Education, training and skills

Field communications training

Exercise for TMR2 users: Exercise Handshake

Details on Exercise Handshake, a monthly exercise for TMR2 users to use their radios in a non-emergency environment.

Move radios between stations: TMR system

Volunteer agencies need to inform government when they are permanently moving trunked mobile radios (TMRs) or bases from 1 location or station to another.

Moving radios between vehicles or apparatus: TMR system

Volunteer agencies need to inform government when they’re moving trunked mobile radios (TMRs) from 1 vehicle or apparatus to another.

Talkgroups: volunteer fire department (VFD)

Detailed explanation for each VFD talkgroup.

TMR (base station) quick reference card: municipal emergency management office (EMO)

How to use your trunked mobile radio (TMR) base station, including zones and talkgroups, for municipal EMO staff.

TMR (district 1.5 portable) quick reference card: Department of Lands and Forestry

How to use your trunked portable radio, including zones and talkgroups, for Department of Lands and Forestry staff.

TMR (district 2.5 portable) quick reference card: Department of Lands and Forestry

How to use your trunked portable radio, including zones and talk groups, for Department of Lands and Forestry staff.

TMR (district base) quick reference card: Department of Lands and Forestry

How to use your trunked mobile radio (TMR) base station, including zones and talkgroups, for Department of Lands and Forestry district staff.

TMR (marine 2.5 portable) quick reference card: Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal

How to use your trunked portable radio, including zones and talkgroups, for Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal marine staff.

TMR (marine base) quick reference card: Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal

How to use your trunked mobile radio (TMR) base station, including zones and talkgroups, for Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal marine staff.

TMR (marine mobile) quick reference card: Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal

How to use your trunked mobile radio (TMR), including zones and talkgroups, for Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal marine staff.

TMR (mobile) quick reference card: Department of Community Services and Red Cross

How to use your trunked mobile radio (TMR), including zones and talkgroups, for Department of Community Services and Red Cross disaster staff.

TMR (ops 1.5 portable) quick reference card: Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal

How to use your trunked portable radio, including zones and talkgroups, for Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal operations staff.

TMR (ops 2.5 portable) quick reference card: Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal

How to use your trunked portable radio, including zones and talkgroups, for Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal operations staff.

TMR (ops base) quick reference card: Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal

How to use your trunked mobile radio (TMR) base station, including zones and talkgroups, for Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal operations staff.

TMR (ops mobile) quick reference card: Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal

How to use your trunked mobile radio (TMR), including zones and talkgroups, for Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal operations staff.

TMR (parks base) quick reference card: Department of Lands and Forestry

How to use your trunked mobile radio (TMR) base station, including zones and talkgroups, for Department of Lands and Forestry parks staff.

TMR (portable) quick reference card: Department of Community Services and Red Cross

How to use your trunked portable radio, including zones and talkgroups, for Department of Community Services and Red Cross disaster staff.

TMR (portable) quick reference card: ground search and rescue (GSAR)

Quick reference card for GSAR personnel on how to use your trunked portable radio.

TMR (portable) quick reference card: municipal emergency management office (EMO)

How to use your trunked portable radio, including zones and talkgroups, for municipal EMO staff.

TMR marine user training guide: Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal

How to use your trunked mobile system. Covers features like button configurations, zones, talkgroups, sites of the TMR radio, agency fleet maps and voice quality.

TMR quick reference card: Department of Lands and Forestry

How to use your trunked mobile radio (TMR), including zones and talkgroups, for Department of Lands and Forestry staff.

TMR quick reference card: ground search and rescue (GSAR)

Quick reference card for GSAR personnel on how to use your trunked mobile radio (TMR).

TMR quick reference card: municipal emergency management office (EMO)

How to use your trunked mobile radio (TMR), including zones and talk groups, for municipal EMO staff.

TMR quick reference card: volunteer fire department (VFD)

How to use your trunked mobile radio (TMR), including dispatch centres and talkgroups for each region.

TMR user training guide: Department of Community Services and Red Cross

How to use your trunked mobile system. Covers features like button configurations, zones, talkgroups, sites of the TMR radio, agency fleet maps and voice quality.

TMR user training guide: Department of Lands and Forestry

How to use your trunked mobile system. Covers features like button configurations, zones, talkgroups, sites of the TMR radio, agency fleet maps and voice quality.

TMR user training guide: Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal

How to use your trunked mobile system. Covers features like button configurations, zones, talkgroups, sites of the TMR radio, agency fleet maps and voice quality.

TMR user training guide: ground search and rescue (GSAR)

How to use your trunked mobile system. Covers features like button configurations, zones, talkgroups, sites of the TMR radio, agency fleet maps and voice quality.

TMR user training guide: municipal emergency management office (EMO)

How to use your trunked mobile system. Covers features like button configurations, zones, talkgroups, sites of the TMR radio, agency fleet maps and voice quality.

TMR user training guide: volunteer fire department (VFD)

How to use your trunked mobile system. Covers features like button configurations, zones, talkgroups, sites of the TMR radio, agency fleet maps and voice quality.

TMR2 mobile installation guide

How to install the trunked mobile radio (TMR2) system. Read with the Motorola Installation Guide, which is included with each mobile radio.

TMR2 user guide

Specifics on how to operate the trunked mobile radio (TMR2) system, lists of agencies sharing the system, radio tones and alerts, best practices and potential issues.

Traffic control Simplex radios quick reference card: Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal

How to use your trunked portable radio, including channel numbers and channel names, for Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal operations staff.

Trunked mobile radio (TMR): communications equipment training materials

Training materials for public safety agencies that use the trunked mobile radio (TMR) system.

Financial assistance

Apply to receive financial assistance to help cover expenses during apprenticeship technical training

You can apply to receive financial assistance to help cover expenses during apprenticeship technical training.

Training

Learning and development calendar: Government of Nova Scotia employees

Listing of courses and certificates available to Government of Nova Scotia employees through the Learning Management System.

Sign in to the Learning Management System to register for courses and certificates

Government of Nova Scotia employees need to sign in to the Learning Management System to register for courses and certificates.

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