Add TOA speaker to fox pro or make home made caller?

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Here is the deal. I have been using a 10watt toa speaker with a home made 50' cord and my iphone or ipod. This has worked great as the toa speaker is plenty loud. So im wondering if it would be best to make a call out of the nady and this speaker or get a cheap foxpro and use this speaker with it and have a wireless setup. Main thing also is $$$ is tight but I got $250 from cabelas and could get the cheap spitfire. Opinions?

But a couple of problems.
1. I get some feedback from somewhere, not white noise or background noise from unclear sounds but a popping buzzing sound almost like putting something near a home theater system and it giving the feedback. I cant duplicate the feedback or guess when it will happen. Sometimes it will do it right off and sometimes it wont do it for 20 minutes. And it may do it once or twice or more for short burst. I use a iphone and figured it was it causing the problem. So I switched to a small old style ipod and it still does it. I use the ipod and phone in my car stereo and never had it make the same feedback.

2. The cord

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If you have a cell phone or bluetooth device turned on close to the amplifier or the nady you will sometimes get interference like you are describing. Also using a shielded speaker wire seems to help. What are you using for an amplifier?

The Spitfire will work a lot better than the Nady and will give you a source for some really good sound files.
 
The toa has a built in amp. I think the spitfire will get me a reliable wireless setup so I'll probably go with that after seeing the nady only has a 250ft max range. I also only hunt coyotes so 24 sounds is plenty.
 
If you decide to go the scorpion route let me know. I have a scorpion used twice with TOA speaker, batteries and charger, sound card and reader, cabelas bag (missing shoulder strap) for sale. With both TOA speakers you would have some serious volume and everything would fit into the bag with room to spare.
 
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does your toa speaker have an amp on it? My toa speaker is amped and uses 8 batteries. Im wondering if it will still work with the amped spitfire or scorpion.
 
Does your toa use batteries or have the option to turn the speaker on or off? This is what the back of mine looks like and it takes batteries to operate as it has its own amp.

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No my TOA doesnt take batteries. The scorpion has a plastic peice in it internals that you can place to use it's speaker or just the external.
 
Thanks! I looked closer at your photo and got the model number off of it and bingo! I found a 30W version that looks interesting. It was $75.00. What did you pay for your 10W version, if I might ask?
 
Those are paging horns so the frequency response isn't going to be all that great. The SC 610 has a frequency response of 315Hz to 12.5kHz. The 151 Nady has a frequency response of 25Hz to 25kHZ, so even though the is much better you will only get the lower sound quality of the paging horn when you play your sounds through it.
 
All smaller horn loaded speakers or single driver full range drivers will be frequency limited at the extremes of the hearing range. The quality of the driver itself would determine ultimate sound quality of any speaker. Physics must be obeyed
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Quote:Where are you guys buying the powered TOA speakers from?



The above TOA with an amplifier built into the cap is one that I built in our custom shop.
 
That 610T is the same speaker I bought off ebay for 30 bucks when I built my caller and I think if you remove the rear section of the speaker and dis-connect the wire or wires to the rear area for different voltage you will get rid of the noise you're refering to. I never tried mine the way it came as I was told to do this and it is crystal clear, just hook up the speaker as you would any other one after dis-connecting the rear section. I went with the canuk 193 for the amp. Mike
 


I removed the transformer so it is the same as the standard 10 Watt TOA. The noise he is getting may be from the cable between the player and speaker.
 
Originally Posted By: The Bandit

I removed the transformer so it is the same as the standard 10 Watt TOA. The noise he is getting may be from the cable between the player and speaker.

I would like to convert a KAS2030ML (30W) to a 10W TOA speaker for better portability. I pulled the back off the 30W speaker and it looks like the electronics of the call should fit in the smaller 10W horn space.

If I understand this thread correctly I can either use a SC-610 or a SC-610T TOA speaker. If I use a SC-610T I have to remove the transformer and nothing else to make it the same as the SC-610, correct?
 
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