[MV] Radio-Comm in convoys
Antoine Compin (acompin@earthlink.net)
Mon, 17 May 1999 17:25:58 -0700
I'd be interested in knowing what most of you fellow listees use
for radio-comm from vehicle to vehicle, that is, say, when you
hve a group of friends together...
With my core of fellow Miloitary Harley riders, we use these
small MAXON HX two-way voice-activated radios, but their ranges
is very limited (1/4 mile tops, less in urban environment); they
work in FM (I think) 49Mhz...they have 5 channels and their
positive use for us bike riders is that you can install the
headset and the boom mike on a WWII tanker's helmet withoiut
defacing it, and curve the antenna from one side of the shell to
the other and under the leather top strap, making it invisible.
I drop the small unit in a OD shirt pocket under my A2 jacket,
and I can run a wire through the left sleeve of the jacket to a
velcro'd PTT button on the handlebar if I want. This however is
10 year-old technology and I wonder if there is anything newer
and better out there that would fit the need of bikers...
Antoine
1943 Willys MB & '44 MBT
1942 Harley WLA
1942 Harley XA
MVPA 14803 - MVCG
http://www.freehomepages.com/antoine
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