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Pretty pricey, I think I'd rather pull over for a chat. Are the other options on the market as costly?
Could you not pair two phones with a hands free kit thing somehow?
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Looking for a set of 2 for when SWMBO gets riding and didn't fancy paying 200+ for a set - are these any good? Will be linked to a phone for music/Google Maps/calls, that's it, nothing else, barring each other.
We'll be on separate bikes as well, she won't go pillion  |
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| Posted: 22:12 - 24 Mar 2014 Post subject: |
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https://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=390349431302
can somebody tell me why these wouldn't work? I'm not really interested in top end stuff as I wouldn't use it enough or get the benefit from it. Just a basic communication between 4 people.
As far as I can see (the link I put up) I can;
connect multiple sets
get good distance, would never need more than 1mile
voice activated.
Maybe an upgrade in headset would help but I can see what's wrong with these?
I'm not knowledgeable on the subject at all though so advice is appreciated.
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My system is a bit old.
https://www.thereformedbroker.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/tin-can-string1.jpg
works great though. You can make the string as long as you wish.
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| sabian92 wrote: |
Looking for a set of 2 for when SWMBO gets riding and didn't fancy paying 200+ for a set - are these any good? Will be linked to a phone for music/Google Maps/calls, that's it, nothing else, barring each other.
We'll be on separate bikes as well, she won't go pillion |
Well that's a pair so that's good, you will need to check that your phone sends verbal satnav directions via bluetooth in google maps. If not just get tomtom or co pilot for your phone and jobs a good un.
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| Jay89 wrote: | can somebody tell me why these wouldn't work? appreciated. |
Read link that was in last post.  Bike 2 Bike Communication.... where to start
They are Binatone; Brand name with rep for making the cheapest of the cheap. what cost has been put into them has been put into making them look like grown up higher end radios, not perform like them.
VOX operation is likely almost useless, with poor sensitivity and abismal lag.
'Hand-Free' headset, is cheap mobile phone job. Button in-ear-piece; and hardly a slim-line one, that will be pressed into your lug-hole in a decent fitting helmet and at best be a tad uncomfortable is not plain painful.
In-line mic on the wire, probably not going to end up anywhere useful, and likely to be outside helmet. even if you taped it to chin piece, likely be pretty bludy dire and distortion, without adding wind blowing over it.
And range? 1 mile? You might get it. But it ent a lot. And it will be when you need range, like when lead bike has gone through traffic lights and you are cought three cars back on red, you need it, but it wont be there.
At best they are likely to be 'adequete' to give your kids on a camp-site when they go off to play; or if you are marshalling a school sportsday or village fate or something.
For bike use? I wouldn't risk wasting my money. REALLY.
If you want radios, and you want them to stand a chance of doing the job, that money will just about get you propper helmet dedicated headsets.
As first post, thats the critical bit to making bike to bike radio work, and THAT ALONE is likely to set you back £20+ a helmet.
After that; how 'well' radio may work, will be down to how good a radio is, and if you read FAQ post linked; explains that PMR446 is pushing 'licence exempt' radio to the limits to get reasonable voice transmission from regulations framed around short range garage door openers and the like, or length of a football field, radio controlled toys.
Sub £50 a handset PMR then, is usually not going to have the high grade electronics to work well or reliably at anything over radio controlled toy ranges, and working up into the mid-range price bracket, many just add sales features, like crappy vox, or programmeable call tones etc for the extra money, not better electronics on the transmit and recieve circuits.
So you dont tend to get PMR radio's that are even 'barely useful', until you are in the £30-40 per handset price range, to which you have to add, £20-£30 for headset for motorcycle use, to even be in with a chance they are going to do the job.
Start with the headsets; that's the critical bit; and after spending £20 on the front line, do you really want to short change yourself, putting them through cheapo radio that cost less than the micropnone?
| Paris2 wrote: | Me and my brother used a fairly cheap set up for a few days in Wales, it seemed to work fine for us.
We used two Cobra PMR radios, |
Cobra used to have a pretty good reputation, and thier high end radios were well regarded and competitively priced; but have a feeling that a few years ago, they started supplying argos and Maplins, and cashing in on the name a bit, with a range of 'high street' radios in the sub £30 price range, made in volume, in china, that were really rather mediocre.
But, dedicated motorcycle headsets and PTT would have helped eek out whatever radios had to offer, and certainly made them more useful.
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The clue is in the acronym, PMR. |
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