wireless paging

[fonedude]

I have a weird application. I have a forklift operator and a guy who unloads the conveyor belt. I need the guy at the end of the conveyor belt to be able to page the guy in the forklift and tell him to put more steaks on the conveyor. I presently have a normal wired paging system, but the forklift is in a freezer at 0 degrees, and the forklift has a heated cab. With the blowers going and the noise from the forklift and probably some music playing he can't hear pages. Does anyone know of any type of wireless paging equipment. Nextel won't work, tried it. I really don't want to put Police type radios on the lifts. The building is tight. Mostly cell phones don't work anywhere inside.

 

[executone]

Have you tried twoway radios with headsets?
or Wha about resturant style personal pagers?

Good Luck!!

 

[telprog]

Does your telephone system support single line units? You could give them each a cordless and then the guy at the end of the conveyor belt could intercom the forklift and make his cordless ring.

 

[fonedude]

The building is an immense freezer, about 500 thousand square feet, broken up into large rooms. The guy on the lift is probably 600 feet away in another area behind a huge insulated door. Cordless phones don't stand a chance. The operators are gorillas. They destroy everything. I need something durable that can be hard mounted, so that it can't be stolen or vandalized.

 

[Kwick18]

Do not know if it will work but you could consider putting some sort of light inside the room where the forklift is and have the switch at the other end of the conveyor belt.

 

[PhoneGuy2000]

I agree with the personal paging sytem option. You can wire an antenna in the freezer, and give the guy a beeper. A Push of the button will make it vibrate and beep and Presto ... more steaks...

try

http://www.valcom.com

they are a paging system company for the type of system you now have. If there is an app to connect a wireless page device to the cab of the truck, they should know and I have even had them recommend other peoples products if they don't have a solution but know of one...

good luck...

 

[fonedude]

I tried all these options first. It's not my first day in the comm business. Beepers and cordless phones can be stolen and vandalized at will. If a cell phone can't work how can a cordless? I can imagine that this could be a regular requirement in the future. I am still persuing Motorola equipment. Please read all the postings before you respond.

 

[jerryreeve]

You may find that the engeneous single line cordless phones may do the job for you, it has about .980 MW output power and tends to go a lot further than most cordlesss phones, I have gotten one to go ovr a mile LOS (base sta antenna) and across two separate buildings by using the external antenna.

JerryReeve
Communications Systems Int'l
com-sys.com

 

[mikeydidit]

What about installing a external riger. These can be very loud depending upon the one you want. Have the guy at the conveyor dial or lift up handset (automatic ringdown circuit) the call goes to the extension number with the horn as a ringer. I have a couple of these installed in areas with a high niose level and they work great. I had one area that they would tell the supervisors that they could not hear the phone ringing with a small external ringer. So I insatlled a 109db external horn and now they answer just to make the horn quit.


Hope this helps.


Mikey