Thursday 28 February 2008

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

I'm doing some Search Engine Optimisation work for a company I have known for years through different jobs.


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