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. 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