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Knight Division TacticalDoes KDT provide handheld radio caches?
Handheld Radio Caches (VHF / UHF / P25)
Yes.
KDT provides handheld radio caches, kits of VHF, UHF and P25 digital radios with batteries, chargers and accessories, programmed with your incident's frequencies from the communications plan and tracked out to every user.
Typical configuration
- Bands
- VHF 136–174 MHz, UHF about 400–470 MHz, 700/800 MHz P25 on request
- Modes
- Analog narrowband (12.5 kHz), P25 Phase 1 conventional, P25 Phase 1/2 trunked
- Programming
- Multi-zone layout built from the incident's ICS 205, tones and NACs set
- Kit
- Radios in hard cases, multi-unit chargers, spare Li-ion batteries, speaker mics, harnesses
- Power
- About 5 W handheld output (typical); a full shift or more per battery at normal duty
- Security
- AES encryption when keys are issued by the system's agency
Radios run an incident. A radio cache is a set of handheld radios in hard cases with spare batteries, multi-unit chargers, speaker mics and chest harnesses, ready to hand out to everyone who needs one. KDT supplies them in the band and mode your incident runs on: VHF high band (136–174 MHz); UHF (roughly 400–470 MHz) for many city and industrial systems; and P25 digital, the public safety interoperability standard, in conventional or trunked mode.
Every radio is programmed before it ships, from your Incident Radio Communications Plan (ICS 205): command and tactical channels, air-to-ground, national incident channels, local agency and mutual-aid channels, with the right tones or network access codes, in a channel layout crews recognize. Encryption is loaded when the agency that holds the keys provides them. Every radio stays on frequencies the incident is authorized to use, and when the plan changes mid-incident, we reprogram.
We issue and track radios by serial number, keep batteries charged and rotated, swap any radio that fails and account for the whole cache at demob. The cache can travel with our technicians and portable repeaters, so the system arrives working.
Available as
- VHF analog caches
- UHF caches
- P25 conventional digital caches
- P25 trunked radios where the system owner grants access
- Mixed-band caches for multi-agency incidents
- Intrinsically safe radios for hazardous atmospheres
- Mobile and base station radios
What's included
- Programming from your ICS 205 before shipping
- Delivery to the incident
- Issue and check-in by serial number
- Battery charging and rotation
- Reprogramming when the comms plan changes
- Swap-out of failed radios and full accounting at demob
Where it's used
- Field teams and divisions
- Camp logistics and security
- Hurricane field teams and points of distribution
- Spill shoreline teams and vessels
- Hazmat entry teams
- Security and contractor teams
Questions, answered.
Does KDT provide handheld radio caches?
Yes. We supply caches of VHF, UHF and P25 handheld radios with batteries, chargers and accessories, programmed for your incident and tracked to every user.
Can you program radios for our incident's frequencies?
Yes. We program every radio from your ICS 205 communications plan, including tones and access codes, before it ships, keep every radio on frequencies the incident is authorized to use, and reprogram when the plan changes.
Should we use VHF, UHF or P25?
Match what the agencies on the incident use. Many cities and industrial sites use UHF or 700/800 MHz; P25 is the digital standard for public safety interoperability. Mixed caches are common.
How many radios come in a cache?
As many as you need. Kits are typically built in cases of about 8 to 16 radios with matching chargers and batteries, and we size the total from your staffing.
Can you provide encrypted radios?
Yes. P25 radios support encryption. Keys are issued by the agency that owns the system, and we load them when they're provided.
Need it on your incident? Say the word.
Add it to your request with anything else you need, then send it all at once. We'll come back with what we can put where, and when.