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• What'll They Think Of Next?
  • Milestone for Wi-Fi with 'T-rays'
    Tremendous Wi-Fi speed increases will be possible in the future with this new technology from Japan
  • FlexRadio Systems is changing the face of Ham Radio
• Video: The wireless Bellboy Pager, was introduced commercially in 1962
• Daniels Electronics announced it has been awarded a five year contract with the US Department of Homeland Security
• Introducing The FLEX-6000™ Signature Series
• Milestone for Wi-Fi with 'T-rays'
• Dayton Hamvention hi-def video
• Paul Cassel VE3SY SK
  • (SK) Silent Key refers to an amateur radio operator who has deceased. The term is frequently abbreviated
• BloostonLaw Telecom Update (selected portions)
• BloostonLaw Private Users Update (selected portions)
• Not quite “Indiana Jones” but this is “Illinois Brad” circa 1971
• THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
• Quotation on Technology

• Brad On The Soapbox Again
• CMA: The Critical Messaging Summit, September 11-13, 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden
• Emergency Managers Hope Few Opt Out of New Wireless Alerts
• RIM Empire Didn't Strike Back At BlackBerry World
• York County to spend $8,100 on 911 paging system
• CTIA 2012: a look back at our favorite devices
• FCC: THE WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS BUREAU PROVIDES GUIDANCE ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL NOTIFICATION PROCESS FOR THE REGISTRATION OF ANTENNA STRUCTURES
• Dirk Stemerman: Email privacy in workplace
• BloostonLaw Telecom Update (selected portions)
• You have heard of “Jungle Jim” and “Tarzan” — check out “Jungle Brad”
• THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
  • Quotation on Hypocrisy

• Wireless Messaging News now independent
• My early fascination with Radio
• Some hard-to-understand radio theory (for me at least)
  • Which way does electricity go?
  • AM and FM
• Congratulations to Ivy Corp. CEO Mary Jesse on the deal with American Messaging Services
• CMA Section:
  • The Critical Messaging Summit, September 11-13, 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden
  • Request for Assistance from a CMA member
• Ivy raises cash, inks deal with paging giant American Messaging
  • What if Bob used Ivytalk?
• FCC Waives T-Band Narrowbanding, Freezes Band (4/27/12)
• Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Wants Social Media to Save Lives
  • Sharing Life
  • Inspired By Steve Jobs
• USA Mobility Reports First Quarter Operating Results
  • Board Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend
  • Wireless Subscriber and Revenue Trends Continue to Improve
  • Software Solutions Launched
  • Application Development Advances
  • Operating Expenses Reduced
  • Outstanding Debt Repaid
  • Amcom Acquires Critical Test Results Management Solution from IMCO Technologies
• Chatty Smartphones stressing networks
• CHARGE Anywhere releases NFC mPOS solution for BlackBerry
• BloostonLaw Telecom Update (selected portions)
• TECH TIPS
  • Radio Electronics: Frequency Modulation, Basic Principles Parts 1-2 1964 US Army Training Film
• LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
  • Art Gill, Anser-Quik, Morehead City, NC
  • The National VOA Museum of Broadcasting will be open for tours
• A couple of readers said I look like Charles Manson in this DIY photo. What do you think?
• THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
  • Quotations in the opening of the new book, Manhunt: the ten-year search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad by Peter L. Bergen
    • —Winston Churchill
    • —Theodore Roosevelt

• My Hometown In The News: “Fracking in Fairfield”
• Today is the 221st birthday of Samuel Morse
• CMA Section: Critical Messaging Association Appoints New Officers, Makes Awards and Sets the Stage for International Partnership at Annual Convention
• LightSquared triples lobbying bill to $1 million in Q1
• LightSquared Deadline Ahead as Potential Bankruptcy Looms
• LightSquared Pays Inmarsat Bill, Suspends Spectrum Deal
• Mobile phones : “Still no evidence of harm to health”
• Text message prompts “improve medicines adherence”
• Citizens To Receive Automatic Emergency Cell Phone Messages
• Retracing where it all went wrong for Research in Motion
• Apple blowing Android away in enterprise adoption
• PageOne to give sneak preview into new paging developments at British APCO 2012
• BloostonLaw Private User Update (selected portions)
• BloostonLaw Telecom Update (selected portions)
• This Month— 55 Years in Radio Communications
  • Brad Dye, KN9IQY Novice Station, 1957
  • Reference Report: CONELRAD ( Control of Electromagnetic Radiation)
• LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
  • Ron Mercer receives several inquires about his new invention
• THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
  • Take A Risk?
  • Quotation from a French movie— Joueuse.

