OK Pete, the first thing to do is
take the clippable (which, according to my spellchecker isn’t a word, but bear
with me anyway) microphone and attach it somewhere on your person where it can
pick up your voice without too much difficulty (a tie would be a great place).
Pete’s question may seem obvious,
but it is actually a perfectly reasonable thing to ask. Besides, Pete’s email
was long, detailed and impeccably polite. I like Pete. I dig Pete (HUR HUR HUR
– Sorry Pete, that one couldn’t be helped).
Anyway, Pete wanted a step-by-step
guide to putting on a radio earpiece. It is actually ridiculously easy to get
tangled up in the wires (which, as I told one curious soul back in March last
year, has something to do with the randomness of the universe). In any
instance, I decided that others might have experienced the same problems as
Pete, so I thought it best to acquiesce and write this guide.
Next, attach the earpiece to your
ear. It goes on the same way your headphones do, you may have to toggle it
until it is comfortable, but that’s all part of the fun! Put it through your
shirt so you don’t have cables hanging out everywhere.
At this point, you might as well
turn the radio on. It’ll be easier to do now than when it is clipped to the
back of your belt.
Then, you take the remaining piece
of wire (the bit dangling down from the clippable mic) and loop it through your
shirt so that it comes out of the back. You then take the radio itself, slap
the plug into it and attach the radio to your belt behind you (or wherever you
plan on attaching it).
To operate the radio, you have to
use the PTT (Push To Talk) function on the mic. You do this by simply pushing
the button and talking.
In most cases, the other radio
functions (whatever they may be) will have to be performed after removing the
radio from your belt (unless, of course, you happen to be some kind of
contortionist, in which case: go nuts with different body combinations and
freak random people out as you go).
I hope that answered your question,
Pete. Have fun using your radio!
