Now you hear it, now you don’t! Bad weather sometimes brings out the worst in a radio communications system–or maybe it only seems that way. Keeping up-to-date records of equipment modifications and repairs help to troubleshoot rainy-day problems. 1st May 1996
Directive antennas offer improvements for cell sites In the beginning, service providers placed their cell sites as high as they could, and added high-gain, omnidirectional antennas and blasted out as much power as they could to reach as far and as wide a 1st May 1996
Report light outages with tower site monitor A dial-up monitor fulfills FCC requirements for monitoring proper tower light operation and reporting outages, along with providing some additional monitoring and remote control functions. 1st May 1996
News Radio communications, paging system operators organize Small Business in Telecommunications Meeting in St. Louis March 1-2, owners of radio communications and paging systems launched a non-profit trade association to represent those telecommunication 1st April 1996
News Motorola’s new service strategy includes sale of repair centers, construction of central repair/exchange facility 1st April 1996
Exploit the power of VSWR measurements VSWR measurement, one of the most basic measures of RF system performance, lets system operators stay on top of base station antenna performance without leaving the office and can predict impending failures. 1st April 1996
Tower down conductors offer little lightning protection Lightning-simulator test results indicate that a down conductor connected to a towertop lightning rod adds no significant improvement to the protection offered by a lightning rod bonded to the tower 1st April 1996
Installation tips for heavy equipment Building your own mounting plate, placing the radio near the operator, using a power buss and taking care in antenna mounting will ensure a successful installation in a road grader and other types of construction vehi 1st April 1996
Paging technology: Flex, ERMES paging codes Part 3–ERMES takes Europe, and Motorola’s Flex (in one form or another) takes the rest of the world in the contest to roll out a faster paging protocol. Data rates as high as 6,400bps are achieved on a paging c 1st April 1996
Is LMR the best solution for first responders? Should 4.9 GHz license go to the FirstNet Authority? 2 24th March 2024
FirstNet Authority reauthorization needed as public-safety-driven network evolution proceeds 16th March 2024