Got the new Nady M/C Communicator hooked up for our ride over into NE Alabama y'day. Didn't get a chance to use the radio part but the intercom works swell.
The headset that comes with the unit is a dual headphone type and I had no trouble installing it into my helmet with the Velcro pads that come with it. You have to use this unit for the master because it has the extra button for remote PTT. The second headset (bought seperately) is a simpler one-piece type that has only one headphone. It fit very nicely into Kathy's helmet and stayed secure with the provided Velcro mtg pads.
I did have a little trouble with the master unit's mic mounting (velcro to the side of the helmet). The Velcro glue melted in the hot sun and the mic kept falling off. This morning, I pulled the Velcro pad from the mic mounting tab and cleaned all the gooey glue off both parts. After it was clean and dry I glued the Velcro ("loop" side) back onto the mic mounting tab with thick CA (cyanoacrylate) glue. The "Krazy Glue" stuff you see at Wal-Mart should work for this, too. The mic now stays where it suppose to when you stick it to the "hook" side of the Velcro on the helmet.
The other little challenge was what to do with the cable that comes out of the back of the helmet so that it was stress-relieved. I cut a piece of black plastic (started life as a carrier card for a 10mm socket from Lowe's), drilled two holes in it and tie-wrapped it to the head of the cable, where all the little cables from the earphones and mike come together. I then stuck the Velcro halves to the helmet and plastic piece. The Velcro holds it solid enough to the back of the helmet so there's no stress on the other small cables attached to it.
For our ride, I just clipped the unit to my belt and didn't hook up the PTT button since we weren't intending to use the radio part. Both headsets plug into the top of the unit and once we figured out the procedure, getting everything hooked up and working when we mounted the bike was a piece o' cake. I'm thinking though about how I want to set up a semi-permanent handlebar mount for the unit with all the cables hidden and only the plugs for the headsets exposed.
We were able to converse easily with the unit while riding even though the ambient noise level was fairly high. The mics picked up and amplified the bike and road noise as well as our speech but it wasn't annoying, just something to get use to. Looks like you probably wouldn't want to use VOX for radio use for that reason - too many false tx triggers. The extra PTT button that comes with the headset is made to mt to the handlebars with its built-in velcro strap.
All in all I'm pretty pleased with the Nady MRC-11X Motorcycle Radio Communicator. Kathy and I don't have to yell at each other when we're riding now, which is a good thing.
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