ericmark
Senior Member
- Location
- Llanfair Caereinion, Mid Wales.
The family have a collection of bikes, road, hybrid, mountain, electric assist, and the hill climbing ability varies and speed varies between the bikes. On the flat we all adjust to slowest, until we hit a rise, and then methods alter, some will speed up so gets one to the crest, others go down their gears, so the group spreads out, leaders will stop at the top and wait, but this means two problems.
One is the slowest never gets time to recover, but the other is any problem like chain comes off or puncher for last bike and others have left it far behind before they realise there is a problem.
The mobile phone is OK for person who has stopped, but one is which of the group to phone, i.e. who is in front, and for the person riding still not easy to answer phone without stopping.
So I have moved to PMR 466 radios, smaller and lighter than CB does not need a licence in UK, and I can hear message without touching radio, so if I hear chain has come off, delayed I carry on to top of rise, but chain snapped know to turn around. And also all in group hear same massage at same time. The system works well when all on same channel and same tone squelch.
But latter seems a problem, my cheap Baofeng have the lead and chirp and can set the tones, or not use tone squelch, but grand children have brightly colours toys which are PMR 466 but no patch lead or program to either set or alter tone squelch. So with no tone set on mine, I can hear them, but they can't hear me.
Has anyone worked out an easy way to work out tone used for tone squelch, or found other ways to keep in touch?
Note:- Chirp and 888S are the names of the computer programs used to set radios.
One is the slowest never gets time to recover, but the other is any problem like chain comes off or puncher for last bike and others have left it far behind before they realise there is a problem.
The mobile phone is OK for person who has stopped, but one is which of the group to phone, i.e. who is in front, and for the person riding still not easy to answer phone without stopping.
So I have moved to PMR 466 radios, smaller and lighter than CB does not need a licence in UK, and I can hear message without touching radio, so if I hear chain has come off, delayed I carry on to top of rise, but chain snapped know to turn around. And also all in group hear same massage at same time. The system works well when all on same channel and same tone squelch.
But latter seems a problem, my cheap Baofeng have the lead and chirp and can set the tones, or not use tone squelch, but grand children have brightly colours toys which are PMR 466 but no patch lead or program to either set or alter tone squelch. So with no tone set on mine, I can hear them, but they can't hear me.
Has anyone worked out an easy way to work out tone used for tone squelch, or found other ways to keep in touch?
Note:- Chirp and 888S are the names of the computer programs used to set radios.