New Products from Canford at PLASA 2011 The UK-based audio manufacturer Canford is providing debuts at the PLASA Show (September 11-14, Earls Court, London) for the new "enhanced" Tecpro wireless handsets and TW403 wired to wireless interface, the RTS BTR-240 wireless comms system, CAT5E stageboxes and multicore cables in several lengths up to 246', and the EMO E810 LED racklight, which interfaces with comms systems to flash letting the operator know of a call inbound. Canford will also show a selection from its comprehensive range of cables, including the D'n'A series, which redesigned all their most popular audio cables to handle both analog and AES digital audio. Also featured by Canford will be the latest products from Cloud and Databay. The new enhanced Tecpro Wireless beltpacks offer full duplex operation and license-free operation in the UHF frequency band. The powerful new handsets can supply up to 200mW with a 1,312' maximum range and now benefit from a range of enhancements. New features include push-to-talk mode, adjustable side tone, fast channel-change facility, selectable mic filter, PIN-lockable feature locks off pages in the advanced menu. The RTS BTR-240 system operates in the license-free 2.4GHz frequency band and delivers full-duplex operation for up to eight belt packs with an almost unlimited number of half-duplex belt packs. The system offers two separate audio channels allowing users to communicate on either or both channels. Talk and listen and listen-only modes are selectable on individual or both channels. The BTR-240 wireless intercom system is suitable for stand-alone operation or can be directly interfaced to wired systems including RTS, Tecpro and Clear-Com. Also new to PLASA and only just launched are Canford's "tour-grade" Cat 5 breakout boxes with four- or eight-way, Cat 5 connectivity and CAT5 Multicore cables in four- or eight-way versions. Also just launched are fiber-optic breakout boxes. Both types are intended for applications where a tough resilient solution is required. The multicore Ethernet cables employ Canford's reduced size CAT5E-F-M, designed specifically for installations where a high-quality, but very flexible, screened Category 5E cable is required. The core construction and jacket material is identical to CAT5E-F; the difference is only in the jacket thickness. The individual cables are collected within a tough outer sleeve enabling their uses in deployable applications. Each cable is individually numbered to aid termination. The new EMO LED racklight will also appear at PLASA for the first time. The new unit differs from competitors in several crucial ways, not the least being that it interfaces with Tecpro and RTS comms systems to indicate when a call is in-bound. The E810 racklight is a flush unit with no protruding catches or latches. It employs push to open and "click shut" sliding rails and when closed automatically switches off the light and switches it on when opened again. The sliding rails enable the unit to be withdrawn to precisely the right point to permit the operator to see all or just a few of the rack mounted devices below. Canford will also feature their D'n'A cable range launched at PLASA last year. The D'n'A cable range (digital and analog) has been redesigned to provide a true 100-ohm impedance making the cables perfect for digital as well as analogue signals. An impedance of 100 ohms has been proven to be an optimal impedance for AES/EBU digital audio signals as well as analogue microphone and line level signals. Many of the cables come in low fire hazard (LFH) versions. 
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