Wireless: What is the best way to connect multiple BTR base stations to an Eclipse Frame?

Question: What is the best way to connect multiple BTR-700 / 800 wireless intercoms to an Eclipse frame?
Answer: This answer is based on the number of available ports on the Eclipse system. The BTR-700 / 800 base stations are equipped with wired IC connections to support 2-wire and 4-wire intercom systems.

4-wire: This will provide the best audio quality connection due to the inherit benefits of a balanced line level input / output connections. It also can use up more ports on the Eclipse MVX-A16 card, i.e. two BTR-800 base stations will use up 4 RJ45 ports on the frame to support both the A and B channels. The four ports are connected via customCAT-5 patch cables (RJ45 to RJ11 patch cables) to each BTR base, the channels can be combined into multiple virtual party-lines on the Eclipse ECS / EHX software.

2-wire: This will use less RJ45 ports, approximately 1 or 2 ports depending if you are using a single channel BTR-700 or a 2 channel BTR-800 base station. The audio quality will be of lower quality since the audio is unbalanced 2-wire party-line audio, the Eclipse frame will require a CCI-22 or EMF-701 interface and a RTS party-line power supply to provide power to the BTR base and CC interface. The two BTR bases will require 3-pin XLR patch cables to daisy chain the BTR party-line channels A and B on both bases. Therefore this method would be used if the Eclipse frame already has a 2-wire RTS intercom system backboned into the frame and the user doesn't want to dedicate extra ports directly to a BTR wireless system in 4-wire mode.

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