• Phil Leavitt of Leavitt Communications has reduced the price of up to 1,250 new Bravo 501 900 MHz FLEX numeric display pagers to $8.00 each.
• CMA Section: Critical Messaging Association Appoints New Officers, Makes Awards and Sets the Stage for International Partnership at Annual Convention
• Ron Mercer is offering a partnership opportunity with his Call2Park invention
• e*Message rolls out a new alarm and information system to improve security for the state schools in Germany
• CTIA-The Wireless Association® Semi-Annual Survey Shows Significant Demand by Americans for Wireless Broadband
• How Nokia can beat the iPhone
• FCC Will Allow Text-to-Speech Emergency Alerts
• IBM speeds push for 500-mile EV battery
• Could Apple finally make full use of Liquidmetal in the construction of its next iPhone?
• Future Cellphones Could Pack Tech to See Through Walls
• BloostonLaw Telecom Update (selected portions)
• Radio Ham established Broadcasting
• LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
  • Stuart Cox—Tomato garden
• THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
  • Life is too short

• Editorial Section
  • My annual tomato garden project
  • Will Rogers quotation
  • A REALLY GREAT VIDEO (if you missed it last week)
    • Why Nothing Beats Paging For Critical Messaging
  • Free e-book from MissionCritical Communications about narrowbanding
  • Authorities will turn to Twitter if Stanley Cup trouble breaks out [in Vancouver]
• CMA Section: Thanks to our speakers, sponsors, and participants at the Critical Messaging Convention for making the event an enormous success.
  • With Photos
  • CMA conference presentations that were received are available on the members-only page.
• Nearly 50% of U.S. subscribers use mobile downloads and browsers
• FCC: Robocalls
  • The Telephone Consumer Protection Act places limits on unsolicited prerecorded telemarketing calls to landline home telephones, and all autodialed or prerecorded calls to wireless numbers, emergency numbers, and patient rooms at health care facilities.
  • FCC Video
• Sony starts selling its SmartWatch in the U.S, but there are some problems
• National mobile alert system goes live; now phones have to catch up
• Multitone to showcase emergency services communications products at British APCO 2012
• Why Your Company Won't Let You Use Your iPad At Work
• PageOne to give sneak preview into new paging developments at British APCO 2012
• BloostonLaw Telecom Update (selected portions)
• Titanic - In Her Own Words
  • To mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, the BBC's Sean Coughlan narrates one of the most authentic versions of events in existence.
• LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
  • Jerry Vargas
• THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
  • Soren Kierkegaard

• Editorial Section
  • CRITICAL MESSAGING CONVENTION
  • GREAT CONTENT
  • PREFERRED WIRELESS
  • CRITICISMS
  • GRIPES
  • IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT—DON'T READ IT!
  • A GOOD REASON TO ADVERTISE HERE
  • NEWS
  • A REALLY GREAT VIDEO
  • PAGING TECHNICAL COMMITTEE MEETING
    • Photos
• CMA: Thanks to our speakers, sponsors, and participants at the Critical Messaging Convention for making the event an enormous success.
  • Photos
• “The King is Gone”
  • R.I.P. Motorola, it was a great run
• West Virginia Dealer Embraces Change
  • Lauttamus Communications
• Vic Jensen Received CMA Award at Austin Critical Messaging Convention
  • Photo
• Why Nothing Beats Paging For Critical Messaging (video)
• Individuals Introducing Themselves At The Critical Messaging Conference
  • 45 Photos
• CRS Introduces ResponseView™
  • Live Incident Response Monitor System
• New Alerting System to be Launched on Saturday
  • With Related Video
• BloostonLaw Telecom Update (selected portions)
• BloostonLaw Private Users Update (selected portions)
• TECH TIPS
  • Some POCSAG Coding Tips and Secrets
• LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
  • Jerry Griffith
    • To Paging Old-timers
  • Carlos Roberto Giancristóforo
    • Questions about Paging Systems from Brazil
• THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
  • Happy Easter

