Bearcom preventive maintenanceBearCom’s preventive maintenance plans are designed to reduce the likelihood of your two-way radio network failing when you need it most. These plans have four key benefits
  • Keeping equipment in top condition
  • Extending service life and saving money
  • Ensuring your fleet is operating within manufacturer specs and remaining compliant with FCC regulations
  • Reducing uncertainty and removing the guesswork
Let’s look at these benefits in a bit more detail. Keeping equipment in top condition We think your radio network is only as strong as its weakest link, so our preventive maintenance plans are designed to keep your equipment running like it did when it came out of the box. Under our preventive maintenance plans, we either visit your site or you deliver the equipment to us. You can do it once or twice a year, depending on how hard you use your radios and how operations-critical your network is. Here’s what we do:
  • Physically inspect the equipment
  • Remove dust and/or foreign substances inside and out
  • Measure, record, test, tune, align and restore to factory specifications and within FCC regulations
  • Ensure correct receiving and transmitting frequencies
  • Measure receiving sensitivity and equipment deviation
  • Test transmitting power
  • Evaluate the battery's condition and service life
  • Check reflected power in the antenna lines of mobile radios and repeaters
  • Ensure functionality in all audio output levels
  • Recalibrate equipment to original parameters based on your programming
  • Upgrade to the most current firmware
If we find a repair is necessary, we’ll prepare an estimate of the cost, but we won’t start any work until you approve it. (One way to ease your repair-cost anxieties is to invest in one of our extended warranties.) Extending service life and saving money Just having somebody clean all the crud and gunk your radios acquire in the field can go a long way toward extending their service life — and putting off the day when you have to buy new ones. If your radios get heavy use in tough environments like construction sites or offshore oil rigs, they’re facing daily assaults from dust, water and whatever your work crews can throw at them. The more attention you pay to this wear and tear, the more you control your potential repair costs. It’s far more economical to pay a small price to prevent a breakdown than it is to pay a technician to repair it once it has broken. Ensuring your fleet is operating within manufacturer specs and remaining compliant with FCC regulations If your equipment’s operating outside the manufacturer’s specifications, you run the risk of voiding your warranty. And, of course, you increase the risk of it breaking down, because it was built to operate within those specs, not outside them. Also, keeping your two-way radio gear within the bounds of FCC regulations reduces the likelihood that you’ll be blocking other people’s transmissions and triggering complaints that could get your license revoked. Reducing uncertainty and removing guesswork Nobody builds perfect equipment that never fails, and nobody uses equipment exactly as advised in the owner’s manual. Mother Nature and quirks of fate can undo the best of plans. But we can reduce the likelihood of things going wrong. If your radios, repeaters and transmitters have been regularly cleaned, inspected and restored to their optimum operating conditions, you’re improving your odds of keeping them working the way you want them to work. With a preventive maintenance plan, you always know the last time an expert looked over your gear. And you make sure you invest a small amount up front to avoid much larger expense down the road. BearCom owns a rental fleet of more than 20,000 radios. Our preventive maintenance plans are built on everything we learned protecting our investment all that equipment and minimizing repair costs. Our preventive maintenance plans represent a low-cost way for you to benefit from all of our experience. To learn more about preventive maintenance, consider reading this story from Today's Wireless World: How a Preventive Maintenance Plan Keeps Radio Fleets at Work