I just programmed my Icom F5061D radio with Narcoa and AAR channels . Does anyone have any additional help or suggestions for operation or interfacing with an intercom/headset? There are users I'd like like to PM but I need 3 posts before that is enabled for my profile.
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Race/off road buggies often use two way radios with headset solutions. These solutions are kind of expensive, but they have intercom/radio interface boxes and headsets that will probably get you going in the right direction. Again, expensive, but ~mostly~ plug-n-play.
If you have experience working with two way radios and understand how to program their option interfaces and do some basic soldering, you can probably cobble together a single headset into that radio. There will be a speaker level output off the back, and the rear accessory connector will have a mic level input and PTT interface, but sometimes those require programming the radio to accept those inputs. You'll need to make sure mic impedance is correct.
Mot fire apparatus use headset interfaces, but again, you are back to the expensive solutions.
You'll likely want to start with a service manual for that radio to find out what the interface specifications are on the radio, and work from there.
