bluetooth transmitter?

I have been looking for an inexpensive alternative to being wired up while
on my motorcycle. Currently have a splitter from the gps and MP3 player to
ear phones, which work fine, but wind is an issue with the dangling wires
flopping around.

My thoughts are to find a Bluetooth transmitter that I could plug them into,
then find a headset/receiver/speakers of some sort that I could use in my
helmet. I have seen some setups designed for this, but $300+ is not in the
budget. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Ray

"lobo" <el_lobo@nowhere.net> wrote in
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> I have been looking for an inexpensive alternative to being wired up
> while on my motorcycle. Currently have a splitter from the gps and MP3
> player to ear phones, which work fine, but wind is an issue with the
> dangling wires flopping around.
>
> My thoughts are to find a Bluetooth transmitter that I could plug them
> into, then find a headset/receiver/speakers of some sort that I could
> use in my helmet. I have seen some setups designed for this, but $300+
> is not in the budget. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>
> Ray
>
>
>

Ray, I got tired of wires flapping and now put the audio to a
discontinued Sony TMR-BT10 Bluetooth transmitter, a little rechargeable
module that clips to anything and comes with a drop-in charger on AC
line, no 12V cord.

My headset is a Motorola S9 which is capable of talking on handsfree to
my sellphone, a Motorola ROKR Z6m and the little Sony on A2DP (Stereo
headset) profile, simultaneously. To get them to pair double this way,
pair the Sony with the S9 first and leave the Sony running while you pair
the sellphone to the S9. The S9 will pair the sellphone only with the
handsfree, leaving the stereo hooked to the Sony BT transmitter.

Now, instead of playing pairing games with several devices, which sucks
as you can only pair with one at a time, I just plug the Sony into
whatever Stereo I want to listen to, while using the S9 as a handsfree
headset on my sellphone. It even works on the computer or stereo at
home...just plug it in. When you make a sellphone call or answer the
phone, the S9 cuts off the audio from the Sony until you're done, then
puts the stereo back into your ears the way it should. Works great.

On the bike, the S9 is a behind-the-head headphone made of soft, flexible
plastic, not hard. I love it because it makes NO MECHANICAL NOISE when
you move. The earpieces are rubber and seal into my ears nicely keeping
out the wind noise. It's volume is REALLY LOUD!...PAINFULLY LOUD!...so
you can hear the music until you go deaf, of course. The S9 will run all
day and into the night before being recharged by plugging it into any
mini USB power supply or computer port via camera cable, same as the
Motorola phones now take. Their power cords are interchangeable.

You can buy the S9 online around $80 and the now-discontinued Sony TMR-
BT10 for around $50 online....

Sony quit making all the BT transmitters because they didn't sell, now
that the phones have joined the 21st Century with stereo profiles.

