Motorola Tetra Earpiece: Helping You Get Through the Toughest Challenges

For many decades, Motorola MTP and MTH radios have been meeting the needs of front line personnel such fire fighters, police officers, oil rig workers, and many more. Reliable, efficient, and high quality communication devices are important for these front line service men to make smarter and safer decisions and to ensure the best possible outcomes in performing their jobs. In many instances, the right accessories, such as an earpiece, will help the radio work beyond its limits, especially when faced with tough challenges in the most difficult situations.

Importance of Motorola Tetra audio accessories

Earpieces for Motorola MTP and MTH radios are especially designed to provide dedicated solutions to enhance the radio communication capabilities. They are designed to allow the users to seamlessly connect and communicate without a glitch during any crisis, heightening the levels of public safety. With effective communication, industrial teams can respond more effectively. The reliability of the portable communication radios can make a difference between a mediocre and a successful outcome. 

The earpiece is a unique way of personalizing the radio to help the users face the arduous challenges of the work environment. As every situation requires specific response, choosing the right earpiece is an effective and dedicated solution that will match various communication needs. It is an important radio accessory that will help facilitate timely and effective communication while paramedics are attending a traffic accident, as engineers are responding to an industrial emergency, or as police officers are trailing a suspect.

Choosing efficient radio earpieces 

High quality Motorola Tetra earpiece is among the top choice for emergency and security services because of a number of excellent features, including:

·         Improves sound quality in windy or noisy environments through the unique wind porting and noise-reduction technology

·         Allows users to make emergency alerts when faced with difficulties

·         Designed to stay connected to the radio during extreme conditions

·         Highly-sensitive and powerful to keep communications clear and audible

·         Provides the highest levels of security

Top 5 Radio Earpiece from Motorola Tetra

The following items are five of the highly coveted radio earpieces.

1. Motorola Tetra G-Shape Earpiece for MTP and MTH Radio

This G-Shape earpiece is a practical solution for two-way radio users who want to keep private communication. It is made of a rubberized material to provide more comfort. This radio earpiece is one of the favorite accessory of police officers and other emergency services because it is designed to perform well, even in the noisiest environments. It comes with a hidden microphone at the center of the Push-to-Talk switch; hence, it can be discretely clipped to the lapel or collar. 

2. Motorola Tetra D-Shape Earpiece for MTH and MTP Radio

This general purpose D-Shaped earpiece is popular among a wide range of application. It is ideal for users who are not comfortable wearing covert acoustic tube ear buds. It is most popular among doormen as it can be easily clipped to the collar or lapel, with a hidden microphone, complete with a PTT switch. This D-shape earpiece offers efficiency, reliability, and top performance even in noisy environments.

3. Covert Acoustic Tube Earpiece for Motorola Tetra MTP and MTH 

This clear tube earpiece comes with built-in line microphone, making it ideal for security door supervisors, police officers, nightclub bouncers, paintball players, hotel security, and many more. This hands-free radio earpiece can be clipped onto the shirt, providing discreet and easy means ofcommunication, whether in hospitality, retail, or security industry. It comes with a noise-reducing feature to improve sound quality, especially in a low profile environment.

4. Pro-HD Kevlar Earpiece for Motorola Tetra MTH and MTP Radio

This excellent earpiece is fitted with high quality Kevlar cabling and strain relief system, making it one of the best professional earpieces. This radio earpiece is ideal for security officers and door supervisor because it is designed to seal the ear canal, so users can freely communicate without interruption from the noise around. It also comes with a high-impact, built-in, polycarbonate microphone that provides exceptional sound quality.

5. Motorola Tetra Airwave Earpiece for MTP and MTH Radio

This earpiece is guaranteed to last because it is made from high-quality rubberized materials. It is ergonomically designed to provide comfort and convenience. This earpiece is common among doormen, security officers, and police officers because they are equipped with built-in microphone, which is designed to provide impressive performance even in the loudest environments.

Having an efficient earpiece connected to a portable radio can help users focus on the important job at hand. A lightweight radio earpiece allows users to talk freely and hear clearly even while they are working. It also offers added efficiency, comfort, and functionality in varying situations and challenges. During the toughest situations, the best possible audio quality is essential to keep communications loud and clear. 

Launch of Motorola Connector Website

This month we are proud to announce the opening of the Motorola connector resource site, Motorolaearpiece.co.uk is the best resource for all types of Motorola earpieces and connectors. With advice and news of the latest connectors and earpiece styles, motorolaearpiece.co.uk is there for you and your questions. Currently with 7 connectors in circulation for an even larger range of radios, finding the correct connector and earpiece for the radio you're using can be difficult, and that is the reason that the website was created.

