No problem. The belt clip breaks very easily.
Jim Hedderick
Houston Region
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Cezanne <oblique@alum.mit.edu>
To: Team.Net <autox@autox.team.net>
Date: Saturday, October 14, 2000 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: 2-way radios
>>4) We borrowed a trick from you guys there in Houston. We WEAR our
>>radios on a lanyard around our neck. You take a regular lanyard,
>>remove the hook, and replace it with a key ring. Then you take the
>>radio's belt clip and hook it through the key ring.
>
>As a former Nationally licensed road racing flagger, this gives me
>the willies. Yeah, it is very, very, unlikely at an autocross that
>you will be wearing the radio and responding to a car, but if you do,
>say to push start a stalled Mod car, and it starts and takes the
>radio with it caught on something, down you go, potentially dragging.
>
>Put a break away in the lanyard. For my whistle, I just used Velcro.
>For something like a radio, just use a mini headphone jack. Knot
>the cord and put it inside the plastic part.
>
>pZ -- Paul Cezanne (formerly Czarnecki)
>
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