GENIUS! I've been searching around for a CB radio system for my bike but application specific solutions are going to run my about $500 bucks or more! Now all I need to find is a cheap radio with external PTT/Mic options and I'm good to go! Thank you for the awesome video!
Can you share a little more about how/when/who with etc you use your 2-way radio? I've recently bought a pair and I'm putting together all the resources I want/need e.g. repeaters etc and I'd like to know what benefit you get from them.
Hi Alan. I carry mine for only 2 reasons. Emergency if no phone reception or if theres a few of us on a ride and we are using different headsets that dont link
@@WulfOnTheRun ok thanks - just trying to fully understand the emergency thing. you have a range of about 5km. Do you think the chances are good in an emergency that you will be able to contact anyone? I'm investigating repeaters. There aren't a lot but unless you know where they are relative to your position, it makes it unlikely you could use them either. thoughts?
Personel location beacons are probably the most cost effective solutions. If you go off the beaten track. With the uhf get at least a 5w and a decent brand should get around 10kms coverage. Where i ride theres always a truck within range. Hopefully.😜
Awesome .. that is how bikers should do and live by. DIY, not just go and spend hundreds of $$ . My last UHF radio purchase was a few years ago. Do these radios come with an RCA or some type of audio input/output so that I can hook it up to my headset in the helmet ? No wifi / bluetooth fancy stuff, just some wires will do fine.
@@WulfOnTheRun Thanks. I lived in trucks for a cupla decades so I feel naked goin down the highway without channel 40 and was wondering about chucking a UHF on a bike. What is the battery situation ? or off 12 volt ?
GENIUS! I've been searching around for a CB radio system for my bike but application specific solutions are going to run my about $500 bucks or more! Now all I need to find is a cheap radio with external PTT/Mic options and I'm good to go! Thank you for the awesome video!
Cheers buddy. Glad to help 👍👍
Fantastic idea well done
Nice job
Cheers Kev
I tell ya what Andy your an ideas man. We should organise a weekend away I think on the bikes. Ride safe
Cheers DM sounds like a plan
Can you share a little more about how/when/who with etc you use your 2-way radio? I've recently bought a pair and I'm putting together all the resources I want/need e.g. repeaters etc and I'd like to know what benefit you get from them.
Hi Alan. I carry mine for only 2 reasons. Emergency if no phone reception or if theres a few of us on a ride and we are using different headsets that dont link
@@WulfOnTheRun ok thanks - just trying to fully understand the emergency thing. you have a range of about 5km. Do you think the chances are good in an emergency that you will be able to contact anyone? I'm investigating repeaters. There aren't a lot but unless you know where they are relative to your position, it makes it unlikely you could use them either. thoughts?
Personel location beacons are probably the most cost effective solutions. If you go off the beaten track. With the uhf get at least a 5w and a decent brand should get around 10kms coverage.
Where i ride theres always a truck within range. Hopefully.😜
Awesome .. that is how bikers should do and live by. DIY, not just go and spend hundreds of $$ .
My last UHF radio purchase was a few years ago. Do these radios come with an RCA or some type of audio input/output so that I can hook it up to my headset in the helmet ? No wifi / bluetooth fancy stuff, just some wires will do fine.
Yes it comes with a talk to activate mic and earpiece
A microwave oven and a tv and your about done 👍
Great idea mate. Stay tuned..lol
Questions without notice Mr. Speaker: How do you hear it ? an ear piece ?
and how do you talk into it???
Yes through ear peice with voice operated talk
@@WulfOnTheRun Does that brand have a jack for adding a larger ariel ??
@@organicox80 yes it does but is a 5watt radio already. Bigger antenna further range.
5 watt about 5 miles
@@WulfOnTheRun Thanks. I lived in trucks for a cupla decades so I feel naked goin down the highway without channel 40 and was wondering about chucking a UHF on a bike. What is the battery situation ? or off 12 volt ?