Rebanding of the 800 MHz band is not proceeding as quickly as scheduled, and areas hit by Hurricane Katrina were moved to Wave 3, the Transition Administrator...
The Transition Administrator (TA) yesterday announced the release of four documents designed to provide guidance to 800 MHz licensees that want to submit a...
Folks, Can anyone refer me to an operational OpenSky system, aside from Pennsylvania. I am most interested in public safety systems but would like to hear ...
Here's the link: http://www.pennlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news/11330868657280 0.xml&coll=1 Cumberland County emergency radio hits airwaves Dec. 6 ...
Most of the Police Departments on the East end of Cumberland County are using the new radios. Radio Maintenance has been quite busy on the air getting the...
under water sound is the effect of the vocoder.. in high bit error conditions.. where analog radios would have static... digital radio has garbled"swirl" type...
Ah yes. I distinctly remember the first person to call me at the office from his call to brag about his Fleet Call (now Nextel) telephone. You describe it...
Howdy Glen... Well...the agency I work for (Milwaukee, WI Police) are going to swich to OpenSky sometime in the next year. So far..our data system is up and...
A request from tow provider Bill Holmes for the Morgan County Communications Center Board to purchase an 800 MHz radio for him so he could listen to the ...
Alcatel today announced it has signed a subcontract with M/A-COM, Inc., a leader in critical communications technologies, to equip the State of New York with...
A dispatcher saw Voiers taking the statue and put out a call to officers. Carriage driver Thomas Tharp heard the broadcast on his police scanner and cantered...
So Pennsylvania was supposed to wait until THIS YEAR to even BID the project? P25 trunking "interoperability" is seriously over-rated. For the radio to even...
Police departments in Cumberland County are now using the OpenSky system. The announcement was made at 10:00 this morning that all transmissions were now to...
In a message dated 12/5/2005 12:56:56 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, walter.howard@... writes: Some system operators are charging turn on AND monthly fees...
The Federal Communications Commission has directed manufacturers to stop supporting analog equipment by 2008 and requires all public safety agencies to use...
A total misquote. The writer is talking (but improperly quoting) about wideband equipment in the 150 and 450 MHz band. The 2013 date is the deadline by which...
There IS a price, one which society makes every day. On the telecommunications side, that price determines how many sites are actually used, how robust the...
Usually these fees are nominal, based upon what it costs to maintain the IDs in the system. Outrageous fees can usually be negotiated to a win-win for all...
I don't know what systems you deal with, but we're being told of buy-ins in the multiple thousands of $ and monthly charges of $40-50 per id. So we didn't play...
The days of sitting by the reliable scanner to keep tabs on the neighborhood dispute are coming to an end. The county’s switch to a new 800 MHz system...
Officials are not ready to pursue a costly full conversion to the 800 MHz system, which would cost between $12 million and $50 million in grant money to ...
The following is a follow up to the newspaper article about Cumberland County's new Ma/Com system. http://cumberlink.com/articles/2005/12/07/news/news02.txt ...
I would have to see that in writing from the agency to believe it. I have NEVER seen those kinds of rates per month. Especially for only Mutual Aid only use. ...
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