Intercom Noise

[deuce1959]

Have an 03 GL1800. Listening to the radio and or cb through my JM headset sounds nice and clear. If I change over to intercom, so that my passenger and I can talk, I get nothing but static over 45 mph from the radio, disengage intercom and clear again. Any suggestions?????

 

[Scott1]

You possibly have wind noise coming from one or both of your microphones with the intercom. See if you have the noise when siting still. Try covering the microphones when the noise is present to block the wind.

 

[randalldavis]

I have the same noise. It doesnt matter how fast you are going, if the wind is blowing or not; when you turn the intercomm on you get noise. I have done everything recommended by countless posts on four different boards and I still have noise. My latest venture is coming from bikemp3.com. I pray this solves this annoying problem. (GL1800-Headset-Isolator-HGW-ISO-HDS / P/N: HGW-ISO-HDS)

Randall

 

[phil1945]

get a pair of 20 bd ear plugs....works for me

 

[earlyriser4444]

NOTHING works except Mic-Mutes. Go to www.Micmutes.com

These are built to solve this very problem. Order the rear installed sw as well so the passenger can also cut out the noise. Uses your press to talk sw under the left bar handle as well to turn it off and on.

 

[captrob12]

There is other possible issues, bad upper cord on headset, bad lower cord on headset,
poor quality headset. Make sure your headset wires are routed properly, you can get electrical noise from other power sources. I went throught the same thing and have eliminated pretty much all the extra noise.

 

[Hooker 6]

I cleaned driver and passenger mic cords, upper and lower and put dielectric grease on all pins. Much improved.

 

[Yogisan]

Here's three things I did to clean up the intercom noise on my J&M. 1) Re-did the ground on my aux fuse panel from the frame to the engine block where the battery is grounded. That got rid of a bunch of noise being picked up from the electrical system. 2) Installed a ground loop isolator between the J&M aux input and the Garmin 550 GPS output. There is an inherent impedance mismatch between those two ports and the ground loop isolator adapts it. 3) Once you get to that point the only thing left is the noise picked up by the mic. I shut the intercom off if I'm riding solo. Since I normally ride with shooters ear plugs anyway (really cuts down the overall background noise in the helmet), I set the intercom to the level that I can just hear and understand my passenger (something like the same level that I get from the CB reception). If you're expecting to hear your passenger as loudly and clearly as if you were in your living room, it ain't gonna happen. Yes, you can crank up the volumn to that level while you're sitting still. However, between the intercom circuit sensitivity and the J&M headset mic (also very sensistive), you're also cranking up the background noise. The mic and intercom circuit don't know the difference between human voice and noise.

I spent about 2 years troubleshooting, reseraching, using trial-and-error solutions from the Internet forums, etc., to get the system to where it is now. I got to the point where the only issue was intermittant transmit. People could hear me when I was not moving but I was almost intelligible at speed. Changed over to a Firestik non-ground plane antenna system and now all is right with the world. Hope this helps you. Good luck.