Saturday, July 19, 2008
Amateur Power
By Grady E. McCright
Until digital communications systems are fully implemented, look to an already-available back-up system: ham radios....
800Mhz Changes to Start June 27
Call-Center Conflict
By Michael A. LaPean
For many departments, the use of a civilian dispatch center has become a lightning rod of controversy. Many people in and around the fire service are...
IAFC Interoperability Handbook
Pat West & Glenn Bischoff
The International Association of Fire Chiefs responded to criticism of its recently released handbook that describes use of Nextel Communications' push-to-talk...
Radio Silence
By William L. Pessemier
Despite the fact that communication is a key element of effective and safe emergency response operations, the fire service has experienced the effects...
HERO Act to Free Spectrum
With support from major public safety organizations, Reps. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) and Jane Harman (D-Calif.) reintroduced the Homeland Emergency Response...
Nextel Assent Begins 800MHz Rebanding
On Feb. 7, Nextel Communications formally accepted the Federal Communications Commission's order to pay for retuning radio spectrum to eliminate 800MHz...
911 Emergency: Will You Please Hold?
By Douglas Page
The nation's venerable emergency 911 system is about to be rescued itself, courtesy of a next-generation 911 program. The project, launched by the National...
FCC Launches 800MHz Rebanding Site
The Federal Communications Commission has launched a Web site at www.800mhzrebanding.com to update users on the status of the rebanding effort. In November,...
800MHz Re-tuning Soon
The Federal Communications Commission's order calling for Nextel to end interference in 800MHz public safety communications and to put up $4.8 billion...
From Your Lips
By Keith LeBlanc
Technological advances are changing the way fire and emergency-service organizations communicate. The influx of headset systems, used in conjunction with...
FCC Consensus Plan Obstacles Fall
Public safety groups reacted happily to two announcements in early November that greatly increased the likelihood that the Federal Communication Commission's...
Command on the Run
As one of the early proponents of mobile command vehicles for military, police and fire, Larry LaGuardia has seen many changes in the rigs, including...
FCC OKs Public-Safety Request for 4.9 GHz Mask
Public Safety Praises Nextel, Verizon Truce
Donny Jackson, Mobile Radio Technology
Panel: Interoperability About People More Than Technology
By Doug Mohney, Mobile Radio Technology
Technology is the least of the challenges for achieving interoperable communications between public safety groups, according to a panel of experts that recently met in Washington, D.C. ...
IP on the Rise
BY MERRILL DOUGLAS
In an increasingly digital world, the distinction between voice and data has grown thin. On networks using Internet-style technology, the pipeline simply...
4.9GHz Emissions Mask Under Fire
BY DONNY JACKSON
Public-safety and vendor officials have continued their debate concerning the appropriate emissions mask for equipment operating in the newly allocated...
Chief to Building: You Talkin' to Me?
Ronny J. Coleman
How can anyone forget Robert DeNiro's famous line from the movie Taxi Driver? His expression of hostility toward someone who was presumptuous enough to...
Add Life to Your Existing Radios
BY BILL PESSEMIER, IAFC
Improvements in communications technology have the potential to greatly enhance operational capability and to reduce the long-term cost of communications...
FCC Reaches Bandwidth Consensus
After two years of heated public debate and painstaking deliberation, the Federal Communications Commission on July 8 approved the major components of...
Roosevelt Hotshots to Test Radios
Mobile Radio Technology
Feds Need to Get Priorities Straight on Wireless E-911
By Glenn Bischoff, Mobile Radio Technology
Family Talk Plan
By Pat West
Are you familiar with the SAFECOM Program, the principal federal initiative founded in 2002 to help public safety organizations achieve interoperable...
Money Talks: How to Play the Consensus Plan Game
Glenn Bischoff, Mobile Radio Technology magazine
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