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Governing your interoperable network

By: By Spencer Stern

During visits with vendors and wireless users, a frequent complaint I hear when discussing interoperability concerns people problems. Checking egos at...

Let public safety drive rebanding effort

By: By Wanda McCarley

Although the public-safety communications community continues to deal with a series of issues, one of our highest priorities is 800 MHz rebanding. Much...

Hot spots must find a way to co-exist

By: By Alan Tilles

In October 2003, I gave a presentation at a Wireless Airport Association meeting in which I stated that airports' shared wireless systems were a wonderful...

A tribute to Gregg Miller

By: By Alan Tilles

This past month, Gregg Miller, president of Racom in Marshalltown, Iowa and an important figure in the land mobile industry passed away. You may not know...

Rushing in where others fear to tread

By: By Glenn Bischoff

I long have harbored a deep respect for first responders. In fact, if I had not become a journalist, I am certain I would have tried to become a member of the Chicago Fire Department...

Achieving interoperability requires teamwork--from everyone

By: By Alan Tilles

Interoperability means different things to different people. To some, it's everybody on the same radio system. To others, it's everybody on different radios systems, but using the same technology...

A night to remember

By: By Glenn Bischoff

For the past two decades or so, I have lived next door to an amateur radio enthusiast...

What on earth is taking so long?

By: By James Careless

That's the question Congress wants answered as Project 25 slogs forward...

I am a baseball fan. This isn't much of a revelation. In fact, it should come as no surprise to any of you who have visited this space in the past, as I have liberally sprinkled references to our national pastime in previous columns in order to make a point...