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Pre-takeoff checklist
This place is LOADED with tech wizzes, so thought I'd come here looking for some non-aviation help. I have a team that uses walkie talkies in the plant (and it is noisy). I need a way to dial into meetings on the shop floor remotely and communicate with the team. This is a series of structured meetings where multiple people communicate over the walkie talkie. It is at a fixed time so I can "dial in" and don't need to be able to contact people at random times.
In a perfect world, I'd just link the AUX on the phone to a walkie then I could dial that cell phone and then could hear what is broadcast (through the walkie talkie then over the cell phone to me). Problem is I don't know how the push to talk would work. Seems with this arrangement, either I'll have my mic live and step on everyone else, or I'll have no way to communicate. I think getting audio out is pretty straight forward, just don't know how to communicate to the team since no way to use PTT over the phone.
I see these new POC phone/radios which conceptually seem good, but I want to be able to talk with over a dozen people on normal walkie talkies and it looks like POCs are just POC-to-POC and don't work with "local" walkie talkies.
Seems like a straight forward ask so assuming I'm over thinking this and some may be able to point me in the right way.
Suggestions please.
In a perfect world, I'd just link the AUX on the phone to a walkie then I could dial that cell phone and then could hear what is broadcast (through the walkie talkie then over the cell phone to me). Problem is I don't know how the push to talk would work. Seems with this arrangement, either I'll have my mic live and step on everyone else, or I'll have no way to communicate. I think getting audio out is pretty straight forward, just don't know how to communicate to the team since no way to use PTT over the phone.
I see these new POC phone/radios which conceptually seem good, but I want to be able to talk with over a dozen people on normal walkie talkies and it looks like POCs are just POC-to-POC and don't work with "local" walkie talkies.
Seems like a straight forward ask so assuming I'm over thinking this and some may be able to point me in the right way.
Suggestions please.