NEWS Simmonds announces sale of Midland distribution businesses 1st July 1996 Concurrent with the May 21 announcement of its 1995 financial results, Simmonds Capital Limited, Willowdale, Ontario, Canada, announced that the company
NEWS Domestic violence alarm links to police cars in Sangamon County, IL 1st July 1996 Victims of domestic violence in Sangamon County, IL, now have access to “domestic alarms” that are linked to computer terminals in the county’s police
System integration of the Flex paging protocol Part 2–System design recommendations. 1st July 1996 Flex, a Motorola trademark, is short for flexible, wide-area, synchronous paging protocol.Integration of the Flex paging protocol onto existing paging
Editorial Technical report to help system designers and frequency coordinators 1st July 1996 Have you heard that there are two new technologies moving into the 800MHz public safety radio frequency bands? One is frequency-division multiple access
I can’t hear you! Sometimes a reception problem cannot be traced to RF, electronic or mechanical causes. What’s left? ‘Know your customer’ is good advice. Also, tips for making VSWR measurements with a wattmeter faster and more accurate. 1st July 1996 The first of the month always comes with a groan, followed by a sigh of relief. The groan, I think, is because of our “billing party.” The shop staff
Radio communications improve services on forest lands Communications system designers with radio frequency and funding limitations find ways to deliver the best possible coverage. Often, interagency communications requirements lead to using VHF highband c 1st July 1996 Workers in the nation’s forests carry out duties as commonplace as insect control, as dangerous as fighting fires and as vital as saving lives. Without
Regulating Technology A closet full of memories 1st July 1996 The other day one of my associates was rooting through a closet in our offices looking for some obscure supplies. This particular closet is darkly tucked
Yesterday’s networks may provide tomorrow’s profits For a network upgrade, choose a protocol that increases existing speed by several factors, that has subscriber units with quality equal to or better than existing protocol units and with sufficient avail 1st July 1996 How well your one-way system is optimized is a subjective matter, even though the problems involved with optimizing are well-known. If your batching algorithms
PEOPLE 1st July 1996 Bruce Bishop, vice president of communications systems for Tecom Industries, Chatsworth, CA, advances to vice president of engineering.Changes at Cellcom,
RF isolation, cheap and easy Isolation may be best for eliminating AM broadcast signals and induced electrical hum in some communications base station and microwave facilities and where various users of communications equipment share tower space. 1st July 1996 There are times when the signal from the local broadcast station gets into your station equipment. You don’t want it for reasons other than not liking
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 1 22nd April 2024
Is LMR the best solution for first responders? Should 4.9 GHz license go to the FirstNet Authority? 2 24th March 2024