Electronics » New approach to bike to bike comms

Well, an old approach actually.

I was an early adopter of Bluetooth motorcycle comms. I owned 2 generations of Scala rider before switching to Interphone units and I'm on my 3rd Interphone setup with the 'Tour' set for both rider to pillion and bike to bike comms. Before this (I guess at least 16 years ago) I used a Starcom box for rider to pillion comms but it wasn't particularly reliable.

My wife has a new lid. A Shoei GT Air II. I use a GT Air I and she originally used my old one with the Interphone Tour fitted to both. But although my old one was in good condition it was getting long in the tooth. A snag. The GT Air II is set up for an Integrated Sena unit and doesn't readily accept the Interphone unit. I've had bad experience with getting different makes of BT unit to talk to each other reliably.

Which leads me to my story. A couple of years back a friend gifted me his old Autocom SPA unit with some odds and ends. I thought about getting it set up using radios as a bike to bike setup as well as wired rider/passenger comms. I looked at what I needed and another friend came up with some bits and pieces including some PTT buttons. I bought a headset from Autocom and a couple of Kenwood radios 2nd hand from eBay and I spent a bit of time wiring the SPA in, setting it up rider to passenger and installing a simple 'no hub' radio setup on Anita's bike. Yesterday we went out for a short spin to try it all out. I'm very impressed, very much so. Clear comms at a great range that, after these many years makes me appreciate how limited BT still is. The radios are 4 watt but we're using no external antenna at the moment.

Anita is a lot more conservative in riding style so we do end up separated a fair bit of the time and I get a constant 'washing machine' like hubbub over the Interphone unless I shut it down. Range is also relatively poor.

So over the winter I need to source a decent tank bag for the Ninja 650 and rig a couple of external aerials and we should be totally good for the Picos! That'll be Anita's first trip abroad, if you ignore the Caribbean where she bought a new Yamaha DT175 and learnt to ride with no license.

I thought you were going to suggest two tin cans and a string.

This thread is so disappointing.

That's my worst nightmare, giving the Leader of the Opposition the ability to talk to me whilst I'm riding!!

Zitat von Tony101 im Beitrag #3

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That's my worst nightmare, giving the Leader of the Opposition the ability to talk to me whilst I'm riding!!

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Zitat von Sanemancured im Beitrag #4

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Zitat von Tony101 im Beitrag #3

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That's my worst nightmare, giving the Leader of the Opposition the ability to talk to me whilst I'm riding!!

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Ahh, but my wife is my bestie too.

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