Re: Cheap, Easy, and Usable In-Car Comm
Ok I saw a kit just like this mentioned earlier which is sold for motorcycles:
http://www.planetheadset.com/motorcycle-headsets.php
These can easily be hook ed up to Motorola Radius SP50 radios which are plentiful on ebay and pretty good
However someone else mentioned this site:
http://www.clubracingradios.com/
and wow thats a great deal and marketed to "Lemons Racers" but it seems others have had problems with these midland headsets?
Based on some of the responses above the Midlands may not be too bad.
The planetheadset looks flashoer then the typical eBay kits but still uses the problematic mini-din connectors.
Same thing with the cheap Club Racing set up. Sure, it's a Midland helmet kit but those also use crappy mini-dins.
I've made some 2-pin Motorola harnesses which are an improvement over the Mini-din kits. I can make helmet kits with a plug for ear pieces but I have not found a good source for speakers other than the speakers I have robbed from our cheap kits.
I made a kit using speakers I took out of a set of headphones but I do not think they are loud enough.
Bonedriver posted his comments and a link to Ridercomm.
http://www.hitechwireless.com/RiderComm … 2C129.aspx
I called and talked with these guys a bit yesterday. The Ridercomm system eliminates the crappy 2 pin connectors in the helmet as well as the mini-dins used in most cheap helmet set-ups.
They sell additional helmet kits for $40.
It looks like a good mid-grade set-up between the $30 cheapies and several hundred doller expensive stuff.
The main draw back is it uses seems to use a semi-proprietary 3.5mm 4 conductor connector. Basically and 1/8" IMSA style connector where IMSA runs a 1/4" 4 conductor connector.
The guy said they had a race version and he would send me more info but I haven't received it yet.
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1973 Datsun 240Z