Who are we and what can we do?

Tacticom Radio Systems along with our sister company Plymouth Telecom Services have been designing and servicing two way radio systems since 1964. For instance we designed and manufactured one of the first first yacht/boat alarm systems using PMR repeaters, then the "VIRAD" single frame CCTV video pictures over PMR repeaters (in the 90s) and the D-COM paging systems linked to fire alarm systems so as to offer vibration pager alerts to poor of hearing or deaf persons using public buildings,so we know a little bit about integration.

Around 2001 we were approached by the HYT (now HYTERA) distributor at that time to sell the HYT TC268 & 368 PMR portable, as usual with TACTICOM we took the radio apart for testing and inspection of the PCB and quality of manufacture, it looked really top notch but awfully familiar!! Further research by TACTICOM discovered that the HYT TC368 was a replica of the Kenwood TK361 SRBR. We advised the distributor and were typically ignored until a few months later when HYT was successfully sued in the High Court by Kenwood and the TC268/368 was forcibly removed from the UK market. A new distributor was appointed by HYT in early 2003 and a new TC265/365 was launched and we were instrumental in developing the HYT brand in those early days. HYT were not innovators then, rather they were copiers and their products borrowed much from their competitors. Much has changed in the proceeding 20 years and HYT(ERA) have came a long way, although Motorola may have something to say on that matter, Tacticom only uses certain HYTERA products for Systems Integration purposes.