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From: Joshua Hogendorn <jhogend...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:46:12 +1000
Local: Sun, Jun 24 2012 9:46 am
Subject: Re: Motorbike Audio
So after a bit of thinky time, i've somewhat decided that this is perhaps the sanest option.
with this kit to change it over to a sane boom mic setup:
Thoughts?
As for interbike comms, 80 channel uhf cb sounds the way to go. The three main points there, however are:
External PTT
The minor points after that are waterproofness and power.
My scheme is essentially to adapt the radio to bluetooth. the sena sr10 here http://www.senabluetooth.com/products/sr10.php?tab_menu=overview is the somewhat obvious choice, but its expensive and a little bit too much. perhaps theres something simpler? Having said that, the sr10 does give PTT ability so thats 2 birds with one stone. -- On Friday, 15 June 2012 at 7:46 PM, Joshua Hogendorn wrote:
> Oh man, you have no idea how deep I've plumbed this topic. Heres a short list. yes, I said short. > First up you have your standard crappy bluetooth communicators:
> Then the slightly better all in one solutions:
> Move up a bit and you get into modular setups:
> Then just miscellaneous:
> Theres also options for piecemeal stuff:
> My overwhelming conclusion is that all these things suffer from terrible marketing managers, as I have no idea on the difference between most of them (at a glance). Also that they're all incredibly mediocre.
> I think the ideal design for something like this is a lot simpler than what all these things do. a dumb bt4.0 helmet mount with standard sockets for mic/speakers. I was thinking a hard anodised enclosure, but that poses safety issues so probably just make the thing as simple and dumb and cheap as possible so you dont care if you smash it. The cost for a headset should be in the mic/speakers anyway. On the hub side, just give a pile of aux inputs in a standard plug and some easy way to prioritise them. Lastly, giant buttons on things, because gloves make you useless. BT pairing obv, and a minimum of AVRCP and A2DP. A lot of the linked above products come close but usually fail somewhere in some dumb flaw, like requiring a cable from helmet to bike, or only one aux input etc.
> last point, a lot of these will suck to keep charged if you're doing more than a day ride. I seriously wonder what they used on long way round?
> -- > On Friday, 15 June 2012 at 3:29 PM, Luke Hovington wrote:
> > I like the idea of uhf, but unsure on how well one can use it on a motor bike.
> > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Joshua Hogendorn <jhogend...@gmail.com (mailto:jhogend...@gmail.com)> wrote:
> > > --
> > > On Friday, 15 June 2012 at 9:58 AM, Luke Hovington wrote:
> > > My flat mate found these
> > > The cost to feature ratio looks good for me, just need to decide if the
> > > On Friday, June 15, 2012, George Patterson wrote:
> > > Same frequent allocation but smaller spacing. 12.5kHz rather than 25.
> > > From what I have just read, repeaters have needed to upgrade and I think the
> > > George
> > > On Jun 15, 2012 9:31 AM, "Ben Cooper" <bcoo...@cooperanderson.com.au (mailto:bcoo...@cooperanderson.com.au)> wrote:
> > > > 80 can talk to 40, same channels afaik.
> > > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Luke Hovington <lu...@hovo.id.au (mailto:lu...@hovo.id.au)> wrote:
> > > > > Very interesting, I wasn't aware there was a 80 channel version being
> > > > > Is it backwards compatible with the old 40 equipment?
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