"Larry" <noone@home.com> wrote in message
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> "lobo" <el_lobo@nowhere.net> wrote in
> news:l8u7k.11591$mh5.10060@nlpi067.nbdc.sbc.com:
>
>> I have been looking for an inexpensive alternative to being wired up
>> while on my motorcycle. Currently have a splitter from the gps and MP3
>> player to ear phones, which work fine, but wind is an issue with the
>> dangling wires flopping around.
>>
>> My thoughts are to find a Bluetooth transmitter that I could plug them
>> into, then find a headset/receiver/speakers of some sort that I could
>> use in my helmet. I have seen some setups designed for this, but $300+
>> is not in the budget. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>>
>> Ray
>>
>>
>>
>
> Ray, I got tired of wires flapping and now put the audio to a
> discontinued Sony TMR-BT10 Bluetooth transmitter, a little rechargeable
> module that clips to anything and comes with a drop-in charger on AC
> line, no 12V cord.
>
> My headset is a Motorola S9 which is capable of talking on handsfree to
> my sellphone, a Motorola ROKR Z6m and the little Sony on A2DP (Stereo
> headset) profile, simultaneously. To get them to pair double this way,
> pair the Sony with the S9 first and leave the Sony running while you pair
> the sellphone to the S9. The S9 will pair the sellphone only with the
> handsfree, leaving the stereo hooked to the Sony BT transmitter.
>
> Now, instead of playing pairing games with several devices, which sucks
> as you can only pair with one at a time, I just plug the Sony into
> whatever Stereo I want to listen to, while using the S9 as a handsfree
> headset on my sellphone. It even works on the computer or stereo at
> home...just plug it in. When you make a sellphone call or answer the
> phone, the S9 cuts off the audio from the Sony until you're done, then
> puts the stereo back into your ears the way it should. Works great.
>
> On the bike, the S9 is a behind-the-head headphone made of soft, flexible
> plastic, not hard. I love it because it makes NO MECHANICAL NOISE when
> you move. The earpieces are rubber and seal into my ears nicely keeping
> out the wind noise. It's volume is REALLY LOUD!...PAINFULLY LOUD!...so
> you can hear the music until you go deaf, of course. The S9 will run all
> day and into the night before being recharged by plugging it into any
> mini USB power supply or computer port via camera cable, same as the
> Motorola phones now take. Their power cords are interchangeable.
>
> You can buy the S9 online around $80 and the now-discontinued Sony TMR-
> BT10 for around $50 online....
>
> Sony quit making all the BT transmitters because they didn't sell, now
> that the phones have joined the 21st Century with stereo profiles.

Thanks for your response Larry, I appreciate it. That looks to be a good
alternative to those expensive options out there.
I have seen those types of headphones. Does it fit you well under a helmet?
I use a HJC modular.
Ray

"lobo" <el_lobo@nowhere.net> wrote in news:dwP7k.5299$L_.894
@flpi150.ffdc.sbc.com:

> Does it fit you well under a helmet?
> I use a HJC modular.
>

I wear a full helmet in the winter. It's a cheap Chinese helmet, not one
of those that looks like we're already going a gazillion km/sec near
light speed....It's just a regular motorcycle helmet that covers my ears.
Too hot at 99F in the SC sun all summer, I move to an open "cop top", one
of those turtle tops like the cops wear and take off the side curtains to
let some air in. It's really hot and humid in summer, here.

The S9 fits fine up into the full helmet, but you lose control of the
buttons, especially the ones for volume. Luckily, I can control the
volume of what the little Sony is plugged into and leave the volume of
the headset up full. I then adjust both the sellphone and the stereo
source to get a balance between them, so loss of the headset's controls
on each earphone isn't that important. What is lost is the microphone,
which is located in the end of the left (I think) earphone. There is no
boom mic on the S9. That's fine in a quiet car or walking around unless
it's a noisy environment. But, I don't answer calls if I'm on the bike,
so it really doesn't matter. The earphone ringing just lets me know I
missed a call and to look at the caller ID and voicemail when I stop to
see if it's important.

As far as playing music inside the helmet, it's great. The full helmet's
padding easily accepts the narrow, flexible S9 earphone arms from the
receiver/battery bubble, which sits outside my full helmet right under
the rear edge of it.

I've got some areas of the city where there is excessive noise on 2400
Mhz, making the headphone balk playing music. The cure is to hang the
little Sony transmitter down the back of my shirt nearer the headphone's
antenna under my t-shirt, out of the wind. It only happens rarely, but
if you do this and suddenly the music balks, move the Sony to a different
location so it has a stronger signal. Oh, and don't try to operate the
Sony BT transmitter right beside your BT sellphone, either. The
transmitter of one jams the receiver of the other and that will make it
balk.

