Tait Sponsors Matukituki Charitable Trust with Mobile Radio Package
The mobile radio package, worth about $4000, has already been trialled in snowy conditions and at high altitude.
It's doubtful anyone will hear you screaming in the unpopulated Matukituki Valley wilderness of Wanaka's back and beyond. There's no cellphone coverage, no carrier pigeons and sending smoke signals could get you labelled a criminal or negligent nuisance.
Fortunately for New Zealand's outdoor community, there's another way to get attention. A two-way radio.
And happily for those in the southern boondocks, there's a company in a city about 500km away, that makes radios.
Tait Communications, at the end of August, donated the Matukituki Charitable Trust volunteers three bright orange, waterproof radio sets so they can communicate with each other while setting pest traps and counting birds and bats.
The mobile radio package, worth about $4000, has already been trialled in snowy conditions at high altitude.
The New Zealand Department of Conservation also uses Tait mobile radios and has given the trust permission to use its land mobile radio channels.
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