What is the best way to set up a multi-talker network using Phonak devices?

Thank you Bob… Oh, I am 10 times better than I was, with the Beta Blocker Propranolol… After Sepsis, I asked my Doctor, “what the hell was happening to me” I was getting the symptoms of a full blown heart attack, including the pain & palpitations, 3, 4 or sometimes 5 times a day, for no apparent reason, he said “you have anxiety”, I said “but, I don’t feel anxious” he partially explained, but not fully, my brain is releasing a chemical randomly, basically putting me into fight or flight mode, for no apparent reason… Sepsis, attacks your vital organs, billions of bacteria enter the bloodstream, starving your brain of oxygen, your immune system becomes overwhelmed, and shuts down, but obviously the bacteria can damage these organs, I believe it damaged my brain, either the bacteria or lack of oxygen, or both? He said, there isn’t any cure for anxiety, and you are on Beta Blockers for the rest of your life… Not very reassuring, but you learn to live with anxiety, and for the most part, I am fine, as long as I keep taking the medication Cheers Kev

4+ clip on mics (or Roger one, or pens, or selects, or a combo) in a network will out perform a table mic, but be aware it’s first-talker-wins, they don’t all stream at once. They switch pretty quickly, but if one person is taking and someone tries to interject the interjection won’t necessarily stream through.

But MDB is correct, select or on, when in a network, can only work on lapel mode and when you put them down on the table they mute.

I have no idea what the engineering limitation could be, I think it must be some sort of table mic protectionism but I don’t really know. It seems like it would be so convenient to look Roger Ons to use as table mics OR lapel mics.

Sorry @Neville, I have to disagree, I have all these Roger ALD’s, and more besides those you mentioned… Do you have a significant loss, and have you tried them all, in situ? IMO, and that’s all I can offer from hands on experience, none of these Roger ALD’s, can match the clarity I get from the table mic 2, everyone has an opinion, and rightly so, so we will have to differ, as ever, we all hear differently… Cheers Kev

At the end of the day, what works best for you is going to be best for you.

Does everyone mean the older clip on or the partner mic?

For it to work in multi-walker network it needs to be a Roger devices, The Roger Clip-on Is still listed on the Phonak web page. The PartnerMic will not work as it is not Roger, although it is a great device for one on one.

So do you think that Clip On Mics would work well in the operating room, for example? Or signals from mics completely overcome that from HA microphones?

Oh I’m sorry I don’t know about that environment I’m afraid. Plus everyone will be masked won’t they so it wouldn’t work for me for sure. In theory it should work in the same way as long as there isn’t too much background noise.