I use a Nokia N800 Linux internet tablet, in addition to the MotoROKR Z6m
sellphone, for MP3 playing. The N800 has 32GB of SDHC cards in it a vast
movie/music machine...(c; To play N800's music with the Sony BT
transmitter, I put them both in the underseat trunk of my Honda Reflex
250 scooter in random play or playlist play. I can also use the BT
connected internet from Alltel through the Z6m sellphone to listen to
streaming radio in the headsets. Boot the Linux tablet and pop up
Streamtuner app the Linux geniuses wrote. Pick a station from the
thousands it provides access to and click PLAY. When the stream comes
on, lock the touchscreen and keys and put it in the carrying case I use
for it. The Alltel internet over the sellphone keeps the stream running
nicely while I'm cruising around listening to real cowboy and country and
Texas Swing from KSEY, Seymour, Texas IN COWBOY COUNTRY!...(C;
(http://www.radioksey.com) give a listen....great little rural station
run by real humans the old fashioned way! Seymour's mayor even comes on
to invite you to town and sit a spell...(c;

"Larry" <noone@home.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9AC69E0D7CD5Anoonehomecom@208.49.80.253...
> "lobo" <el_lobo@nowhere.net> wrote in news:dwP7k.5299$L_.894
> @flpi150.ffdc.sbc.com:
>
>> Does it fit you well under a helmet?
>> I use a HJC modular.
>>
>
> I wear a full helmet in the winter. It's a cheap Chinese helmet, not one
> of those that looks like we're already going a gazillion km/sec near
> light speed....It's just a regular motorcycle helmet that covers my ears.
> Too hot at 99F in the SC sun all summer, I move to an open "cop top", one
> of those turtle tops like the cops wear and take off the side curtains to
> let some air in. It's really hot and humid in summer, here.
>
> The S9 fits fine up into the full helmet, but you lose control of the
> buttons, especially the ones for volume. Luckily, I can control the
> volume of what the little Sony is plugged into and leave the volume of
> the headset up full. I then adjust both the sellphone and the stereo
> source to get a balance between them, so loss of the headset's controls
> on each earphone isn't that important. What is lost is the microphone,
> which is located in the end of the left (I think) earphone. There is no
> boom mic on the S9. That's fine in a quiet car or walking around unless
> it's a noisy environment. But, I don't answer calls if I'm on the bike,
> so it really doesn't matter. The earphone ringing just lets me know I
> missed a call and to look at the caller ID and voicemail when I stop to
> see if it's important.
>
> As far as playing music inside the helmet, it's great. The full helmet's
> padding easily accepts the narrow, flexible S9 earphone arms from the
> receiver/battery bubble, which sits outside my full helmet right under
> the rear edge of it.
>
> I've got some areas of the city where there is excessive noise on 2400
> Mhz, making the headphone balk playing music. The cure is to hang the
> little Sony transmitter down the back of my shirt nearer the headphone's
> antenna under my t-shirt, out of the wind. It only happens rarely, but
> if you do this and suddenly the music balks, move the Sony to a different
> location so it has a stronger signal. Oh, and don't try to operate the
> Sony BT transmitter right beside your BT sellphone, either. The
> transmitter of one jams the receiver of the other and that will make it
> balk.
>
> I use a Nokia N800 Linux internet tablet, in addition to the MotoROKR Z6m
> sellphone, for MP3 playing. The N800 has 32GB of SDHC cards in it a vast
> movie/music machine...(c; To play N800's music with the Sony BT
> transmitter, I put them both in the underseat trunk of my Honda Reflex
> 250 scooter in random play or playlist play. I can also use the BT
> connected internet from Alltel through the Z6m sellphone to listen to
> streaming radio in the headsets. Boot the Linux tablet and pop up
> Streamtuner app the Linux geniuses wrote. Pick a station from the
> thousands it provides access to and click PLAY. When the stream comes
> on, lock the touchscreen and keys and put it in the carrying case I use
> for it. The Alltel internet over the sellphone keeps the stream running
> nicely while I'm cruising around listening to real cowboy and country and
> Texas Swing from KSEY, Seymour, Texas IN COWBOY COUNTRY!...(C;
> (http://www.radioksey.com) give a listen....great little rural station
> run by real humans the old fashioned way! Seymour's mayor even comes on
> to invite you to town and sit a spell...(c;

Thanks for taking the time to detail the information Larry. Looks like that
will be the direction I will take.

Boy is it a small world. Seymour is about 150 miles from me and Cowboy
Country it is around these parts. Love listening to those small town
stations. Much more laid back lifestyle. Where else can you see horses being
ridden in town. Chuckled the other evening when in the Stockyards in Fort
Worth seeing the horses moving faster than the traffic.

