Commentary Pole-climbing robot has potential for disaster-response communications 26th November 2013 Recently, I chatted with Carol Perry, the director of youth activities for the Radio Club of America, about Devlin Murray and Chris Blackwood, two New Jersey high school students who were invited to make a presentation at the RCA’s technical symposium held last weekend in Orlando. Perry had discovered the duo through a friend who had mentored the youngsters and told me that they were going to “blow me away.”
Video P25 migration best practices 23rd September 2013 Dean Hane, radio communications manager for the Multi Agency Communications Center (MACC) in Grant County, Wash., talks about things to avoid, and strategies to embrace, when executing a migration to Project 25.
Article Migrating to a Project 25 trunked system (Part 2) 23rd September 2013 The Multi Agency Communications Center (MACC), which is a consolidated public-safety answering point (PSAP) that serves Grant County, Wash., had to consider several factors before finding the right migration technology to supplant its legacy analog network.
Commentary It’s been a tough year for tower safety 19th September 2013 The wireless industry is on pace to have more tower-climbing deaths in 2013 than almost any recent year, something than an official with the National Association of Tower Erectors (NATE) hopes is an aberration.
Article Hytera-Cobb TETRA collaboration might be the start of something big 23rd July 2013 Cobb EMC—an electrical cooperative that serves metropolitan Atlanta and southeast Georgia—recently announced what is believed to be the first TETRA deployment in the United States. The four-site system will be installed by Radio One and will leverage infrastructure and subscriber gear manufactured by Hytera.
Article Antenna misalignment is becoming a bigger problem 18th July 2013 Solution from Sunsight can help alleviate antenna-alignment issues that are expensive for LTE network operators to correct.
Commentary FCC clarifies rules for TETRA use 8th July 2013 Recent FCC order clarifies that TETRA and other technologies can be used on non-NPSPAC frequencies in the 800 MHz band.
Commentary Text to 911: We can’t afford to wait 17th June 2013 With the hard-of-hearing community turning to texting as a primary means of communication, text-to-911 services need to be developed and deployed as quickly as possible.
Article Why hosted solutions make sense for public safety 3rd June 2013 Most PSAP systems today are housed on site, but the future may feature powerful applications that are hosted in the cloud.
Article How to bridge the gap between LMR and wireless broadband 19th March 2013 LMR may be the communications technology for today, but a private wireless broadband network could be in your organization’s future. With proper planning, you can save resources — and money — while supporting both platforms.
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 22nd April 2024
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