Pre-order the all new
Blue Ocean® Megaphone today!

The First 50 customers who pre-order will receive 25% off the retail price of a Megaphone if they fill out an online product review survey.*

Tired of Megaphones that…
Sink?
Break?
Leak?
Eat Batteries?
All of the above?

Drown out the competition with the Blue Ocean Megaphone from NK.

• Waterproof and floats. Built tough to stand up to the demands of the rowing environment.
• Wrap around handle design maximizes drop resistance and durability plus makes it easier to hold and carry.
• Rechargeable, removable battery — same battery as the Cox Box.
• Lithium-ion battery pack provides up to 6 hours or more of use per charge.
• 13 different bumper colors to personalize and protect your Megaphone.
• 2-year warranty
• Battery charger included.

www.blueoceanaudio.com

* To receive the credit of $124.75, customers must fill out an online survey after using the Megaphone for one month. Only the first 50 pre-orders are eligible for the credit. If a customer does not fill out the survey then no credit will be issued.

2011 NK Athlete Grant Winners

After two successful years of supporting elite athletes, NK is pleased to continue supporting the rowing community by making nearly $5,000 worth of equipment grants available not only to current national team members, but also to those training hard to make it to the elite level.

We are happy to announce this year's NK Athlete Grant Recipients for 2011. This year we selected our grant recipients from over 50 applicants. We wish all of these athletes successful training and racing in the coming year.

• Erin Cafaro
• Alison Cox
• Will Daly
• Lindsey Hochman
• Grant James
• Madison Kerst
• Hannah Malvin

• Kenny McMahon
• Austin Meyer
• Tom Peszek
• Lauren Schmetterling
• Michelle Sechser
• Ryan Shelton
• James Sopko

• Silas Stafford
• Sam Stitt
• Rachel Stortvedt
• Bernadette Teeley
• Michelle Trannel
• Daniel Walsh

Have your sights set on a national junior, U23, senior or adaptive team? Watch for our grant application window in late 2011. Tell us your story, your goal, and how you plan to get there, and you too may earn an NK Athlete Grant of $250 towards NK equipment to support you in your training.

Tech Corner: Which Megaphone Is the Right One?

During the development of our new Blue Ocean Megaphone, many of us at NK realized that marketing it was going to be interesting: many other megaphone manufacturers boast of clarity and impressive outputs, but there is no way to be sure how they compare when just looking at them on paper.

For example, range is one of the most popular features to compare among all megaphones. The difficulty with this is that range can be calculated in a number of different ways. Most likely, other manufacturers are calculating range by determining the power loss over distance and using the average lower limit of hearing, and finding the range where this point is limit is reached. The contention I have with this is that there is no allowance made for fidelity or clarity - if the Megaphone sounds completely muffled 20 feet beyond the person, a calculated range of 500 yards means nothing.

Fidelity and clarity are other issues that are not easily quantified. The engineers and managers here at NK have worked diligently to be sure our megaphone doesn't have a "tinny" sound to it. As a result, we can tell who's speaking through the megaphone without having to look directly at them. I have noticed during our testing that the same cannot be said of several other megaphones.

As we get closer to the release of the Blue Ocean Megaphone, I get more excited every day. I (and everyone else at NK) firmly believe this megaphone is truly incredible and will completely blow the competition out of the water!