Good day all

the District has just acquired a set of six Motorola XNTiD hand held Radios.  These are available for Groups and Sections to borrow to assist with their events and activities. They are a useful addition to our safety equipment.

·         They are licence free and anyone can operate them.
·         They have a range up to 10Km on open ground (more likely to be 3 to 5Km on the moors)  and 1Km in built up areas.
·         They are built to military standards and are virtually indestructible.
·         Battery life should be around 8 to 10 hours.
·         They have 8 available channels.
·         They have voice scrambling on the working channel (channel 4) which prevents anyone outside these 6 handsets from listening in.

They can be used by our sailors to prepare for their VHF Licence Course.

I am looking at providing an alternative learning programme for the Scout Communications Badge.  This will involve using these radios to learn radio procedures, phonetics. emergency procedures etc.  I am happy to assist with this training.

If anyone wishes to borrow these please drop me a line.
Yours in Scouting
John

John Hopkins
Assistant District Commissioner (Adult Training)