Road Noise: Hard Upper Half Doors vs Full Doors

I have half doors with 6 year old, clouded Smittybilt brand soft uppers velcroed onto what I believe are OEM frames, and I have a set of full doors that the LJ came with. Full doors have been off for almost a year, currently taking up space in the attic. I did completely fine driving it in cold weather over the winter, and for the rare occasions I have all the windows on in summer, they do well enough to stay comfortable with the AC on.

...but as we've discussed, they're noisy as hell, and road trips of any length I'm wearing earplugs and cranking my stereo to hear through the plugs. If the bulldawg fiberglass ones were anywhere close to full doors in sound level, or at least quiet enough that I could drive for 5 hours without cranking up my tinnitus, I could feel ok with selling the full doors and just use the hard uppers for longer road trips, and build a storage rack to store them in the Jeep so I can take them off and keep them from getting beat up when I get to my destination and go wheel.

Kurt_S said:

Mac... once again you're my hero. I'm running a Midland but I don't understand how those connect. Is there an external module and how do you connect more than one person?

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Intercom has ports to plug the headphones into, only the driver (blue ports) and codriver (red ports) get push to talk capability which allows them to talk over the GMRS. The other headsets have internal only communication and get the crew (yellow ports) as shown below.

The intercom connects to your phone via Bluetooth for calls and music.



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Kurt_S said:

Mac... once again you're my hero. I'm running a Midland but I don't understand how those connect. Is there an external module and how do you connect more than one person?

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The Rugged Radio handheld cable works on the connector on the side of the MTX275/575 just fine...only issue is you've got one cable to the handset and another to the side of the handset.

Rugged was able to get the PTT to work...I wasn't. Basically you have a button you can Velcro to your steering wheel to trigger the radio.

When you're in intercom mode it's voice activated...you just talk...if the two of you want to trigger the radio you hit the PTT button and you both can hear talk on the GMRS Midland.

Here's a video of me aqwardly hitting the PTT button on both the Rugged and Midland to get it to work...I think my handset it broken.


-Mac

macleanflood said:

The Rugged Radio handheld cable works on the connector on the side of the MTX275/575 just fine...only issue is you've got one cable to the handset and another to the side of the handset.

Rugged was able to get the PTT to work...I wasn't. Basically you have a button you can Velcro to your steering wheel to trigger the radio.

When you're in intercom mode it's voice activated...you just talk...if the two of you want to trigger the radio you hit the PTT button and you both can hear talk on the GMRS Midland.

Here's a video of me aqwardly hitting the PTT button on both the Rugged and Midland to get it to work...I think my handset it broken.

-Mac

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You need to get PTT working it’s one of the best features.

I put my PTT button on the shifter as I didn’t want cords on the steering wheel.

Mrs Apps PTT is on the dash grab bar.