Motorola started in the early 90's with the GP300 series radios and the 2-pin configuration, of a 2.5mm plug and a 3.5mm plug with a 8mm distance between the pins. this method worked really well and was copied by many other companies and used on their radio. This connector was carried on for the CP040 radio, brought into circulation in 2005.

In the late 90's, the GP340 was brought onto the market. A re-mastering of the multi-pin connector seen on the GP900 and this allowed for a new wave of earpieces. instead of the TX and RX mono style 2-pin connector, the multi-pin allowed for faster programming, VOX control, TX and RX control as well as future proofing for any future accessories.

Using the GP340 model, this inspired Motorola to use a multi-pin connector for all their future radios. When the digital generation came along in the late 2000's, Motorola created the DP3000 range of radios, that included the DP3400 and DP3600 radio. Instead of using the already widely used GP340 sstyle connector, a newly designed connector was created, primarily to create a new range of earpieces for themselves.  Recently Motorola have created the DP2000 range of radios, with another new connector, this increases the confusion of the user, expecting one earpiece to work on all Motorola radios, instead they have a complicated mix of connectors to choose from and select for their radio.

With 3 other connectors available for the Motorola radio portfolio, including the MTH/MTP connector, used mostly on the Tetra radios, the new SL4000 connector, for the slim line mobile phone style radios and the similar, but not interchangeable leisure range single pin connector.

As we have shown above Motorola have a wide range of motorola connectors and earpieces, This new website is designed to guide and assist those people that are confused which earpiece and connector they need for their radio. Motorolaearpiece.co.uk has information that no other website has, providing a connection chart to match the radio your using with the correct connector and some example earpieces from around the internet.

Can you watch films on the apple ipad mini?

Commonly, the apple ipad Mini is ok for viewing movies (as well as doing basically everything else). The processing power is about the same as a apple ipad 4, so there is no real difficulty there and the playback is usually as easy just as one android’s bottom (Star Trek joke).

The only real concern with the iPad Mini may be the lack of a ‘Retina Display’, the stunning display tech featured on apple ipad 3 – 4, iPod Touch (4th – 5th Gen) and iPhone 4 – 5 (among the rest). The apple ipad Mini does suffer a little with the deficit of a Retina Screen, however it’s probably not a problem.

There is, evidently, the matter of that 16GB apple ipad Mini struggling to store information, however, but that’s mostly common sense

Gareth Beavis, in the authorized ‘TechRadar.com’ appraisal of the Ipad mini, said:

“The iPad mini suffers from the same thing that all the other iPads do: namely that the 16GB version, which is the poster child of the new cut-size range, is too small to really pack with the movies and apps that you want”.

 He followed on to talk about the iPad Mini’s lack of file compatibility. This is, as far as I’m concerned, the Mini’s largest disadvantage as the media tablet.

“There’s the other issue here: the lack of file compatibility. The iPad mini will play .mp4 files fairly easily, but if you fancy chucking on a DivX or AVI option then that’s out of the question. There are third party applications you can use, but these can be extremely buggy and cost extra to put on your tablet…But that’s the griping out of the way – as a video player, the iPad mini is excellent. It’s just the right size and weight to hold two-handed in landscape mode, and if you’re OK with it not feeling as secure in one hand, a decent heft to hold with a single set of digits”.

 I feel that Beavis provides a pretty good rundown of the positives and negatives.

In a different place, the Head of Tech on the Daily Telegraph, Shane Richmond, addressed the smaller screen size in the review, when he wrote,

“In practice the smaller screen size is not much of a problem and it is because of that 0.9-inches, which gives 35 per cent more screen area than the Nexus 7 or Kindle Fire HD”.

Additionally, the 7″ size in fact makes the apple ipad Mini easier to hold when watching a film; the device really uses its petite stature for a bonus. Moreover, the screen remains to be above sufficient. Devindra Hardawar, of ‘Venture Beat.com’, wrote,

“Movies and games don’t look as sharp as they do on Retina Display-equipped iPads, but it’s a more than worthy tradeoff. It takes a discerning eye to notice the benefits of Apple’s Retina Display, but anyone can immediately recognize how much more convenient the iPad mini is. (And naturally, that’s a problem that will be fixed in future models when Apple brings Retina Display quality to the iPad Mini.)”

All things measured, the apple ipad Mini is ok for watching films, but I personally recommend you opt for the tablet with additional storage space (and also that you keep in mind the file type limitations of that iPad Mini).

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The bone conducting earpiece, what makes it unique to other earpieces

Music is a big part of daily life but it may be for nearly as long as Humans have now been on this planet. I often point to a finding of the 40,000-year-old flute dating back to the ice age as evidence for this, but in fact, all of the proof you need is all around you, each day. We remember ballads and songs long after the people who 1st composed them have died and rotted away (a thought which I find curiously reassuring) and the music industry, love it or hate it, is always a huge business.

