including free return postage within the UK
Similar earpieces sell for over £60.

Aladdin will be happy!

Yesterday we received an order for a Beyerdynamic DT100 ear insert.
It arrived with the customer by recorded delivery today, and was up and working in 15 minutes.
As the customer said "Aladdin will be happy", especially given the speed of turnaround between Christmas and the New Year.
We like happy customers
Having said that we are now closed until Monday!
Happy New Year.

Our nice new flightcase labels

Hannah has been busy this week, including sticking our lovely new flightcase labels onto all our hire cases!
Up to now our cases have tended to have a note stuck on them, but now we have our super sticky, won't come off, wipe clean labels with spaces to write all the important details of the job.

The labels came from local Kent firm UPG, and were very reasonably priced!

Big in Belgium!

Back in May we reported that we had supplied 150 BG-THR headsets for the THR880i to Politie Aalst in Belgium.
Sales to Belgium have continued to be strong, and this week we have shipped 100 more BG-THR headsets to AEG TranzCom, Belgium's biggest supplier of Tetra equipment and 70 BG-M9 headsets with bottom connectors for the MTH800 to Politie Maasmechelen. Belgian police officers will clearly be opening lots of little packets from Showcomms for Christmas.

Last night in the jungle

Tonight is the last night in the jungle for I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of here! and it will be the last night in the jungle for our RTS hire kit that forms part of the talkback system on the show for Gearhouse Broadcast... now is it going to be Gino, Kim or Jimmy.

New Tecpro system for St Edmund's School goes straight into use

A new 6 beltpack Tecpro 2 system was delivered to St Edmund's School, Canterbury on Thursday, and within 24 hours it was in use in the school hall, as part of a busy schedule of events.
The system consists of one of our Tecpro 2 Theatre and College starter systems. Plus 2 extra beltpacks and headsets.
We sponsor the Schools Theatre Support Group.

75 radios for Royal Film Premiere

We supplied 75 Motorola Walkie Talkies and headsets to Steve Bonich at Video Europe for the premiere of Peter (Lord of the Rings) Jackson's The Lovely Bones, last night at the Royal Film Performance in the presence of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall at the Odeon Leicester Square.
The radios were used for production and security at the event.

Anyone for Tennis?

This weekend sees the start of the ATP World Tennis Finals at the O2 Arena, and we have supplied
14 RTS beltpacks with headphones, 10 CP040 radios and a base station to the venue for the duration of the 8 day event.

Peltor Dectcom with Tactical XP ear defenders being used by Colas Rail

We are hiring 6 Peltor Dectcom beltpacks, complete with headset mount versions of the Peltor Tactical XP ear defenders with active listening and acoustic awareness to Colas Rail for use by the team operating their RM90 ballast cleaner. This equipment is now part of our hire kit. Two of the beltpacks have push to talk facilities. These beltpacks and headsets supplement their existing system over the next 4 weekends, allowing them to keep the cleaner running on shift changes.
Working around the RM90 is a very high noise environment, with it picking up ballast, processing it and relaying back onto the track and discarding the waste. The crew must have a system that allows clear, safe, communication between them while excluding the noise of the cleaner but maintaining their awareness of what is going on around them.

Ex Demo wireless system ready for interface to Tecpro

We are selling an ex-demo wireless intercom with 2 beltpacks.

This Quail  system comprises of 1 base station, 2 beltpacks, 2 headsets and the drop in 4 way charger.
It is an Ex Demo system, we no longer sell this system it is replaced by the Altair system.
Included in the price are the VMIU Interface which provides an analogue audio input and audio output for connection to external systems such as Tecpro.
Also included is the Tecpro AD903 interface and lead to then get  the communication into and out of Tecpro and similar loop systems.
The Quail system is used by Sainsbury and Fast food chains. It operates at 1.9GHz, away from most DECT phones on 2.4GHz. 
It is full duplex and the beltpacks have 2 mic switches.  Internal (wireless to wireless ) and external (wireless to wireless and wireless to Tecpro) which acts as a on/off mic switch. 
The base station will support up to 6 beltpacks
This Quail system  is ideal for a wireless stage manager or front of house communications in a hall or small theatre interfaced to the house Tecpro or other intercom system.  (the signal willnot pass through walls)  All Full Duplex systems involve a constant carrier transmitter worn on the user.  In the same way body worn radio mics are limited in power output to 10mW, to ensure we dont cook the celebrity over a long period of use,  the same is true for Wireless Beltpacks. As such rule of thumb, coverage is limited to the same as a radio mic range or less! 
The Quail base station has the facility for detachable DECT antennas to help improve coverage. This really assists coverage where the base is located in the bottom of a racked system.
The system will be supplied tested and set for connection to a Tecpro system.
We can supply this also immediately in time for your Xmas production rehearsals. 
The price includes delivery but not installation or a site visit.
Please call Bruce or Duncan for more info 01689 876620

Yours for £1300 + VAT (or £1100 + VAT without AD903 and lead)

Price reduction on ASL headsets

We have reduced the prices on ASL HS1D headsets for Tecpro and other intercom systems. We now list them at only £52. Supplied boxed it is already factory fitted with a 4 pin XLR female plug.
We can also change the plugs in our workshop to XLR4M for RTS beltpacks, XLR5M for CTP talkback, TP120/Nexus for Peltor or just about any other connector...

British Gymnastics World Champion

As Britain's Beth Tweddle won Gold today at the World Gymastics Chamionships at the O2 Arena it was the same Showcomms Jelibox talkback used last month for the C4 Big brother final by Roll to Record that SIS OBs used for crane talback at their coverage for the BBC. Congratulations to Beth!

Earhangers for Aviapartner

Showcomms have provided our MSG-1W-THR earhangers for the EADS Nokia THR880i radio to Aviapartner at Düsseldorf Airport. The popular MSG-1W-THR is similar to the Lowe LEP-190xe-THR but with 1 year no quibble guarantee and off duty carrying pouch.
The Aviapartner Group provides full aircraft handling including handling of passengers, baggage, cargo and mail, maintenance, aircraft cleaning at 31 airports in 5 European countries.