car to pits radio

[snott]

im racing in 4hour endurance races at the moment and am wanting to improve the car to pitwall radio(at the moment we use mobile phones which aint safe).

what does everyone use to communicate with pits when racing???

ps. the cheaper the better

[gtdc]

Can't fault Autotel.

Melindi

[Kickstart]

Having done a fair bit of endurance racing in historics where pit/car comms are, not in the spirit old boy, I cannot see why you would bother with them

Personally I like the approach of bowling into the pits and just swearing a lot if anything is broken with the car...

Have fun

[Roop]

For low-cost. how about a PMR-446 setup...? The ones with jacks for headsets should be easily adaptable. To be honest though, a proper setup with external antenna and working on a licensed frequency will be way better.

[AlvinTaff]

We tried a new company called Brabourne Communications. They were a lot cheaper than Autotels, but they were rubbish. We tried everything to get them working. We eventually sent them to Autotel to sort them all out and they came back and have worked perfectly ever since. Cost us a lot more in the long run. Would always recommend Autotel.

[snott]

i didnt realise how expensive they were, i think we'll stick to phones and frantic waving of arms.

thanks for replies though

[thunderbelmont]

Did someone mention car to pit radios?

What would you like?

There are other radio suppliers out there that do motorsport you know...
I don't normally advertise.

Rob.

[carl_w]

PMR446 doesn't seem like the answer as there aren't that many channels (sure, there are loads of coded subchannels but there aren't actually many channels). A race would probably have them swamped with other teams using them, public, etc.

Mobile phone could be made safe. If you have a package with free on-network calls you could set up a multi-party conf call before starting the race, and use a bluetooth headset. Trouble is if you get dropped off the call you're screwed.