On the other hand, while the ice age musicians probably survived during a world of stark violence, frozen, dull wastelands and tough, ‘kill or be killed’ inter-cave politics, they never had to cope with road works, transport lorries, screaming babies or drunken crowd-rousers on their way to the stag night. Lucky buggers.

Today’s listener has to deal with all that and much more, which can make listening to the music not only difficult, but additionally dangerous.

Now, though, modern science has stumbled across a means in which you’ll be able to still listen to your favorite songs, even if you’re wearing earplugs (no, I have not been sniffing discarded paint cans once more). It’s called skeleton conduction tech and no, despite the marginally odd name, it actually doesn’t hurt…

According to recent studies, exposure to any noise over 100 decibels wears away a membrane known as a myelin sheath and leaves your internal ear liable to problems like tinnitus and temporary deafness, that may be the start of even more important problems. Bone conduction technology is made to bypass the most sensitive portions of the ear and reduce the risk of inner-ear harm.

How? Well, in order to understand that, we need to first identify with how our ears truly work. (HERE COMES THE SCIENCE-Y BIT) Essentially, noise travels though the air, these sound waves are intercepted by several structures inside the ear and are ultimately translated and transmitted into our brains (if it helps, imagine it like the encoding/decoding of digital information, like that which guides the actions of the wireless mouse).

The sound waves first encounter a piece of cartilage (yes, similar stuff that a shark’s skeleton is made of), which allows to focus the sound, this is named a pinna (but you can call it your outer ear without appearing too silly). 

Then, the sound waves pass into your middle ear, this is filled up with air and also contains both your auditory canal plus your eardrum (my little brother burst his when he was little and virtually burst mine crying about it). The eardrum vibrates, passing the sound through to a ossicles, which are three small bones (that are in fact pretty essential to your sense of steadiness, I’m told). These tiny bones transmit the sound to the cochlea, that’s a fluid-filled infrastructure that ‘encodes’ the signals for our brain to ‘decode’.

Bone conduction tech vibrates the bones of the skull, sending the noise directly to a cochlea and bypassing the rest of the ear entirely. The nerve impulses transmitted to the mind are exactly the same, but the sensitive instrument of the ear doesn’t have to deal with the hassle of, to quote Anchorman’s Brick Tamland “LOUD NOISES!”

This process seems to be totally safe; actually, the legendary deaf composer Beethoven applied a rudimentary version of this method to be able to create his most famous works. He attached a rod linking his piano and his head and, as such, was able to hear the music he was playing.

So here you go, rather then exposing your sensitive ears to louder and louder volumes, to drown out the environment noise, it is possible to alternativily stick your earpugs in and play your music at the proper volume. Make no bones about it (groan!)

Does Wearing Headphones Increase the Amount of Bacteria in your Ears?

So, the short answer to your question is that anything you put in your ear will increase the bacteria levels present, simply by sheer dint of the introduction of a foreign object to your ear. You can consider this to also be true for cotton buds, earplugs and, of course, your index finger. Microorganisms tend to reproduce well in hot and humid environments and the ear, like the mouth and nose, certainly have all the right conditions for a germ-orgy of sorts (sorry for the image).

It has been said that using headphones increases the bacteria levels in your ears over 700 times.

To whatever degree this somewhat alarming statistic is true or false is, quite frankly, virtually impossible to determine. Put simply, there are just too many variables in the equation. Issues arise like ‘how many other people have used the headphones (are they shared devices like audio museum tours)?’ ‘How much bacteria is in the average person’s ear in the first place?’ or even ‘where are the headphones stored when not in use?’

All of these questions (and many, many more) would need satisfactory answers before we could start picking our way toward a definitive answer. According to our old friend Cecil Adams of www.straightdope.com, the ‘700 times’ factoid has its origins in a 1992 study in which experts measured bacteria found on 20 headsets of the type used by commercial airlines. According to Adams, the amount of microorganisms present on the ‘phones increased by 11 times, not 700 (as is often reported). A year later, the New York Times ran an article that is, according to Adams, the root of the old ‘700 times’ bit.

However, it should also be said that many different kinds of bacteria are vital to living organisms like us and, at any given time, there is an almost indescribably huge level of bacteria operating in your body. Yes, there is an increase in your in-ear bacteria if you use headphones, but it’s really not much different from the bacteria levels you encounter in your day-to-day life.

