Mar 1, 2002 12:00 PM

1983

• Premiere issue: January/February. Phil Cook (Phil is now sales manager for our sister publication RF Design) is our first publisher at Weisner Publishing.
• In one of several changes for E.F. Johnson over the next 15 years, it merges with Western Union.
• Kenwood announces that it is entering the land mobile market.
• Mass marketing of fully programmable, off-the-shelf mobile radio is forecast, based on the new E²PROM technology.
• Novatel comes into existence through a joint venture by Nova of Calgary, and Alberta Government Telephone, of Edmonton. James L. Green is appointed as the first president.
• Shirley Bonifasi is elected president of NMRA.
• The Radio Club of America celebrates its 75th birthday.
• Jack Daniel heads the newly created Decibel western regional office.
• Hertz is the first rental car company to install cellphones in rental cars.
• Motorola supplies two-way communications equipment for the 1984 Olympic winter games in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
• Mal Gurian is named president of OKI Advanced Communications.
• A report drafted by former NTIA administrator Dale Hatfield states, “no new spectrum would be needed for land mobile licensees between now and the end of the century.”
• Celwave Technologies Inc., a newly formed company, has acquired the telephone, cable, antenna and broadcast products business of Phelps Dodge Industries Inc.

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