good headset for Cobra FRS

[Talyn]

I'v recently purchased a Cobra microTALK PR245.
It's a decent radio and i want to get a decent headset for it without paying 'professional' amounts of money.

It has only the one 2.5mm jack and plugging in any headset with a 2.5mm pin - like for your cordless at home or cellphone- seems to activate the microphone permenantly, transmitting continuously. abviously this is a problem.

besides the obvious solution of adding a ptt inline on the wire which can be difficult to find when in gear and tricky to operate with gloves, or while needing both your hand.

Is there a good headset to get off the shelf? like from Cobra or Motorolla, or some other place? for a reasonable amount - we're talking 30-40$.
Or will it be plain better to mcguyver a ptt where its convinient for the wearer, for example extended to clip on the sleeve or wrist etc.

Thanks

[INCURSORI]

Cheap and Easy McGyver Style PTT for most FRS radios

Get some duct tape (every airsofter should have this in his kit) and a dome fastener still attached to some webbing, like the strap from a knife sheath or something.

Now tape the strap end below the PTT button on the radio and align the dome fastener with the PTT, drop it in a pocket or BHI strobe pouch and you have a quick and dirty PTT system that won't push all your other buttons when you use it.

Marco P.

[Talyn]

Yea, i guess home made is the best....
i also noticed the the pin connections are reversed.. when you put a regular phone headset into a an FRS the earpiece becomes the mic and the microphone..well it doesnt really do anything since you can't stop transmitting... why is that? just so that people will buy mroe stuff?

[SINN]

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