Thanks Compusmith, I was on the phone with Apple today 2 x and the result is they are aware of this issue, and will let me know if the software update coming will solve this. I tried many things with them like network reset, wifi on and off, apps off, forgetting the bluetooth and re-linking it. all to the same issue where it works randomly. some calls are GREAT, some are fair and some are marginal. In all instances I can hear my party GREAT, it's them that can not hear me.
I will keep you posted on how this progresses.