New Toy

Went to the BMF End of Year Show in Peterborough on Saturday.

The show is definitely going down hill,no manufactures were there, it was just a lot clothing resellers and food stalls.

But I did pick up a new toy while I was there, a Starcom1 Digital Comms unit as a reward for getting a new job a couple of months ago, not that the new job isn't it's own reward (in case any of my new colleages ever find this blog :-) )

I can now use the phone and listen to my iPod while riding. Who knows, if any of my friends ever get around to getting a licence all I would need to get for bike-2-bike comms would be a radio (hint Matt).

I think I have everything setup and working now. The crackling phone calls seem to have been solved by moving the phone to my top pocket and further away from the HT Leads, it makes you wonder what all those RF spikes are doing to my tender areas which are much closer to the engine than my phone ever was.

The only problem I still hare is that if I try to sing along to the iPod, the Starcom thinks i'm trying to talk on a radio or phone and so mutes the music feed :-\