Radio Earpiece + iPod?

[Zander]

While on set today I was talking with the first AC. Somehow we got to the topic of listening to music on set and he mentioned that he had a few friends in LA who have radio earpieces (surveillance style) that feature a headphone jack. Based on his description the device would feed the music to your ear whenever the radio was quiet and when someone clicked in to talk, the music channel would cut out, allowing you to hear the radio clearly. I tried searching the web but I was unable to find anything that matched.

Has anyone hear heard of such a thing?

 

[MSpencer]

On set in pittsburgh i knew a few people who did this. I'm not sure if it worked but the radios have a headphone jack and durning downtime they'd listen to music i'm not sure how you can do both at the same time. The headphone jack leads to your earpiece so unless they spliced it i'm not sure.

 

[Hawk Teflon]

I've never heard of such a thing, but in all actuality it can't be THAT hard to come up with something to do that, right? Don't get me wrong, I have NO idea how to do it, but it's seems very possible.