A few friends of mine and I take a motorcycle trip to the Big Bend area of
Texas once a year http://www.visitbigbend.com. We stay outside of Fort Davis
http://www.fortdavis.com/. Only one FM radio station for miles there and it
just went online within the last couple of years. Out of Marfa
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/national/12radio.html

Ray

"lobo" <el_lobo@nowhere.net> wrote in
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> Boy is it a small world. Seymour is about 150 miles from me and Cowboy
> Country it is around these parts. Love listening to those small town
> stations. Much more laid back lifestyle. Where else can you see horses
> being ridden in town. Chuckled the other evening when in the
> Stockyards in Fort Worth seeing the horses moving faster than the
> traffic.
>
>

I called the station with Skype one night and talked with its owner for
nearly two hours while he was on the Texas network they play at night.
We had a great time as I was in broadcasting for many years in the 60's-
70's on and off.

What I'd like to do before fuel is just too high to buy is to drive out
there and have lunch with the old folks at the community center that KSEY
promotes the menu of every day around 10AM, inviting the whole town for
the $2.99 lunch special, under 55 pay a little more...(c;

Then, there's some kind of diner that advertises on KSEY quite a bit for
dinner after thanking the girls at the bank for supporting the seniors
telling us their future plans on KSEY. The station is run by a bunch of
school kids in the afternoon after classes you can see on the "staff"
webpage. KSEY does a great amount of community service and it's great
fun listening to the school kids announcing their various ball games,
live, instead of some professional talking head that sounds like a robot.
Sometimes they freeze up and can't think of anything to say. Been there,
done that, at 5000 watts for the whole region to hear...(c;

I've looked over the town, closely, with Google Earth, my way of snooping
into your yard from space. I was born in a small hamlet in the Finger
Lakes region of upstate NY and raised in a small town called Moravia
nestled in between two 800' glacial hills that are simply beautiful when
all the leaves on them turn color in an explosion in the fall before the
snow sets in, on the south end of Owasco Lake. Town is still about 1500
people, but they made a terrible mistake selling a farm off to the NY
State Prison System and now you have to add 5000 felons to the town's
ultimate population, especially as far as the sewer system and its effect
on the poor lake fishing is ruined. Money won out over logic. It was a
great place, as I'm sure Seymour is, to raise kids in a rural
environment. I've always felt lucky to be raised in Moravia...especially
in the 1950's and early 1960's when the Feds came to raid the Senior
Class of '64 boys for cannon fodder in Vietnam, bad timing on our part.
Vietnam was the government's attempt to solve some of the baby boomer
retirement crisis. They killed off 50,000 of us or so and forgot a lot
they left behind. I beat the draft by about 2 hours by joining the Navy,
which is how I ended up in Charleston, SC. Having found such a great
place, even moving away 4 times since 1966, I've always come back.
Charleston is a city that acts like it's a town and simply absorbs anyone
who wishes to move in, the number one hospitality town in the country for
years on end.

I have some friends who are well off and retired. Each year they throw a
dart at a US/Canada map. Where the dart lands is where vacations go.
About 8 years ago the dart hit an Indian reservation in SD. They stayed
an extra 2 weeks the people were so friendly. Another year it landed in
a large lake in MN, so they rented a houseboat for a month on that lake
and had a great time, visiting nearly everyone who had a dock!...(c;

Wish I could do the same......ON TOPIC! - WITH MY BLUETOOTH TRANSMITTER
AND MOTOROLA S9!...(C;