• Why Am I Going To Austin?
• Convention Sponsors
• RIM pushes HTML5 apps amid Canada user exodus
• Myths about CMAS Dispelled
• Andrew Affrunti, 1916-2012
  • Joined Motorola as a teen; stayed for 52 years
• LTE option poses data dilemma for iPad, smartphone users
• T-Mobile Closing 2 Texas Call Centers
• Report: Mobile Websites Need to Prepare for Outages
• Virgin Mobile customers experiencing nationwide data and texting outage
• BloostonLaw Telecom Update
  • FCC Sets May 15 as CMAS Opt Out Customer Notice Deadline
  • Congressman Asks FCC To Allow LightSquared To Proceed With Its Network
• TAPR Opens "Interest List" for Hermes SDR
• LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
• Mike Lyons
  • PTC Meeting agenda
• Kevin Faris
  • CMAS questions
• THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
  • Where Is The Love?

Thanks to our sponsors and vendors of the Critical Messaging Convention!

March 27-29, 2012

Austin, Texas

Hyatt Regency Austin

It’s not too late to register:
www.criticalmessagingassociation.com

This Week's Headlines:

• iPads made hospital residents more efficient, they say
• Convention Sponsors
• Daniels Electronics Successfully Completes Large Contract
• Canada Moves to Open Wireless Market to New Entrants
• China to pass U.S. in smartphone shipments in 2012
• Franklin County Firefighters Want Pager System Back
• Sprint ends deal with LightSquared, returns $65 million
• Apple fans buy iPad on 1st day, some wait hours
• PageOne Communications CEO Chris Jones shortlisted for CMA ‘Industry Recognition Awards 2012’
• BloostonLaw Telecom Update
  • WTB Releases Final PEA On Antenna Registration ; Says Further Rulemakings On Tap
  • LTE Device Shipments Could Reach 30 Million by Year-End
• The South American Pager , or “Wireless Messenger” during the Inca Empire (1438 to 1533 AD).
• THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
  • Rule no. 62

It's a beautiful day today, here in Southern Illinois. Have a great weekend.

• Leavitt Communications reduces the price on a lot pagers for sale.
• Hahntech-USA, a South Korean manufacturer of Two-way Pagers has just renewed their ad (with a new one) for another six months. It looks great.
• A first-time-new ad this week is from our friends at American Messaging.
• MOVIE RECOMMENDATION
  • The Millennium Trilogy
    • The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
    • The Girl Who Played With Fire
    • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
• What LTE means for Apple's new iPad
• CRITICAL MESSAGING CONVENTION
  • Agenda Preview
• AT&T to launch enhanced location options for MAM under location information services
• Invasion of the flying robots
• Japan builds Tokyo Sky Tree, world's tallest tower
• Speedy 802.11ac Wi-Fi set for fast, wide rollout
• Five things we learned from The Verge’s exhaustive feature on RIM
• “Twisted” waves could boost capacity of Wi-Fi and TV (Is this for real?)
• Drivers School Licensees Must Be Retested
• BloostonLaw Telecom Update
  • FCC Seeks Input On Certain Wireless Interruptions
    • Past practices and precedents.
    • Bases for interrupting wireless service.
    • Risks in interrupting wireless service.
    • Scope of interruption.
    • Authority to interrupt service.
  • FCC Extends Comment Dates for LightSquared Interference Proceeding
• Brooklyn Driving School Owners Accused Of Running High-Tech DMV Cheating Scheme (using a pager)
• THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
  • —C.S. lewis

• Tornado in Southern Illinois
• Ron Mercer and Bell Labs
• Bell Labs Song
  • “Bell Labs Innovations”
• CRITICAL MESSAGING CONVENTION
  • Agenda Preview
• De la Vega Talks Trash at MWC But Keeps It Clean
• Bell Labs Top 10 Innovations
• Ericsson's Vestberg says mobile broadband is all about change
• LightSquared CEO resigns amid revelations of company’s proximity to Obama White House
• FCC seeks nominations for membership on the Technical Advisory Board for First Responder Interoperability
• Why Throttle “Unlimited” Data Plans: Save Bandwidth or Drive Conversions to Tiered Data?
• BloostonLaw Telecom Update
  • Study Says "Data Throttling" Does Not Address Heavy Use Problem
  • A n unemployed truck driver in California, successfully sued AT&T in Small Claims Court for throttling data on his iPhone
  • LightSquared CEO Resigns
• TECH TIP OF THE WEEK
  • How-To: Splice Wire to NASA Standards
• LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
  • Ken Cowan has some Glenayre Transmitters for sale
  • Glenn Boal needs help with passwords for old TSR Pagers
  • Abe Silos Looking for Background Information on FM Broadcasting in the USA
• THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK
  • Taking Charge of Your Own Life

