Coms

Will watch with interest Bolls

UH076SX is a compact 5 Watt UHF radio featuring rugged waterproof construction to operate in the most intense environments.

Batteries: 1x Lithium Ion Rechargeable Battery Pack (included)
* Range may vary depending on environmental and/or topographical conditions.

Range is with UHFs is always disapointing 15kms then they say line of sight, so a hill or corner around a hill and its gone :ohmy:

Hope its a good one because one would be good, but I have tried 3 and always end up binning them

I’v been runnning a Uniden UH 078SX for the past couple of years, which is pretty much the same as the 076SX.
Its a top unit, There is a guy on ADV rider that makes a really nice mounting bracket for these Uniden radios. Around $100 from memory and its a top bit of gear.

I run mine through an Autocom system, I run Ipod, UHF and phone all through the system. With a push to talk button mounted on the handlebars. The Ipod turns itself down the minute the phone rings or silence is broken on the UHF.

Lotsa has been playing around with a sytem using PTT on the bars but you have to have an umbilical cord to your helmet.
I looked at it, but if you want to go wireless you need the autocom system with bluetooth etc, etc, etc and the cost ends up about $1000 with the good UHF radio, rugged mounting system etc, then to get better range they fit a separate larger aerial to the bike. So it can work out to be fairly expensive.
You can get a VOX operated mike in your helmet and have a cable to the radio say in your back pack, but you still have a cable to your helmet.
We decided to do as TB has done and use Scala bluetooth units – they say the new G4 has a range of up to 1.6km :sick: (would be line of sight when alls good) Anyway we will see how good they are on the trip.

Mickp

Yeh the Q2’s are about that but we got the G4’s @ $200 to see how they go. They are physically larger than the Q2 and have a flip up aerial for better range in the open stuff – we’ll see

Mick

Bollocks,

I use a GME 3 watt radio and a headset purchased from NZ. Sam and Merv also have the same setup and it works well

We have also had others on rides with a two way in their back pack, if they got lost or crash and injured (as happened on one ride) they can call you up :ohmy:

Here is the link (its a wierd site) :huh:

http://www.amalgamate2000.com/sales/motorcycle__communications.htm

He can supply the “K” series headset to suit any brand of radio, Uniden and GME are common ones he supplies.

I can get spare parts for these headsets from Jaycar.

Adam.

UHF’s are what we use with the speaker mic strapped to vest/backpack, then wired an ear piece to handset so all is independent to helmet- found the handset really good in single and to talk, but in the open a bit hard to hear, thats why we connected the earpiece. We have one for sweep, one for lead and one in mid pack. Found that the earpiece with the little activation button was to hard to find(flaps about in the breeze)whereas the big button on the right shoulder(handset)is easy as.
Sewed a pouch into the back of the vests so that when you change lead/sweep etc the uhf goes with it.

hatto