"Larry" <noone@home.com> wrote in message
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> "lobo" <el_lobo@nowhere.net> wrote in
> news:KqT7k.14128$Ri.3755@flpi146.ffdc.sbc.com:
>
>> Boy is it a small world. Seymour is about 150 miles from me and Cowboy
>> Country it is around these parts. Love listening to those small town
>> stations. Much more laid back lifestyle. Where else can you see horses
>> being ridden in town. Chuckled the other evening when in the
>> Stockyards in Fort Worth seeing the horses moving faster than the
>> traffic.
>>
>>
>
> I called the station with Skype one night and talked with its owner for
> nearly two hours while he was on the Texas network they play at night.
> We had a great time as I was in broadcasting for many years in the 60's-
> 70's on and off.
>
> What I'd like to do before fuel is just too high to buy is to drive out
> there and have lunch with the old folks at the community center that KSEY
> promotes the menu of every day around 10AM, inviting the whole town for
> the $2.99 lunch special, under 55 pay a little more...(c;
>
> Then, there's some kind of diner that advertises on KSEY quite a bit for
> dinner after thanking the girls at the bank for supporting the seniors
> telling us their future plans on KSEY. The station is run by a bunch of
> school kids in the afternoon after classes you can see on the "staff"
> webpage. KSEY does a great amount of community service and it's great
> fun listening to the school kids announcing their various ball games,
> live, instead of some professional talking head that sounds like a robot.
> Sometimes they freeze up and can't think of anything to say. Been there,
> done that, at 5000 watts for the whole region to hear...(c;
>
> I've looked over the town, closely, with Google Earth, my way of snooping
> into your yard from space. I was born in a small hamlet in the Finger
> Lakes region of upstate NY and raised in a small town called Moravia
> nestled in between two 800' glacial hills that are simply beautiful when
> all the leaves on them turn color in an explosion in the fall before the
> snow sets in, on the south end of Owasco Lake. Town is still about 1500
> people, but they made a terrible mistake selling a farm off to the NY
> State Prison System and now you have to add 5000 felons to the town's
> ultimate population, especially as far as the sewer system and its effect
> on the poor lake fishing is ruined. Money won out over logic. It was a
> great place, as I'm sure Seymour is, to raise kids in a rural
> environment. I've always felt lucky to be raised in Moravia...especially
> in the 1950's and early 1960's when the Feds came to raid the Senior
> Class of '64 boys for cannon fodder in Vietnam, bad timing on our part.
> Vietnam was the government's attempt to solve some of the baby boomer
> retirement crisis. They killed off 50,000 of us or so and forgot a lot
> they left behind. I beat the draft by about 2 hours by joining the Navy,
> which is how I ended up in Charleston, SC. Having found such a great
> place, even moving away 4 times since 1966, I've always come back.
> Charleston is a city that acts like it's a town and simply absorbs anyone
> who wishes to move in, the number one hospitality town in the country for
> years on end.
>
> I have some friends who are well off and retired. Each year they throw a
> dart at a US/Canada map. Where the dart lands is where vacations go.
> About 8 years ago the dart hit an Indian reservation in SD. They stayed
> an extra 2 weeks the people were so friendly. Another year it landed in
> a large lake in MN, so they rented a houseboat for a month on that lake
> and had a great time, visiting nearly everyone who had a dock!...(c;
>
> Wish I could do the same......ON TOPIC! - WITH MY BLUETOOTH TRANSMITTER
> AND MOTOROLA S9!...(C;

There is a lot to say about small town America. So much more friendly
feeling than larger cities. I really enjoy riding through those small towns,
some in good shape and others not so much. Seeing where the locals eat
always says "stop the bike and get off awhile". Nothing better that good ol'
home made pie and sweet tea after a hot ride. When passing through a town
that has been wasting away with empty store fronts and such, makes me wonder
about all the history that happened there in the past. Saddens me though
that a much simpler time has gone away in those areas.

I would like to visit the Carolina's sometime. Sounds like a really nice
area with good riding areas not too far away.

I was raised in the 60's and miss the nickel Nehi soda days. My draft notice
came a few days after the birthdate lottery drawing in Summer of 1970.
Closest I ever came to winning anything at the time with my number being #2.
Joined the Naval Reserves and spent the next six years as a weekend warrior.

Anyways, back to the original subject. I have ordered the Sony TMR-BT10 and
have my eye on the Motorokr S9. Hopefully all can be bought for less than
$75.
Ray