Any one know of or have some sort of bluetooth interface that will work with PMR bike to bike radios (Kenwood etc). Like the wireless bluetooth for pillion, GPS, etc, but want the range and connect-ability between groups of riders that you get with the radios.
Thanks
I switched over to sena 20s this year, having been "chinese copy" kenwood/autocom but sick of the faffing about with wires and set up of autocom.
If you have used autocom and pmr you will be delighted with the ease of use of sena bluetooth, apart from anything else they are full duplex, so none of that "roger roger over over" , silence whilst the autocom swicthes from tx to rx,pause, then everyone talks across each other!! ( no more " broadsword calling danny boy" type radio discipline needed, altho if you like that sort of thing then just carry on!)
Had some concerns about how water proof it was going to be, but we fully tested this aspect on a tour in the june monsoon through europe and had no probs at all!
for gps and music/phone the sena is surprisingly good, once you get used to the use of jogwheel. I use UE monitors and its excellent quality sound but the in helmet speakers are not good for music quality at speeds above say 40 mph, if you are wearing any sort of earplugs. GPS works well tho' you just need to turn jogwheel to up the volume!
for bike to bike, intercom is also good, altho like pmr, range is affected by factors like whether the road is through open countryside or through trees/ valleys where line of sight is much reduced. in towns and cities it is worse, where more than one corner between bikes inbetween buildings , say, will mean it drops out.
Like PMR, sena are optimistic with their claims of range, but up to half a mile ( depending on terrain) should be ok. In comparison to normal PMR the sena is as good. If you have an illegally powerful pmr, say 5W output through a proper separate antenna (ahem!) instead of 0.5W, then of course the radio will win hands down.
the sena will allow multiple other senas to be paired up, but note it will allow only one non sena headset ( they claim or imply better connectivity to non sena headsets but its weasel words I'm afraid)
in a group with 3 bikes, we found it works well and allows you to switch off some or all when all the (extra?) voices in your head become too much!
I can only speak for the sena 20s, I guess most up to date system will be similar.
If you buy sena to use with pmrs, the extra cost will be the sr10 unit which is expensive and still needs a PTT cable and a radio lead extra specific to your type of pmr radio. I looked at this but after using the sena, decided it was simply not worth it, so never tried it out it may well work, especially if you have non bluetooth riders in your group!
HTH
