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The setup:
ST1100: fully wired bike powered intercom, Kenwood TK3101 radio...
NT700: Kenwood TK3101 radio on SENA SR10 (both bike powered) and SENA ER5 helmet headset...
The situation:
In "dry dock" (down the alley at home) all works nice, ST to NT, NT to ST, even with a 3rd handheld Kenwood all can talk to each other...
It also works fine (> 1 mile) in abandoned areas like on top of a mountain pass bare of any human settlement... clear, crystal voice as if she's standing right beside me...
But once we come even near any inhabited structure all goes berserk... static, crackle, electric buzz... neither of us can get trough...
+15 years ago those analogue Kenwood radios worked exceptionally well as bike to bike communication... but in the past 2 decades technology has changed, like WiFi becoming omnipresent...
Can't ID if the current problems origin from power lines, residential WiFi equipment, radio relay/GSM cells, etc... disturbing the analogue radio or if it's just/only the BT-link on the NT700 influenced/failing by named sources?
Might upgrade to digital Kenwood radios be an/the improvement?
ST1100: fully wired bike powered intercom, Kenwood TK3101 radio...
NT700: Kenwood TK3101 radio on SENA SR10 (both bike powered) and SENA ER5 helmet headset...
The situation:
In "dry dock" (down the alley at home) all works nice, ST to NT, NT to ST, even with a 3rd handheld Kenwood all can talk to each other...
It also works fine (> 1 mile) in abandoned areas like on top of a mountain pass bare of any human settlement... clear, crystal voice as if she's standing right beside me...
But once we come even near any inhabited structure all goes berserk... static, crackle, electric buzz... neither of us can get trough...
+15 years ago those analogue Kenwood radios worked exceptionally well as bike to bike communication... but in the past 2 decades technology has changed, like WiFi becoming omnipresent...
Can't ID if the current problems origin from power lines, residential WiFi equipment, radio relay/GSM cells, etc... disturbing the analogue radio or if it's just/only the BT-link on the NT700 influenced/failing by named sources?
Might upgrade to digital Kenwood radios be an/the improvement?