Land Mobile Radio

Extinction event?

A groundswell has emerged in support of the notion that provisioning mission-critical voice to first responders over broadband networks is a fait accompli — and that the eventual end of land-mobile radio is a certainty.

Chirhart discusses multiband radio pilot at New Orleans Jazz Fest

Thomas Chirhart, program manager of the DHS S&T Multiband Radio Program, discusses the pilot to test the latest multiband radio technology, including its future and lessons learned thus far.

News

FCC proposes to extend outage reporting to broadband

FCC commissioners approved a notice of proposed rulemaking that calls for voice-over-IP (VoIP) providers to report outages of at least 30 minutes in an effort to make the nation’s 911 emergency-calling system more reliable.

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Carlson Wireless software-defined radio leverages TV white spaces to deliver rural broadband

Carlson Wireless has developed RuralConnect IP, a software-defined radio that uses TV white spaces to deliver wireless broadband service to homes, businesses and municipal entities in rural and underserved areas.

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Vertex Standard announces DMR portfolio

The Vertex Standard DMR portable is ruggedized, can operate on more than 500 channels, has a full display and keypad, and supports analog voice, digital voice and radio-to-radio text messaging.

Winning the battle

Last month, we began to explore radio-frequency interference, every technician’s bane. Now we look at additional causes of RFI and — more importantly — what can be done about them.

News

NPSTC seeks LMR exception to revised intrinsically safe standard

NPSTC asked that the revised FM standard not be implemented until 2017 or that LMR radios be held to a separate intrinsically safe standard than other devices.

The bane of your existence

Radio-frequency interference is something that every radio-system engineer will encounter, sooner or later. In this installment, we begin to explain how it occurs and what to do about it.

Commentary

Protect yourself

Are we seeing the beginning of the end regarding single-municipality public-safety radio systems? There are some indications that point to a significant migration from such systems to wide-area, single-licensee systems.

News

Software-defined radio moves toward milestone

First commercial devices for the white-space market are expected by the end of next month.

Extinction event?

Chirhart discusses multiband radio pilot at New Orleans Jazz Fest

News

FCC proposes to extend outage reporting to broadband

News

Carlson Wireless software-defined radio leverages TV white spaces to deliver rural broadband

News

Vertex Standard announces DMR portfolio

Winning the battle

News

NPSTC seeks LMR exception to revised intrinsically safe standard

The bane of your existence

Commentary

Protect yourself

News

Software-defined radio moves toward milestone

Commentary

LTE and liability: Why the fire service must move forward with digital incident command

Partnership and collaboration must be the foundation for emergency communications

FirstNet success means no hypothetical ‘shots’ need to be fired, Swenson says

Events

UC Ezines

IWCE 2019 Wrap Up

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