SINCE 1964. Making Good ~ Great

We can trace our direct two way radio communications ancestry back to 1964 with the launch of Radiofon, then renamed Plymouth Telecom Services (PTS) which was established in 1964 by Mr David Rawlings. PTS became part of Tacticom in 2000.

 

In 1978 PTS submitted an application to the UK DTI radio communications division (part of the department of trade and industry) to use an early version of five tone signalling to allow hand portable and mobile radios to connect to PMR repeaters on a "cellular" basis, rather than a trunked radio basis. In 1982 PTS developed the call-buoy system, a remote stand-alone pmr based radio alarm system for boats and yachts tied up in ports or marinas, this project was eventually licensed by the DTI and a thousand call-buoys were manufactured. In 1995~97 Tacticom Radio Systems and PTS co-developed a radio/video CCTV system capable of monitoring and sending pictures over pmr/pmr repeaters at a 1 picture frame per 8 second refresh rate, which was faster and much more economical than any other technology at that time. 

 

Since 1999 and long before any radio dealership independently tested two way radios themselves, Tacticom was typically testing radios to destruction and back! Tacticom has conducted these tests on a regular basis and we keep adding to the range and depth of the tests we conduct.  

 

We test all the known and lesser known makes and models of two way radio and by consistent testing over our well proven and known ground (our proving grounds) we find the point where they FAIL! We dismiss all the the models of all the better known brands that cannot continue to work up to the various known "drop off points", we have a storeroom full of these failed radio models.

 

We test hand portable radios in unique ways, methods which involve real world testing to an extreme level which quickly uncovers hidden weaknesses in all areas of the radios design, construction and operation. Weaknesses that MIL Spec 810 G simply does not uncover! We offer advice and solutions to these weaknesses and some manufacturers adopt these solutions - OTHERS DO NOT AND MANY OF THE OEM/RE-BADGED HANDSETS CURRENTLY ON SALE HAVE BEEN TESTED BY TACTICOM AND HAVE FAILED OUR TESTS.

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Tacticom was the joint 1st distributor in the UK for HYT products and was instrumental in co-developing and bringing to the UK market the Rexon RL328. Rexon UK was a joint project between Tacticom and Rexontec of Taiwan. That was back in 2004 and the RL328 was a superb hand portable radio and one of the first hand portable radios able to challenge the big four or five manufacturers at that time. 

 

Since the launch of Rexon UK in late 2004 we have trialled and tested hundreds of makes and models of PMR & DMR hand portable radios and around 95% of hand held PMR/DMR radios tested fail our tests for one reason or another.

 

Surprisingly other companies often adopt these failed radios and are happy to retail them, WE DO NOT!​ "We lead where others follow" is more than just words in this context.