GPS Tracking Solutions for Mototrbo Radios

NeoTerra Systems is a provider of GPS Fleet Management solutions for the MOTOTRBO
two-way radio system.

neoNytro functionality includes text messaging, location
based services, telemetry and automatic registration services.
neoNytro is available in Standalone or Enterprise (Client/Server) versions.

Mapping for neoNytro is provided by either Microsoft MapPoint or customer
supplied raster images, making neoNytro ideal for either North American,
European, or International markets where MapPoint is not available.

Visit www.comsco.com for more information on NeoNytro GPS Tracking solutions.

Radio Hire for Events

Radio's for any purpose event, on long or short term hire.

If you are planning an event, no matter how small, you will be aware of the importance of good communication during both the planning and on the day organisation stages.

We offer a complete radio hire solution, whatever your needs. If you need a temporary communications infrastructure setting up, or you just want to extend your existing communications through additional radio's then we can help. Just give us a call on 020 7515 6644 and we will be happy to discuss your requirements and provide a solution and no obligation quote.

Our event hire packages cater for any size of event. We can supply just two radios, to hundreds on either a weekly hire or monthly hire basis. To supplement each handheld we supply our radios with standard ear pieces, a spare battery (per radio) and a desktop charger. Additional accessories are available, just ask us for more information when you call

Our Radio Hire services can provide you with:

· Local repeater stations and aerial masts for greater range.
· Noise-canceling headsets for extreme noise environments.
· ATEX radios for hazardous environments.
· Earpieces and headsets for convenient or covert communications.
· Long or short-term hires.

Still not convinced that hiring Motorola Radios is the right option? Visit the Benefits of Radio Hire page to find out more.

For more more information on our Radio Hire services please contact us on 020 7515 6644

Introducing the Motorola DTR2450

Do you speak Digital? Well now you can, because Motorola have introduced their DTR Range (DTR2430 & DTR2450) which will offer New, innovative, pace-setting Digital Technology for On-Site Applications. The DTR Series brings digital technology to the unlicensed on-site market with NEW capabilities and BETTER performance.

Features:
• New, innovative, pace-setting digital on-site two-way radio
• Enhanced coverage
• Approximately 20 hours operation per charge
• Loud and clear, right up to the edge of coverage
• 2400 MHz Band
• 100mW
• No License required
• No monthly fees
• Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS)
• Digital 1:1 Private Call
• Digital 1: Many Group Call (Public Groups & Private Groups)
• Text (SMS) Messaging
• Over-the-Air Management Capabilities
• Unit to Unit Cloning (via cable)

Additional Features:
• Daily Alarm
• Group Only (no Private Calling)
• Set Backlight Timer
• User Specific Alert Tone
• Set Display Contrast
• Set Keypad Volume
• Set Text Size
• Set Alert Tone Level
• Screen Prompts
• Advanced Management Features enabled in Programming Menu
• Over The Air Contact: Update Add contact details for a new radio
• Remote Monitoring
• Over the Air Time Update: Synchronize Time/Date of all units
• Radio History: View Transmit, Receive and Standby history for a radio
• Remote Disable / Enable

Standard Package Comprises:
• Radio
• 1 Hour Charger + mains adapters
• High Capacity Li-Ion Battery
• Drop In Charging Tray
• Swivel Carry Holster
• User Guide on CD-ROM with Quick Start Guide

Radio Hire is a great alternative to purchasing. When you hire radio's to form your communications infrastructure you don't need to worry about capital. with just one low, per radio, per week payment you can hire as many, or as few radio's as you need for your event.

Motorola CP040 Product Review

Designed with small and medium-sized warehousing, agriculture, security, light industry and services customers in mind, the four channel CP040 portable radio requires minimal training and keeps team members in touch without distracting them with complicated features. Management can monitor all voice traffic and get a message to the team in seconds, however large the site.

