Operations

World Trade Center response reveals multiple FDNY problems

A soon-to-be-released consultant report peels the scab from the Fire Department of New York’s wounds to reveal its problems with radio communications,

ARES teams on alert as West Coast wildfires threaten

West Coast Amateur Radio Emergency Service teams were on alert at week’s end to provide emergency communication as the Florence and Sour Biscuit wildfires

Relm Wireless taps $1 million in government orders

Relm Wireless, West Melbourne, Fla., expects to ship $1 million worth of product by the end of September to fill orders from the National Interagency

Emergency agencies going digital

Wed, Jul 31, 2002 Thursday will be a very quiet day for people who like to follow local police action by tuning into personal radio scanners. That is,

Communication breakdown

June 29, 2002 Essex County’s emergency radio system needs replacing, officials say Essex County (N.Y.) has an antiquated emergency communications system

Interoperability makes strange bedfellows

A pilot program for mobile communications interoperability at the Denver Police Department includes 600 Nextel phones. Why strange bedfellows? Denver’s

Taming Hayman

Residents of communities just a few minutes’ drive from Denver could see the fire’s glow. The flames, which flourished under low humidity and drought

Faster than a speeding bullet

The prospect of affordable high-speed Internet and virtual private network access that extends wired desktop computer capability to laptop computers in

Fight the NOISE

At the Baton Rouge Fire Department, voice communication by radio begins at the microphone and ends at the speaker or earphone same as anywhere else. That

Turn it off

When Johnson County, Ind.’s new 800-MHz digital trunked radio system failed to reach the city of Greenwood’s police officers at critical times such as

World Trade Center response reveals multiple FDNY problems

ARES teams on alert as West Coast wildfires threaten

Relm Wireless taps $1 million in government orders

Emergency agencies going digital

Communication breakdown

Interoperability makes strange bedfellows

Taming Hayman

Faster than a speeding bullet

Fight the NOISE

Turn it off

Commentary

Proposed three-digit suicide-prevention ‘Lifeline’ would benefit public-safety communications

The importance of commercial broadcast radio to public safety

FirstNet Authority standards director recaps June 3GPP Plenary Meetings in Newport Beach, Calif.

Events

UC Ezines

IWCE 2019 Wrap Up

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