You may worry that this increase in bacteria can be damaging to your health (that is, after all, a reasonable concern). However, unless you suffer from regular ear infections, or any other easily aggravated ear-related ailments, the answer is a pretty definitive ‘no’.

Maybe if you dangle your headphones in the toilet before use, or get a flu-riddled relative to cough on them, you may have some trouble, but otherwise, the content of your ear is likely to be far more bacteria-friendly than the contents of your pockets (where the headphones are usually kept before use – if I’m any guide, that is).

The PD782, PD785 & PD702 Hytera Radios, what makes them so good?

The PD782, PD785 and PD702 Hytera radios are affordable, as well as being easy to use and providing high quality audio. This is a good combination when it comes to two-way radios, a technology that, by definition, needs to be durable, easily replaceable and effortlessly useable in case of emergency.

The parent company, Hytera, have been operating since 1993 and in that time they have developed a strong reputation as an industry leader. In short, they are in the process of cultivating a trusted international brand. Hytera are an emerging brand with a considerable track record for producing quality technology at premium prices.

Another likely source of Hytera’s recent success is the effectiveness of the Hytera earpiece available from earpieceonline. The Hytera multi-pin earpiece is designed for use with the PD702 and PD782 radio models. It features excellent playback, as well as being solid and durable. This Hytera earpiece is available for around £40.00 and is a professional level model, proving highly effective for many modern surveillance exercises.

Returning to the two-way radio discussion, Hytera radios include a number of advanced features, including a robust design, as well as a full colour LCD display, something that is a rarity in today’s market. There are also a high number of messaging options.

The PD785 is IP57 rated. This means that it can even be completely submerged for up to 30 minutes without obtaining any significant damage. It can also switch between analogue and digital mode and features full digital encryption.

Hytera have received a boost in sales because they have created a series of products that are up-to-date, hardwearing and professional. Two-way radios need to be reliable as a matter of fact, which is why these products are selling so well. 

REVIEW OF THE MOTOROLA DP2400

A two-way radio has to be able to work quickly and efficiently. It has to be simple to use, robustly designed and multi-faceted enough to appeal to a variety of users. Fortunately, Motorola are very, very good at fulfilling these criteria. So, with that in mind, we put the DP 2400 through its paces.

THE SPECS

The clarity of digital audio is undeniable. But if you still prefer analogue, then don’t despair. The DP 2400 is completely comfortable handling both analogue and digital signals.

But there’s a lot more it can do besides that.

The DP 2400 can even use its ‘IP Site Connect’ function to expand the capability of the device via the Internet. In addition, the ‘capacity plus’ function can use a single-site trunking system to enable over a thousand voice or data transfer-users without adding any new frequencies. It can even use an (optional) ‘linked capacity plus’ feature (a multi-site version of the ‘capacity plus’ function) that works in tandem with the IP functionality to ensure even broader fields of communication over greater distances.

There’s even an enhanced security function.

The Motorola DP 2400 comes in both VHF and UHF forms.

THE PRICE

At £284, this is a reasonably priced, yet high spec, device. With the release of the 3400, we can reasonably expect the price to drop a little more as well soon, but probably not by an incredible amount, as both models do seems to specialize in slightly different areas.

Overall, it does look like Motorola are offering a good radio-based product for your money, yet again.

THE PERFORMANCE

The design is hardy and utilitarian; this is the sort of two-way radio a security guard or professional soldier might use. Its tough, square edged and no-nonsense, but it still looks modern and professional. On top of this, the Motorola DP2400’s ease of use makes the simplicity of the design a perfect marriage of model and operation.

As with most of Motorola’s designs, the DP 2400 is a tough little doohickey. The bodywork is so tightly sealed, in fact, that it is almost completely dust and sand proof and has a water protection rating of IP55 (that means you can use it in the rain, but you probably can’t take it snorkelling).

The audio performance of the DP 2400 is nothing short of spectacular. It even adjusts the levels to compensate for background noise automatically.

In fact, so high performance is this radio, that it actually meets US military standard 810 C D E F and G.

The only negative we could find was that the design was slightly bulky and the battery was a little heavy, however, the battery life is so good that we really don’t mind. Besides, it’s reassuring to be absolutely sure that you aren’t about to lose the product (you’d soon notice if you dropped it).

As an optional extra, you can even get a function that will interrupt an existing signal in order to deliver critical information without waiting for a line to close/open.

THE VERDICT

It really does seem as if Motorola have thought of everything this time around. What we’ve got here is a two-way radio that is pretty close to perfection. It seems to do anything you could possibly want it to and, when ‘pimped out’ with all the optional extras, it will surely do a lot more besides.

There aren’t really any downsides with this product, it works extremely well, is pretty much top of the line in its price range and is bang up to date technologically. What more can you ask for?