Features:
• Programmable Channel Spacing
• 4 channels
• Two channel buttons
• Private Line™ (PL), Quik Call II™ and MDC signalling
• Variable Squelch Settings
• Choice of Unmute/Mute Rules
• Channel free/busy monitor
• Busy Channel Lockout
• Repeater Talkaround
• Receive Only Channel
• Time Out Timer
• High/Low Transmit Power Selection

Standard Package Comprises:
• Radio
• Slim Li-ION battery
• Rapid Charger
• Standard Antenna
• Beltclip
• User Guide

Radio Hire is a great alternative to purchasing. When you hire radio's to form your communications infrastructure you don't need to worry about capital. with just one low, per radio, per week payment you can hire as many, or as few radio's as you need for your event.

Motorola GP344 Professional Radio

The new GP344 professional radio from Motorola has taken the features and quality of the existing GP range, and reduced in size to give a radio that is both small and smart.

The Motorola GP344 is designed for professionals who need a radio that is feature-packed but which is also light and unobtrusive.

Features:
• Signalling – Private Line and 5-tone
• Channel Scan
• VOX
• Xpand Voice Compression
• Low-Level Expansion
• Whisper Mode
• Adjustable Power Levels
• Emergency Signalling
• Programmable Channel Spacing
• Lone Worker
• Talkaround
• Call Forward

Standard Package Comprises:
• Radio
• Li-Ion Battery
• VHF Antenna (NAD6502)
• UHF Antenna (PMAE4003)
• Beltclip
• User Guide

Radio Hire is often the most cost effective way to purchase your radio equipment. For more information call The Communications Company on 020 7515 6644

MOTOTRBO Digital Two-Way Radios

The next-generation professional two-way radio communications solution is here, with more performance, productivity and value—thanks to digital technology that delivers increased capacity and spectrum efficiency, integrated data communications and enhanced voice communications.

The new DP 3601 Digital Two Way Radio offers a new and better way for organisations to communicate — delivering an affordable, flexible and highly reliable communications solution whilst supporting the power and range available only in licensed bands.

What's new and better?

The DP 3601 offers enhanced Digital performance and new features including:

Digital Audio quality - Provides clearer voice communications over a greater range than comparable analogue radios with digital error correction and static and noise rejection.

Offers twice the calling capacity for the price of one license using TDMA technology

Integrated GPS module opens up for new applications for tracking and location services together with stronger security

Software configurable for analogue or digital operation - facilitating a smooth migration from analogue to digital

Offers enhanced battery life - Digital TDMA two-way radios can operate up to 40 percent longer between recharges as compared to typical analogue radios

Mototrbo integrates voice and data to increase operational efficiency and support a wide range of applications. Through Motorola’s Application Partner Programme customers and system integrators can have access to advanced features and build on their investment

Radios in Leisure

The Communications Company understands the needs of the the Leisure industry and has worked closely with the UK's number one Theme Park for a number of years providing sales, repairs, radio hire and equipment installations on site.

The challenge of a theme park is the layout of the site. Different areas are built at different levels which offers a challenge in getting the infrastructure just right through surveys and knowledge of the site.

The Theme Park industry is also intense on a day to day business, and radio communications play an imperative part every operation from admissions to retail to the rides themselves not only to ensure the smooth running of the attraction but also playing a huge part in the health and safety requirements of the site.

Occasionally the park holds events that require a large number of radios to be made available for short term hire. We supply Motorola GP340 radios operating on the sites own frequencies, providing them with backup batteries, accessories and chargers. All the equipment that we send out on hire is given a full service before it leaves our offices and any faulty equipment can be exchanged as part of the hire agreement.

"The Communications Company have provided us with first class service over the years and we have built up a very good relationship with them. We trust them to handle all our Radio Communication requirements from installing and maintaining our repeaters, to supplying a large volume of radios on short term hire for our fireworks events and concerts."

Our new website

We have just launched our new web site. The site is still found at www.comsco.com

We hope that you find the site easy to use. For ease of use we have provided some quick links below.

Radio Hire - Hire Radios from just £5.00 per radio per week. This includes ear peice and charger

Radio Sales - Want to buy a new radio? Contact us for information

We have also added some industry pages to illustrate the use of radios in different environments. We hope you find this information useful.

