Did he use ASL? Or what? I mean, how did he do 6, 7 etc?

Reference above - he's Jim Burr - he can count to ten however he pleases! :p

The NBA mics are the same, they're one cable but split. I got to see one first hand, they're quite a nice little unit. they split with just enough room to clip it on each side of the color about a 1inch and a half or so from the bottom of the V. Their is a sensitivy control inside the unit that is revealed when opening the battery clip. Naturually its a little high for non-lanyard officials. There is also still a time-keeper who mans the base station incase none of the whistles trigger the device. What I think is cool is that base unit tell you which whistles triggered the devices. So like if you were in a situation where they're was an inadvertant whistle and no one wanted to fess up to it the Referee/Crew Chief could easily goto the base station and see who did it. They're are some high schools that can afford it. One school I was at this year was working on getting a demo unit to see how the district AD liked it.

Ones I've seen have that, too. Is that the whistle recording you were talking about before? Or is there a separate printout/recording of each and every whistle in the entire game.

You can adjust the sensitivity. Also, the NBA model is a little more advanced, i.e. better. That's one reason why the NBA version costs over $16,000 while the HS version costs around $2500.

The backjudge presses the button and keeps the clock running in situations where it shouldn't stop.

You're kidding, right? :rolleyes:

He would start back at 1 for 6, 2 for 7, etc.

He would start back at 1 for 6, 2 for 7, etc.

[/B][/QUOTE]Well, doing it that way, he could <b>never</b> get to 10. :rolleyes:

Well, doing it that way, he could <b>never</b> get to 10. :rolleyes: [/B][/QUOTE]

Isn't that what the shot clock is for? :p

In Canadian football the timing rules are a bit different. THe units were only used in the last 3 minutes of each half where the clock stops on every whistle, the only person who didn't use the precision timing was the referee, because a lot of his whistles are for other things besides stopping the clock. I don't think it was that effective, because i haven't heard of them using it since.

I used it in a H.S. girls varsity game (northern VA)a couple of years ago and it worked fine. We had a mic clipped in the "V" of the shirt. The HS was thinking about installing a scaled-down version, but never did. Only time I have seen it at the HS level.

It just struck me funny. My son didn't speak until he was nearly 3, and he had learned quite a bit of sign language before he started talking. In ASL, you can get clear to 99 on one hand, so I just figured that would be an easy way to do it.