advice and help needed making a remote e caller for foxes

[digga]

hi im after some advice and help on making a remote e caller for foxes been asked by a old guy i know who does fox shooting about a fox caller he was looking at the ICO Tec GC 300 Electronic Call as he has a very limited budget . but with this caller the trouble is where its american so mainly set up for coyote calling there are only a couple of calls on there that you could use for foxes in the uk .

so i sujested to him about making one from a mp3 player



. he doesnt use computers but i could download the mp3s for him and try sort out the build allready have a old mp3 player he is wanting it to be remote and found these outdoor speakers


http://www.wirefreeav.co.uk/products/In ... akers.html

says they will work up to 100metres do you guys think they would be any good or have any other sujestions ?

any advice would be greatfull really want to try help him out he is a nice old guy and know he struggles with money at times

he has done me favours in the past and would like to help him out if i can

i know there are a lot of very clever and helpfull guys on this forum from when i was asking about night vision builds but had to put that on hold for the moment due to customers not paying up

many thanks in advance for any help offered

[paulham]

I made one with a MP3 player on repeat a speaker and a amplifier. It was ok, bit couldn't turn it off when I needed to most.
You could use a audio transmitter and keep the MP3 player with you. Or rig this up to the power line so that you can cut the power to the speaker when you want. It does mean that you can only play one call at a time though

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/IC2262-2272-4 ... RTM1506421

[mgladwin]

I think Marky610 has a pretty nice home built unit that is remote up to a fair distance.

Maybe he could chime in and fill us in on how his is made and the details of the 'remote'.

Sorry to dob you in Marky. I have been meaning to ask you via PM for a while about your caller but this may be a better avenue.

[digga]

thank you for taking the time to reply guys i was thinking with those speakers you could have the mp3 player with you so you can change the calls or pause and set the speaker out away from you? so the fox is looking at that and not at you which is the problem he has at the moment using the mouth call he has at the moment not that it stops him bagging a fair few foxes yes i remember seeing marky610 caller while looking at his videos on youtube was looking at his door rifle rest to very clever guy but a busy one allso allways comes up with some great stuff will have a look for mp3 calls to download and see what i can find and post the links up here to help others out if i can thanks again

[digga]

had a look at these last night
http://www.amazon.co.uk/5-8GHZ-Wireless ... escription
says about 200m

or

http://www.amazon.co.uk/2-4GHz-Wireless ... d+receiver

which says good for 1000m that could give him some challenging shots lol
allso had a look on maplins site they have a couple of options on PA horns simular to the one in marky 610 vid

[digga]

after emailing a few companies and getting no replies i see these one ebay
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5-8GHz-300M-W ... 373wt_1275 have a nice distance but does anyone know if these could be run off batteries ? the amp and speaker i was thinking of using are
http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/15w-100v-pa-a ... aker-n12hq
http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/3-w-guitar-mi ... clip-r61bt

any help would be greatfull allready have a few calls and a mp3 player
many thanks david

[Marky610]

With the price and performance of the new Icotec callers it's not worth building one.

http://www.bestfoxcall.co.uk/index.php/ ... ote-calls/

My homemade one consisted of an Ipod (cheap secondhand off ebay), 2.4ghz transmitter/receiver, car p/a amp, 12v battery and horn speaker.


I use a GC500 now

[sunndog]

With the price and performance of the new Icotec callers it's not worth building one.

http://www.bestfoxcall.co.uk/index.php/ ... ote-calls/

My homemade one consisted of an Ipod (cheap secondhand off ebay), 2.4ghz transmitter/receiver, car p/a amp, 12v battery and horn speaker.


I use a GC500 now

be nice if there was some specs and actual info on the site....whats yours like for range, use in the dark, and such mark?

[Fox Hunter]

With the price and performance of the new Icotec callers it's not worth building one.

http://www.bestfoxcall.co.uk/index.php/ ... ote-calls/

My homemade one consisted of an Ipod (cheap secondhand off ebay), 2.4ghz transmitter/receiver, car p/a amp, 12v battery and horn speaker.


I use a GC500 now

be nice if there was some specs and actual info on the site....whats yours like for range, use in the dark, and such mark?

... And how do they compare to foxpro's?

[digga]

thank you for taking the time to reply marky that looks very intresting looked at there caller befor think it was the 300 u couldnt add your own calls but see you can with the gc500