Short-term radio hire
Festivals, races, traffic management, construction, security, film and TV, and other jobs that only need radios for a short time.
Gould Electronics hires professional two-way radios, PoC radios, and a custom-made Starlink box, for the length of the job. A weekend festival, a marathon, a car trial, a road closure or a day on a film set: tell us the date, the site and how many people need to talk. The sets go out charged, programmed and labelled.
Festivals and outdoor events
Stewards, medical cover and stage crews can reach each other across the site, including places where the mobile signal drops out.
Traffic management
Marshals on a closure, a diversion or a set of roadworks stay in contact from one end of the job to the other. The handhelds are straightforward to use in hi-vis and gloves.
Construction
A crew on a short job can talk between the gate, the banksman and the site office, then hand the radios back when the work is done.
Security
Door teams, stewards and event security stay on one channel, so a problem at a gate or in the crowd is passed on straight away.
Film and TV
Camera, sound, runners and floor managers stay in touch across a location or a studio, without shouting over the set.
Short-term hire is used for
Events and sites
- Festivals and outdoor shows
- Traffic management and road closures
- Event security and stewarding
- Film and television locations
- Construction jobs that only last a few days
Races and sport
- Marathons and running events
- Cycle races
- Car trials and other motorsport
- Horse trials, match days and sporting events
Also hired
- Regattas and harbour events
- Agricultural and county shows
- Sports days, fairs and one-off events
- PoC radios, where the job is spread over a wide area
- Starlink internet hire, from £196 + VAT
What is supplied
- Analogue and digital handheld radios, with spare batteries and chargers
- PoC radios, which work over the mobile network
- Earpieces where the site is noisy
- Channels programmed and radios labelled before they leave us
- Hire for a day, a weekend, or a few weeks
- Delivery and collection, or pick-up from our workshop in Pool, Cornwall
PoC radios
PoC means push-to-talk over cellular. The handset uses the mobile phone network, so a marathon course, a film unit or a traffic job can stay in contact without a hilltop repeater. If you need PoC radios, say so in the notes on the form below.
Starlink internet hire
From £196 + VAT
This is a hire, for the length of the job. The kit is a custom-made Starlink box, and the service is Roam Unlimited, so the data is not capped. A site with little or no mobile signal can still get online.
On its own, the box is a single access point. It can also be combined with a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint link, so one box can cover a larger area and several remote locations.
How a hire is arranged
Tell us the job
Use the form further down, or call the sales team with the dates, the place and how many people need a radio.
We prepare the kit
We confirm what can be supplied, programme the channels and label each radio for the team using it.
Use it, then send it back
The radios cover the event. When it is over they come back to us, or you drop them at Pool.
Request a hire
Tell us what you need and when you need it. We will come back to you with what can be supplied.
A weekend hire is classed as 3 days. Collect from 10am on Friday and return on Monday before 1pm.
Or call +44 (0)1209-821804
