Radio Communication

[cbailey]

We use them and we love them. We got a set of 6 radios and earpieces for about $150. Early on we were using them too much and it messed up some of our mechanics. Once we started using them only as an additional communication tool and not a replacement for our mechanics, things got so much better. There was only one time that we couldn't use them and that was because the home team band was playing so loud during dead ball periods (every single dead ball period), we couldn't hear each other.

[Texas Aggie]

We are allowed to use them if our state organization approves the radio when a crew asks. Right now there are guidelines in our mechanics manuals for what features the radio has to have in order to be approved. The funny thing is that someone with actual radio knowledge (not me by ANY stretch) saw that some of the requirements were inconsistent and even contradictory. The other problem, at least so far, is that a list of approved radios hasn't been published.

It is clear to me that the use of radios is being discouraged in Texas for whatever reason (and it sort of reminds me of how black pants were treated when they first appeared on the horizon in the 2006-8 time frame).