What walkie talkie for trail rides

[net wurker]

My other half doesn’t let me get a word in edgeways so I can save myself half the cost and just get a one way radio

I have this weird, intermittent high-pitched squeaking/squealing noise in the cab of my F150 that seems to come from the passenger side area.

It's weird because I only ever hear it when my wife is riding with me in the truck.

 

[GrandPaBrogan]

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You do know you'll sound like a sex worker ..
"Click".
"----- HEAVY BREATHING -----"

There you go flattering yourself again.
You seem so self-assured about the “sound” of a sex worker. How can you be so sure? It could very well be...
“Click”.
“- - - Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz- - -“

 

[GeekEcosse]

Baofeng are the way to go. Work brilliantly on the bike and I use them all the time when out with the young kids where one may be pushing ahead and one lagging or going opposite routes round a Loch etc. Also as an incentive to get them out.
they use the 888 model (£35 for 2!) which is idiot proof and come with USB charging stations. I have the more sophisticated GT-3TP model. The latter is more powerful and can transmit much further and can store many more channels.
Radio get out in the top of the rucksack and then the remote mic clips onto your ruck sack strap for easy use. Both models come with the in ear mic but they fall out and are poor quality and break easily.


Happy to help with the programming of them.

S

 

[carlbiker]

Baofeng are the way to go. Work brilliantly on the bike and I use them all the time when out with the young kids where one may be pushing ahead and one lagging or going opposite routes round a Loch etc. Also as an incentive to get them out.
they use the 888 model (£35 for 2!) which is idiot proof and come with USB charging stations. I have the more sophisticated GT-3TP model. The latter is more powerful and can transmit much further and can store many more channels.
Radio get out in the top of the rucksack and then the remote mic clips onto your ruck sack strap for easy use. Both models come with the in ear mic but they fall out and are poor quality and break easily.

Happy to help with the programming of them.

S

Yeah sounds genius, if your out of site your out of sight.....this brings it all in especially if there are to be larger groups too..... your links didn’t work, I’d be interested to see what ear device you use and what clips, I presume they use VOX?

 

[carlbiker]

Y’all are sooo old school!

get a phone mount and some gotennas

https://gotennamesh.com/pructs/mesh

You can track each other on a map and send texts in a cellular denied area (war terms).

How can anyone hear my war cry when I fail miserably trying to get up a muddy incline I can’t do if you can’t talk? ?

 

[scjgreen]

Y’all are sooo old school!

get a phone mount and some gotennas

goTenna Mesh

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gotennamesh.com

You can track each other on a map and send texts in a cellular denied area (war terms).

reminds me... Zimmer, I gotta send some to ya for testing.

How can I expect them to make a product I can rely on when their website doesn't work properly ?

 

[carlbiker]

How can I expect them to make a product I can rely on when their website doesn't work properly ?

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No that’s the point.....even the site is off grid! ?

 

[carlbiker]

Baofeng are the way to go. Work brilliantly on the bike and I use them all the time when out with the young kids where one may be pushing ahead and one lagging or going opposite routes round a Loch etc. Also as an incentive to get them out.
they use the 888 model (£35 for 2!) which is idiot proof and come with USB charging stations. I have the more sophisticated GT-3TP model. The latter is more powerful and can transmit much further and can store many more channels.
Radio get out in the top of the rucksack and then the remote mic clips onto your ruck sack strap for easy use. Both models come with the in ear mic but they fall out and are poor quality and break easily.

Happy to help with the programming of them.

S

license is £75 isn’t it?

 

[carlbiker]

BaoFeng GT-3TP Walkie Talkie Mark-III Dual Band High Power 2 Way Radio Tri-Power 8W/4W/1W Transceiver with 3800mAh Battery + Upgraded Chip + High Gain Antenna + Car Charger yeah it’s got vox nice......so you say programming?

 

[Zimmerframe]

Both links work here (France). gotenna ...

 

[Beekeeper]

Before the age of radio waves and semaphore we used smoke signals to communicate over long distances. Perhaps it will make a comeback

 

[Zimmerframe]

Before the age of radio waves and semaphore we used smoke signals to communicate over long distances. Perhaps it will make a comeback

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I can only imagine someone as masculine as @Gary producing farts so bad, that even after passing through a 20 litre silencer and gas cleaning device, that they still come out with such "body" !

 

[GeekEcosse]

Apologies, have updated the links in my original post.

No license required as they are using the public PMR frequencies. Please note that that radios to not conform to the PMR rules as they are too powerful and various other things e.g. non fixed antenna. Dont go using them in the local highstreet and swamping the local frequencies Tesco security guards etc are using. I use them up in the hills and occasionally pick up some climbers or bikers and swap to another one of the 16 public channels.

I don't use VOX as I would imagine that wind noise of my panting would trigger it and the remote mic is dead easy and doubles as a speaker. I probably need to look at some form waterproof bag for the remote mic for when it is lashing down.

 

[carlbiker]

Apologies, have updated the links in my original post.

No license required as they are using the public PMR frequencies. Please note that that radios to not conform to the PMR rules as they are too powerful and various other things e.g. non fixed antenna. Dont go using them in the local highstreet and swamping the local frequencies Tesco security guards etc are using. I use them up in the hills and occasionally pick up some climbers or bikers and swap to another one of the 16 public channels.

I don't use VOX as I would imagine that wind noise of my panting would trigger it and the remote mic is dead easy and doubles as a speaker. I probably need to look at some form waterproof bag for the remote mic for when it is lashing down.

Public PMR are these the ones binded to 0.5kw whereas UHF is 5w? The radio you use what power is that? Cheers

 

[GeekEcosse]

Public PMR are these the ones binded to 0.5kw whereas UHF is 5w? The radio you use what power is that? Cheers

The 888s are 3w and GT3 8w, they do break the rules.

S

 

[jeroen]

So... when I go out and about I tend to take a Motorola Extreme (older T82 model) along for the simple reason that even though .ch has amazing coverage for 3G/4G/cell..... there are a bunch of corners & trails I am aware of that do not have coverage (solid rock blocks that tower we have here in the area quite well).... and my trusty motorolas typically can still reach home... you know, just in case you do something stupid like using your bike to go up a mountain path (Alpine route - Wikipedia -- pic on the right, the white red white one) and you get stuck or ... well you never know what happens, better then to have a radio on you to be able to call help when cell phone does not fly...

 

[GeekEcosse]

So... when I go out and about I tend to take a Motorola Extreme (older T82 model) along for the simple reason that even though .ch has amazing coverage for 3G/4G/cell..... there are a bunch of corners & trails I am aware of that do not have coverage (solid rock blocks that tower we have here in the area quite well).... and my trusty motorolas typically can still reach home... you know, just in case you do something stupid like using your bike to go up a mountain path (Alpine route - Wikipedia -- pic on the right, the white red white one) and you get stuck or ... well you never know what happens, better then to have a radio on you to be able to call help when cell phone does not fly...

Agree, I have some emergency frequencies programmed in for that.