I bought a $200 radio headset that failed on a windy day in Kansas City

I was on a site near the river, moving some steel beams for a new bridge. The wind picked up, which is normal, but my new headset just cut out. No warning, no static, just dead air. I had to stop the whole lift and signal down to my oiler with hand signs, which felt like going back to the stone age. It turns out the brand I bought, which I won't name, had a known issue with the battery connection shaking loose. I lost about three hours of work that day, which the foreman wasn't happy about. The headset is now a very expensive paperweight. Has anyone found a headset that can actually handle real job site vibration without breaking the bank?

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schmidt.kim18d ago

My Milwaukee job site radio survived two years of dump truck vibration.

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the_eric18d ago

How do those things hold up? My buddy left his on the roof of his work van. Drove off. Found it a mile down the road in the middle of the street. Case was all scratched up but it still played. Could not believe it. Just kept on working like nothing happened.