We will shortly be adding some radio reviews to our blog, so watch this space.

Pub Watch catches vandal before radio even turned on!

Out just before Christmas I was delivering radios to the pubs in Leek, Staffordshire, to prepare for a demo over the Christmas period.

The Motorola GP340 radios were to be used by 10 pubs on the Shopwatch radio net. The base station is a Motorola Eurobase sited near the market place.As I opened the door to one pub an individual charged past me smashing the window in the door.

When I found the landlord he was on the phone reporting the incident to the Police. When the publican had finished on the phone I handed over his Walkie Talkie, turned it on and demonstrated how to use it.When walking over to my next pub delivery I saw the very same individual who had broken the window at the last pub walking in and up to the bar.I turned on the radio I was delivering and called through to the previous publican and told him his vandal was in my present pub. He called the Police and as I walked onto the street the Police were walking in to arrest the vandal.
Pubwatch had its first success before even going live!

Shopwatch Scores Major Success

Leek's Shopwatch scheme scored a major success last week as a suspected shoplifter was arrested after taking booze from the Co-op store on Portland Street, Leek.

Just before lunchtime on Monday, March 7, the Co-op reported a shoplifter who bolted with bottles and other goods.Using the Shopwatch radio, a Motorola GP340 handheld radio, the Co-op alerted the Police, gave out a full description of the offenders and car registration and two men were stopped in Cheddleton and in custody within 15 minutes on the incident.Leek Police inspector Amanda Davies praised the actions of PC Louise Hancock who arrested the men in connection with the thefts.

Town Centre Co-ordinator Mike Cozens said the incident was a victory for the shopwatch scheme."At the moment there are 23 retailers engaged in the scheme. The system has a Motorola Eurobase and 4 stack aerial in the town centre which gives coverage 2 to 3 miles outside the town boundary."

Cresta Critical Radio Communications Part 2

You run a few steps and then dive onto your toboggan. You are immediately in the kamakazi position and picking up speed. Before the first corner you move back on the toboggan so your feet and the knives at the rear of the runners can steer you around the corner. Three corners and you can go forward briefly past the clubhouse before the famous Shuttlecock corner.

This is where your ride can end early in the straw.If you havent raked off enough speed you leave the run like a pip out of a lemon.Once you are through Shuttlecock you can to a degree enjoy the rest of the run before you cross the three red lines at finish where you are at maximum speed some 70 mph 9 inches above the ice. Then it is scrub off speed time until you hit the mats at finish.

You might be quick enough with getting your helmet off to hear the arbeiter call over his Motorola radio, "Run clear". Safety is paramount and the walkie talkies ensure that a rider can be confident that he will not hurtle around a corner and find an obstruction whether that be another rider or as once happened Rudolph!

The Advantages of Walkie Talkies

A walkie-talkie is a hand-held portable, two-way radio transceiver. The first walkie-talkies were developed for military use during World War II, and spread to public safety and eventually commercial and jobsite work after the war. Major characteristics include a half-duplex channel (only one radio transmits at a time, though any number can listen) and a push-to-talk switch that starts transmission. Typical walkie-talkies resemble a telephone handset, possibly slightly larger but still a single unit, with an antenna sticking out of the top. Where a phone's earpiece is only loud enough to be heard by the user, a walkie-talkie's built-in speaker can be heard by the user and those in his immediate vicinity (ear peices are optional!)

If you enjoy outdoor activities, enjoy riding your motorbike at weekends, work at a college or school, perhaps you work in a pub, club? Are you at home caring for a child perhaps? if you answered yes to any of the above then you would find a walkie talkie a very useful gadget. You may also need a walkie talkie if you move around a lot in your job. The benefit over mobile phones is that they are license free and do not have any associated call charges.

Walkie-Talkies are useful for short term events as there are no license fee's required to operate them. They also work back to back so you don't need any fixed repeating equipment.

Maybe now is a good time to think about using Walkie-Talkies for your site wide communications.......?

Cresta Critical Radio Communications

Riding the famous Cresta Run in St Moritz is not where you would expect to find critical radio communications.

