Licencing

All of our two way radios for hire are Private Business Radios - meaning they require programming to a licenced Ofcom frequency and are regulated due to their power output.  This guarantees you receive better range than unlicenced radios and also ensures that you wont receive interference from any other users nearby.

If you already have an ofcom licence, we can program radios to your existing frequencies, or if not, we can obtain a licence for you and manage it for renewals.  More information on Ofcom licensing can be found here

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Analogue vs Digital

The key difference between analogue and digital radio is the tolerance of external noise.  Digital radio can reduce unwanted background audio and focus on the operators speech providing clearer communication in noisy environments.

Another key difference is the behaviour of the two technologies towards the maximum range.  The audio clarity of an analogue radio will slowly deteriorate into ‘white noise’ until communication is no longer possible, where as a digital radio will remain loud and clear until the drop-off point at which communication will no longer be possible.

Analogue and digital radios are available as both (VHF) Very High Frequency and (UHF) Ultra High Frequency. VHF has a slight advantage at longer range and UHF is better at propagating in dense/confined areas due to the different behaviours of the radio waves.

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Emergency Functions

All of our handheld radios have programmable buttons - on some models there is an orange button which can be used for emergency alerting and on other models this can be a button of your choosing.

We can discuss with you and recommend the best emergency features for your needs but common features such as Emergency Alarm, Lone Worker and Man Down offer excellent solutions to a host of challenges on large scale operations.