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I just got the 5.0 and so far so good. Hear is the problem. I work security at a casinoand we wear the ear peice kind of like what you see in the FBI. The clear coil tube that connects to the radio harness. Anyone have any ideas how I can wear my hearing aids and the in the ear radio piece at same time? I’m going to try and use the clip mic and put that by the end where the tube connects. Maybe it will pick up the sound coming out the small speaker that the tube connects to. Please help

I am a firefighter, and have spent quite a bit of effort trying to find the best way to hear a radio. This can be tough!

Here are a couple of ideas.

  • can you hear well enough to use the earpiece in one ear (without the hearing aid) and a hearing aid in the other?

  • if not, you might be able to have an audiologist make a custom earmold that occludes all external sound in one ear ( except the thin tube from the radio). Again, no hearing aid in that ear.

  • you/your employer may be able to get a Bluetooth adapter for the radio that would allow you to connect the radio to a hearing aid streamer. This will depend on the type of hearing aids you have, if the are compatible with a streaming device, etc.

  • if you have a in your hearing aids, you might be able to connect a neck loop to the radio and use one hearing aid in t-coil mode. You would have to investigate the size and style of earpiece jack on the radio for compatibility with a neck loop.

  • I trief several of these solutions, but finally found a better quality speaker mic (than was issued by my dept). This gave me good enough sound quality to hear. But that won’t allow you to listen to the radio silently, i.e., without anyone around you hearing.

  • Good luck!

Drill the side of the mould piece or soft tip with a dremel. Trim a spare dome from your aid down so that only the central portion of it remains. Fit the RIC in the hole in the mould: it should allow you hear both your comms and the sound around you.

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That’s a good idea, to combine the incoming sound into one earpiece. Just be careful pulling them out.

The bluetooth streamer thing might not work because the hearing aids have a couple of seconds delay before they switch, so you might miss the first few words and if it is just a very short message, like “go left”, “go right” you probably would not get any of it. You would have to have the bluetooth signal on all the time, not just when someone keyed a mic, and I don’t know if they work that way.

Um Bongo’s method probably has the best chance of success.

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