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Valcom has a solution that would allow all-page and a button near each speaker. Press the button and it moves the conversation to just that speaker in talkback mode. Call Valcom - they'll help put it together.
Mike

Bogen makes a 15 watt talk-back amp TBA-15
I have used it with 6-8 speakers and it works fine. Just remember that all speakers are in TB mode together so if there is noise in one area its hard to hear the others.

This makes more sense to me. I haven't put in talk back in years, but I know if you had more than one talk back speaker you had to be real careful on distance do to feed back.

I'm going to give Valcom Tech Support a call to inquire about the button talkback. The Bogen solution also looks interesting. As you pointed out all TBs work together and that may present a problem. I'm thinking about talking with the customer to see if they would consider a one-way system and scatter a few extension phones around that they could use to answer a page call.
Thanks for all your help. If anyone has any other tricks I would appreciate them

I'm thinking about talking with the customer to see if they would consider a one-way system and scatter a few extension phones around that they could use to answer a page call.

Definitely talk with Valcom on this but if it were me I would strongly suggest to the customer that they consider the one-way with several extension phones. With something this large that's the only way to go in my opinion.

-Hal

If all else fails.. they could do the one way page and phones idea. It's not hard to say "Ryan please call xxxx".

Some times its better to KISS.

Why not ask the customer about the two way pagers. I have one that receives a message and I can respond.

The AA batteries in it last for a month and the person would have a record saved of what was requested.

Mine is $10 a month for an alpha/numeric and it would take a long time to meet the cost of a lot of horns and labor to hear a hoot and hollar.

They could probably get a 30 day trial to see if it would work for them. Any computer with internet access can send a text message, any phone could send a coded message. (111 call the office, 222 come to the office, 333 meet customer at shipping platform, etc.)

The pager idea sounds interesting. Do you know anything about self contained (customer owned) systems. I know that would they have a limited range. I would also need a (all-page). Has anyone tried them or know anything about them?

That MIGHT work for you, but they will take just as much of a beating as the radios you stated above. Are you talking about a hospital style paging platform? You can find those, and extender anntenas online. They are called "StaffPage" systems. Be prepared to pay just as much for the complete pager system as you would some paging horns.
This is an example: StaffPage
Remember: This one costs less because it does not handel alphanumeric messaging or a screen.