bas2456 My intramural league gave us Fox 40 Pearl's for free, so I used that all season. One of the guys also does high school ball, and he used a Fox 40 Classic. Do you go with Pearl, Classic, or something else?
NewNCref bas2456 wroteMy intramural league gave us Fox 40 Pearl's for free, so I used that all season. One of the guys also does high school ball, and he used a Fox 40 Classic. Do you go with Pearl, Classic, or something else? Fox 40 Classic all the way. The Pearl sounds like a train whistle.
FBullock Primarily the Classic but I do care the Dolphin in case the other folks on the crew want to use that. Want all our whistles to sound the same.
just another ref FBullock wrotePrimarily the Classic but I do care the Dolphin in case the other folks on the crew want to use that. Want all our whistles to sound the same. Why?
mtn335 Classic for me, but I'm curious about the Dolphin, can anybody tell he about it? As for the pink whistles--http://blogs.thenewstribune.com/preps/2009/01/07/pink_whistles_coming_to_a_court_near_you That's about officials in King County (Seattle), WA, but we did the same thing in Snohomish County (Everett) WA, as did lots of collegiate and HS officiating groups around the country. Great thing. Dad--are you the same guy as on the Jeopardy forums? I go by GonzagaNathan there.
SWMOzebra DonInKansas wroteBought a pink whistle but didn't have a game that week. Same for me, first year with pink whistle and no HS girls games to call that week!
archangel The Classic for me, but I did work some youth games 2 weeks ago, in a small out in the country school, with a partner (1st year) who showed up late, apologized- saying he lost his whistle and had stopped at a local dept store to buy one. The funny thing was, the only whistle available was a kids one from the toy dept- blue and oversized! I'm still smiling over That sound!!
26 Year Gap archangel wroteThe Classic for me, but I did work some youth games 2 weeks ago, in a small out in the country school, with a partner (1st year) who showed up late, apologized- saying he lost his whistle and had stopped at a local dept store to buy one. The funny thing was, the only whistle available was a kids one from the toy dept- blue and oversized! I'm still smiling over That sound!! At least he did not have to buy a case of Cracker Jack.
bigdogrunnin mtn335 wroteClassic for me, but I'm curious about the Dolphin, can anybody tell he about it? As for the pink whistles--http://blogs.thenewstribune.com/preps/2009/01/07/pink_whistles_coming_to_a_court_near_you That's about officials in King County (Seattle), WA, but we did the same thing in Snohomish County (Everett) WA, as did lots of collegiate and HS officiating groups around the country. Great thing. Dad--are you the same guy as on the Jeopardy forums? I go by GonzagaNathan there. Check here and here. The first link will probably give you more of what you are looking for . . .
Adam I think we had a paid dolphin afficianado around here for a while, but I could be wrong. I use a classic; used to have a mini (and didn't realize it) until the partner in my first varsity game informed me afterwards that he had a hard time hearing my whistles.
Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. I was probably one of the last basketball officials in the country to go to a Fox; I didn't like how the Classic felt in my mouth and stayed with the Acme Thunderer unitl Fox came out with the Pearl and I then changed to the Pearl. Eventually, I went to the Fox, but when the Dolfin came out I switched to it and think it is the best. I still use the Pearl in very small gyms and I would use it to bring order to chaos in a classroom when I use to substitute teach, 😀. MTD, Sr.
zm1283 I have two Mini's and a Classic. I switch back and forth. Can't tell the difference as far as loudness goes.
SAK Fox 40 or Dolphin. I like the dolphin, it sounds very much like the 40 classic but its louder. I have used Pink and blue fox 40's. We were using them for the games the last week in January for Coaches V. Cancer. The whistles were free but they were asking for a donation of one game check, or what ever you could give.
