canterbury wireless voice release

My club is thinking about switching to wireless and people were wondering how long these have been on the market and what the track record for them has been especially in cold weather. Thanks and love the new site. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
Scott

 

Wireless= no more broken wires, no more corroded or loose plugs, but would like to know Battery Life, do they turn off automatically if forgotten? Call Bob Schultz and ask those questions, or read their Specs on the Canterbury Models, don't know any better.
Gary Bryant Dr.longshot

 

Thanks Doc and I'm aware of all the good benefits but the board used these inquiries to justify tabling the purchase for another month. The other club around here that starting using them months ago has nothing bad to say about them. Evidently that wasn't good enough for our officers so I thought I'd ask here to see what other clubs experience has been. Thanks again for the reply.
Scott

 

Thank you. I need more.
Scott

 

They are both great while they are working. Maybe you can ask our resident expert Steve Huber. He has an ad and a link on the the site.

 

Scott, we had a lot of naysayers when I broached the subject. If you could think of the excuse, it was made. Pulls are too slow. Wireless doesn't work. Batteries are a problem. On and on. I took care of the wired caller system and I was fed up having to spend so much time repairing cables and replacing broken speakers.

I convinced the board to try one set and see how everyone liked them. They did. Even the older ATA shooters who were absolutely certain they were junk. I bought three more and set them up. Everyone though they were a big improvement over the wired. Especially the ATA shooters who could now move them to different caps yardages without having to fuss with the wires. With no wires and the new, heavier stands, they didn't get knocked over as much so we had no broken speakers. They are quicker to set up and quicker to tear down. Buy them. You will not regret it.

BTW, there will be a slight initial learning curve for the shooters. The units power down when not used for a length of time. So the individual transcievers have to be turned back on (a button press) before they will work. Everyone will get used to looking for the blinking red light when they first walk up to their post and turn the unit on if necessary. the time out is long, so it never interferes with ATA shoots.

Batteries: they last a long time. Hint: the first time a low battery warning blinks on any transceiver on the trap, change all the batteries before you put them away. When one set goes, the others will follow quickly. A set of AA batteries lasts a couple of months in the winter (used about 10 hours per week) and longer in the summer.

 

Wow that's the kind of experienced response I was looking for. Thanks. Also FG I shot with Steve in the LV league. He won't remember me but we both shot 24 in really lousy conditions that day. Highlight of my miserable trap career shooting beside an All American and gentleman. But I will shoot him an e-mail. Thanks again.

 

The Moulton Gun Club near Wapakoneta, Ohio has had the cordless battery operated units for I believe 3 years and overall they have performed very well. Moulton is a 6 trap club and we change batteries once a year, normally right before our Jan 1st shoot. No more problems than with the wired units and you don't have the wires to contend with.

Dave Berlet

 

We have had a set for, probably, 6 or 7 years. We have had a few problems with them over the last 2 years, but for the most part that has not been an issue with the equipment, but human failure. For example, the receiver got dropped in some water and then powered up ... ffzzzt. Generally, we change the batteries once per year. We also have a sixth unit, which we can swap out in a couple of minutes, if there is a problem. We did send them all down to Gary Parker at Bob Schultz Target Shotguns last year for a check over of all the units and the repair of one.

We also have a set of wired units. They only get used for registered and interclub shoots when we use both traps. Everyone prefers the wireless to the wired, except if they are acting up.

The wireless units are used every day we shoot and the wired are only used when needed.

 

Thank you everybody

 

We have 5 sets of wireless and converted from wired. I sometimes wonder which is best? You WILL get more missed calls with wireless. But you will not have to be repairing the wiring all the time and much easier to set up. Out of our 5 sets 2 have yardage issues. They work good at the short yardage and long yardage they start to get missed calls.
With wireless shooters will have to have the mich facing a certain way. Heck we have seen shooters that have the speaker over backwards and the unit facing wrong way and yelling to get targets. With wired they would get a target...not with wireless. They do feel stupid when you show them they have it backwards.
We have worked with Gary at target shotguns extensively. Changed recievers, changed transcievers, swept the dials...added voltage boosters, and yet we seem to still have 1 or two that struggle with yardage. Keep in mind ours are version 2.1 and the very first version was 1.0. I believe the newer ones are 2.8-3.2. Ours just may be the early generations that had issues.

 

Thanks once again to everybody. Your remarks have been passed on and hopefully we got the ball rolling.

 

We had a problem of the stands blowing over on windy days. Fitted the stands with handles so the unit would land on the handle before the speaker hit the ground, also added a weight to the bases for a bit more stability. Got a few complaints about the weights but they don't fall over now. I've made a couple of improvement suggestions to the manufacturer but they seem to fall on deaf ears.