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[tc35dforme]

A long string tied to your finger ??!!!

 

[JoeR]

Lately,

I have been using my cell phone with an ear piece. Luckily, my cell phone works in the area. I tried the radio idea, but I found that my wife only used it to contact me. When I needed help, she wasn't listening to the radio. Now I dial the home number from the cell phone, and it gets her attention. Needless to say, but whenever I called her on the radio and needed her to call my neighbor for assistance, the neighbor received the wrong information. Now I call my neighbor directly and there is no middle person to mess up the information.

Joe R.

 

[WVBill]

I've been wrestling with the same question. Tried cell phone, tried the FRS radios but can't hear them over the mower and ear plug is uncomfortable and keeps falling out with the josteling on the tractor. I've been thinking of getting a pager and setting it on vibrate.

 

[Joe_W]

I have a cell phone, and I set it to vibrate when I received a call. The only problem was the tractor vibrated so much I couldn't feel the phone, or hear it. It didn't matter whether I put the phone on my hip or in a shirt pocket. I even tried bib overalls with the pocket over the sternum, hoping that would vibrate on a bone and that would wake me up, didn't work. So when I get to a point that I can throttle down the tractor, I check the phone for messages. I must have developed a sixth sense for when the phone rings, because 50-60% of the time I'll have a gut feeling to check the phone, and there's a message for me. Kind of scary some times when I check it within two minutes of getting a message.

Joe W.

 

[rmcess]

Here is a links to Home Controls Inc.<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.homecontrols.com>http://www.homecontrols.com</A>. I have ordered from them many times before, they have a lot of neat products including X10 devices. Depending on the range needed and what you want to spend they have ones for up to the 10 mile range.
Click on Brouse and do a search by MANUFACTURER, the brand is "Linear".
They have several products that should work.
I installed a system to monitor a water level at a remote site with a Linear transmitter and receiver a little over three years ago and it is still working today, that unit was rated 5 miles but is transmitting just over a mile.
Good Luck!

 

[Soundguy]

I've seen a blinking antenna on some new cell phones... catches the eye fairly well when the phone rings.. tri color.. pretty bright.

Soundguy

 

[DaleW]

Curtis,
My folks used a remote doorbell from Radio Shack ($19.99) that could be easily modified from ringing a bell to lighting a small light. The unit ran on batteries and was small enough to mount most anywhere on your tractor.
Good Luck

Dale

 

[mbsil]

I think the pager idea is the best. In my 20 years in the electronic security biz I have had to install many systems to send a remote signal and I think that you will get more benefit for less cost with the pager.

The pager is with you all the time, not just when you're on the tractor. There is a company called AutoPage (www.autopageusa.com) that carries a pager/transmitter kit.

You can also add a hardwired receiver to it. Keep the receiver/flashing light on the tractor, the pager with you.

If your tractor runs on gas (has sparkplugs) keep the receiver as far away from the plugs/distributor/rotor as possible. The receiver will be overwhelmed with the radio frequency "noise" generated by the ignition and may not "see" the real signal from the transmitter.

Leakage in plug wires, etc. generates such a powerful signal that there is actually a way to track an individual vehicle down the road based on its unique radio frequency (RF) "signature".

The gov't has had this for over 20 years now.

Not a prob for diesels as they have no ignition system per se.

 

[Spencer]

I, like everyone else have also been trying to find a solution. I have a cell phone that vibrates but no matter where I put it I would only notice it vibrating about 25% of the time. At least with the cell phone I could just check it from time to time and it would tell me if I missed a call. This worked fine for when my wife was just calling to bug me but we were concerned about her being able to contact me for an emergency.

I read the other suggestions about the FRS radios that vibrate but I figured that they would not vibrate any harder than my cell phone so I blew off that idea for a while. I had a gift check to Staples for $75 a few weeks ago and they sell these FRS radios so I thought I would research it more. I went to Motorola's website and saw that they had an arm band accessory for the vibrating model I was looking at (T6220). So I went ahead and bought the two radios which cost me $105 with tax. Nice part was that with the $75 gift check and the $15 a piece mail-in rebates these will end up being free. I went to Motorola's website and ordered the arm band (around $18 I think).

So I had a few days before the arm band would arrive which gave me some time to try and teach the wife how to use these things. She hates learning how to use anything new, especially if I am trying to teach her. She refuses to read any owners manuals. Unfortunately these things have quite a few features but luckily I can set them once and then "Lock" them from being changed. All she really had to learn was to press and hold the push-to-talk button for about 5 seconds and that would make my radio ring/vibrate. Then she would have to wait for me to stop the tractor, turn the throttle down to idle, and hop off. Then I could press the push-to-talk button and ask her what she wanted.

Anyway these seem to be the solution for us. With the radio set to vibrate and in the arm band I have noticed her calling me everytime so far. I will attach a few photos of my setup.

This first photo shows one radio in the arm band, the other radio, and the included belt clips.

 

[Spencer]

Here is the radio in the arm band while its on my arm.