A rubberized reinforcing ply for articles made of an elastomeric material, specifically vehicle tires, which have a plurality of parallel tire cords spaced apart from one another and the tire cords are hybrid cords of at least two multifilament yarns twisted together. In one embodiment, one canal extends through a portion of the ear piece to provide an opening for communication between a person’s inner ear and an environment outside the person’s ear. In one variant, the data encoding comprises weighting frames of data from different base stations using an orthogonal matrix.