bike / trike communications

[Rickety]

http://www.buytwowayradios.com/products/baofeng/uv-5r.aspx

this is a little radio that is rated at a full 5 watts of power on both the 150 MHz and 450 MHz band.

All of my friends have these small radios and we can talk on the highway about 5 miles apart, clear, clean, no big antennas, we use a in helmet speaker and mic system, and they work perfectly.

you can look them up on ebay or amazon and you will find them for 25 bucks brand new....... very good price........

Note, I use the 467.600 MHZ band, its GMRS band, and if you want to get a official license you can from the FCC for 90 bucks, its good for 5 years.

Again, great little radios

Rickety

 

[Gorilla]

http://www.buytwowayradios.com/products/baofeng/uv-5r.aspx

this is a little radio that is rated at a full 5 watts of power on both the 150 MHz and 450 MHz band.

All of my friends have these small radios and we can talk on the highway about 5 miles apart, clear, clean, no big antennas, we use a in helmet speaker and mic system, and they work perfectly.

you can look them up on ebay or amazon and you will find them for 25 bucks brand new....... very good price........

Note, I use the 467.600 MHZ band, its GMRS band, and if you want to get a official license you can from the FCC for 90 bucks, its good for 5 years.

Again, great little radios

Rickety

kind of curious as to your mic speaker hook up. can you post a picture please. Also is it a direct plug in to the radio?

 

[Sully]

This Radio ia an Amateur Band ( Ham ) Radio. To use it without a Ham license you will need to stay off the Ham bands. The headset you use will need a Mimi plug for the radio. Most headsets have this type of plug, or you can get a Adapter plug. The battery will last for a daily ride, or you can use a DC power cable. Talking range will not be a problem. Stow it in your pocket, use Belt clip supplied or use a Ram Mount. 73's

 

[Rickety]

kind of curious as to your mic speaker hook up. can you post a picture please. Also is it a direct plug in to the radio?

here is the link for the in helmet head set, you can see they have a real nice Velcro puss to talk button that can strap to the handle bars

http://www.amazon.com/arrival-Motor...&qid=1440348635&sr=8-3&keywords=in+helmet+mic

 

[Rickety]

This Radio ia an Amateur Band ( Ham ) Radio. To use it without a Ham license you will need to stay off the Ham bands. The headset you use will need a Mimi plug for the radio. Most headsets have this type of plug, or you can get a Adapter plug. The battery will last for a daily ride, or you can use a DC power cable. Talking range will not be a problem. Stow it in your pocket, use Belt clip supplied or use a Ram Mount. 73's

This is NOT a HAM radio and it is actually not certified by the FCC as a type certified HAM radio.

However it will communicate on the HAM radio bands if you purposely program it to do so.

The 150 MHZ HAM radio band as defined by the FCC is 144.000 to 148.000 MHZ the UV5R radios bandwidth is 136.000 thru 174.000 MHz

the 440 MHz HAM band as defined by the FCC is 420.000 thru 450.000 MHz, the UV5R radios bandwidth is 400.000 thru 480.000 MHz.

As you can see from the above, their are a lot of other places you can talk. some legally some illegally, I can assure you that their is NO FCC police. However if you start interfering with hospitals, police, fire department, government, or the police chief's wife, someone might try to track you down and question you.

The Cb'ers have been talking using thousands of thousands of watts for the past 50 years, and the FCC does not chase them around...... and the FCC limits them to 5 watts......

their are several free bands this radio can be programmed to transmit and receive on, the first is FRS / GMRS ( google it ) it's in the 450 MHz band and starts at 462.5625 and goes to 467.7125, this is where I start,

The 450 Mhz band will generally travel the furthest as it is higher in frequency than the 150 MHz band.

The 450 MHz band will also talk around and thru buildings very easily

If you need to stay in the 150 MHz band, you can legally talk on the MURS band, this is 151.820 thru 154.600, again google it.

My radios will last for 3 days, 24 hours a day if I don't transmit, If I'm on a ride with my friends chatting normally, they will last about 10 hours, now clearly if you are constantly transmitting they will only last 5 or 6 hours.

They will fully recharge in about 6 hours on the wall charger, and Sully is correct, you can get DC chargers and a butt load of accessories for this radio.

I have also gotten a ton of email about the newer, more expensive versions of this radio. I have the UV5R radios, they are 6 years old and still working perfectly. do you need the newest, latest and greatest, not really, the important thing is the transmitting power, and from the oldest to the newest they are all the same

In my opinion, if you wanted, life or death, solid communications for under 30 bucks, this is the radio to have.

ebay and amazon sell them new for 25 dollars right now.

If your ever passing thru Tucson AZ, look me up.
My GMRS call sign is WQUX 480 I have a repeater 462.600 with a tone of 141.3
My HAM call sign is NOFAQ ( N ( zero) FAQ )

Rickety

 

[Sully]

Rickety guess you missed my point :Shrug:

This radio has international settings, meaning that the entire frequency range from 130-174mhz and from 400-480mhz is open to both TX and RX. This means you do need to be careful as a Ham license only allows you to TX on 2m from 144-148mhz and on 440 from 420-450mhz. The radio is not FCC certified to transmit on any of the Marine VHF, MURS, FRS/GMRS, or business radio or emergency services radio frequencies that lie in these frequency ranges and operating in those frequency ranges with this HT will expose you to FCC action.

 

[Gorilla]

Sounds interesting. Backup for the intercom system

 

[Rickety]

I'm sorry Sully, I guess I didn't get your point.

can you clarify ?

Thanks

 

[DTR 11TG]

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some legally some illegally, I can assure you that their is NO FCC police. However if you start interfering with hospitals, police, fire department, government, or the police chief's wife, someone might try to track you down and question you.

The Cb'ers have been talking using thousands of thousands of watts for the past 50 years, and the FCC does not chase them around...... and the FCC limits them to 5 watts......
...

Rickety

not to argue or anything else, but I know 2 people in Missouri that had ALL of their CB base stations & ALL of their portable CB radios seized and I know of another that had ALL of his CB equipment seized out of both of his OTR Trucks. This happened less than 3 years ago, so I'm guessing that there is someone out there enforcing the regulations.:wave4: