Re: [ST] communications and loud fuel pumps

["Mike Bostock" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In your message regarding [ST] communications and loud fuel pumps
dated Sat, 13 Dec 2003 13:50:06 -0800, rachel&eric said that ...

>r- Rachel got her own bike this fall and now I'm looking for a way to
>r- communicate between bikes. Are there any compelling reasons to pay the
>r- extra $ to get a Chatterbox system? It seems to me that a decent set
>r- of two way radios with VOX (voice activated) headsets will do the same
>r- thing for a lot less. Am I missing something? I would appreciate
>r- hearing from anyone on the list with first hand experience and
>r- recommendations for specific radios.

Don't know much about Chatterbox. Autocom http://www.autocom.co.uk/
is the industry leader in the UK.

The "secret" the dedicated systems have is that ........ it is dead
easy to send a signal from one bike mounted headset to another.  What
is not so easy to to eliminate the noise from that signal i.e. the
wind noise from the helmet, engine noise etc.

I have ridden at some significant speed with a friend who rides a
with an open face helmet, a UK police class I rider, and with the
Autocom system at both ends the communication was crystal clear.

I suppose the best test is to buy a couple of PMR (or in the US
"FRS") systems with their Vox headsets (that will be compatible with
your likely bike designed purchase) and if you are dissatisfied then
look at ways of achieving noise reduction with Cheterbox, Autocom or
whatever other systems are available.

- -- 
Mike Bostock
http://www.toothfairy.co.uk/
Wales & SW ST Riders
http://www.sprint-st.org/

'99 Red ST

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