When you wait your turn to be called to the start box over the tannoy you have time to think about of speeds reaching 70 to 80 mph down an ice run on a skeleton toboggan head first 9 inches above the ice!Your name is called, you haul your 37kg toboggan to the area marked with a blue line and a wooden barrier in front.

Over the Motorola radio the arbeiter will call your name to Tower. The man before has disappeared down the run, You put your toboggan down and wait for a call over the radio of, "Run clear". Immediately you will hear a bell ding, the arbeiter lifts the barrier and you are ready to launch yourself down the run towards Shuttlecock corner and the end some 1,200 yards away.

Part 2 coming soon....

Walkie Talkies, Camera, Action!

Today's blog entry takes a slightly light hearted approach, but something that thought was highly relative in defining the importance of Walkie Talkie Communications in the film industry.

Back in 2005, filming on "Superman Returns" suffered a slight delay after thieves stole a batch of walkie talkies - and set about impersonating crew members. The mischievous jokers set about saying 'Cut!' and 'Action!' over the walkie talkies, forcing filming on the Bryan Singer-directed comic book adaptation, starring Brandon Routh, to be temporarily stopped.

The pranksters' fake orders were proving dangerous as the movie crew were shooting an action sequence involving a Mustang hurtling down some steps and landing between a gaggle of extras. When the sports car stopped in a dangerous position a couple of times following the shout of 'Cut!', movie bosses decided to stop shooting rather than risk serious injury.

Crew members on the Australian set then changed the radio frequency on their walkie talkies before recommencing the shoot. News of the robbery wasn't reported to police.

Hire vs Purchase

One of the most important questions when it comes to buying new communications equipment is the decision between hire and purchase.

The main benefits of Radio Hire are as follows:

• You get the latest technology
• There is no capital outlay - its a fixed manageable cost that you can stop at anytime
• Repairs are usually included in the price

Even more so, for short term events such as the London 2012 Olympics, the focus on hiring equipment becomes even stronger. On such a large scale event it is imperetive that radio communications ensure the smooth running of the day to day operations. With hire radios supplied by a recognised communications reseller you can be sure that, in the event of equipment failure, you radios will be replaced promptly.

Motorola Digital Radio Success

A well established client in the Construction Industry recently called us to revisit their site in the City of London where they had been hiring walkie-talkie radios for a couple of months. The problem was that over a period of the construction the radio coverage had degraded.

The solution that we tried was to exchange the analogue base station with a new Motorola Mototrbo digital base station keeping the exisiting aerial system and a pair of Motorola DP3400 UHF handheld radios.The coverage in the marginal areas was dramatically improved.

The digital equipment is more expensive but the client is happy to pay more and pleased that he had been hiring and able to upgrade without being left with redundant analogue radios that we have put back into our hire fleet.

Cold Radios

An old Army colleague a couple of years ago asked me if we could support their Everest expedition with radio communications.We were glad to help old friends and supplied a Motorola VHF Euro base station, cable and Yagi directional antenna with 12 Motorola GP340 handheld radios all packed in Peli Cases.

Everest base camp has power from generators and the climbers were able to power the base station and charge the radios.Two members of the expedition summitted and the radios worked excellently and proved their worth when the climbers found two Indian climbers who needed assistance on the lower slopes whose own radios had failed. Our radios were used to alert the Indian expedition organisers who were then able to send assistance to their climbers.

Fortunately we had been able to advise our expedition that the radios and spare batteries needed to be kept inside their jackets or the cold would affect the batteries. Payment to our radio hire dept was an invitation to visit Highgrove and meet Prince Charles who supported the expedition. For more information on our radio hire visit www.comsco.com

Two Way Radios

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The main aim of the website is to promote their Radio Hire services, along with the sales and repairs side to the business.

I used to work at a theme park and we found that the radio communications were vital to the day to day running of the park. During busy event days we literally had to get hundreds of radios in on short term hire and The Communications Company never failed to deliver.

Take a look at their website and see what they can do for you.
The Communications Company