• How About a new Column on Wireless Industry Leaders?
• Phil Leavitt has approximately 1,500 new Bravo 501 900 MHz FLEX numeric pagers (synthesized) available for $14.50 each.
• CRITICAL MESSAGING CONVENTION
  • Agenda Preview
• Critical Alert Systems Acquires Intego Systems, Leading Provider of Nurse Call and Workflow Solutions to the Healthcare Industry
• USA Mobility Reports Fourth Quarter and 2011 Operating Results
• CERN neutrino shock may be down to faulty connector
• RIM hopes beefed-up PlayBook will get it back in the tablet race
• For Space Mess, Scientists Seek Celestial Broom
• Hollywood Movie Features Morse Code, Homebrew Equipment — and Sea Monsters!
• BloostonLaw Telecom Update
  • FCC Issues Advisory to Comply with CPNI Certification by March 1
• THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK
  • Thoughts on Aging

• Update on LightSquared
  • NTIA letter says No Way!
  • FCC responds to NTIA letter
  • FCC Public Notice asks for comments on their “tentative conclusions”
  • LightSquared Vows to Keep Seeking a GPS Solution (link)
  • LightSquared may pursue spectrum swap, claims political foul play (link)
  • Grassley: Still Blocking FCC Nominees (link)
• WRC-12 : Update
• COME JOIN US AT THE GLOBAL CRITICAL MESSAGING CONVENTION
  • March 27-29, 2012
  • Keynote Address: Campus Emergency Notifications and Pager Protocol
    David O. Cronk, Director, Emergency Preparedness, University of Texas at Austin
• Paging Survives Joplin Tornado by Leslie Prichard
• Zetron ’s NEW MAX Call-Taking System Now Shipping!
• DOJ approves Google acquisition of Motorola Mobility
• Did Engineering Blind RIM to iPhone’s Assault?
• Video: WRC-12 : Ole Garpestad LA2RR Interview
• Daniels Electronics Launches P25 Simulcast Solution
• BloostonLaw Telecom Update
  • FCC Acts Against Robocalls
  • White House Proposes $346.78 Million Budget For FCC
• THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
  • Book Review : God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
    By: Cullen Murphy

• The Q4 2011 global handset and smartphone market in 4 charts
• I have a section on the Paging Information Resource web pages for schematics and maintenance manuals. If anyone has more content that can be added to this "public library" of Paging Information, it would be sincerely appreciated. Today a friend is specifically looking for a schematic for the Motorola 900 MHz Nucleus II PA module. I was able to direct him to several Nucleus documents including a 428-page maintenance manual, but it doesn't have the complete PA module schematic. Please help if you can.
• WRC-12 : Update
• COME JOIN US AT THE GLOBAL CRITICAL MESSAGING CONVENTION
  • March 27-29, 2012
  • Keynote Address: Campus Emergency Notifications and Pager Protocol
    David O. Cronk, Director, Emergency Preparedness
    University of Texas at Austin
• SPRINT ON TRACK TO ELIMINATE IDEN NETWORK NEXT YEAR
• São Paulo State Police in Brazil Upgrade to Zetron’s P25 Compliant CSSI Acom Consoles
• Jones: A Victory for Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence
• Will former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick soon be a billionaire? [by suing SkyTel ]
• Ivycorp Boosts Service Desk Performance and Flexibility with OTRS Help Desk
• Nobel Laureate Joe Taylor , K1JT, Addresses Plenary Session at WRC-12, Receives ITU Gold Medal
• Selected portions of the BloostonLaw Telecom Update
  • BLU Seeks Access to Form 499-A Data
• THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK

• LightSquared Shenanigans
• FCC IB Docket No. 11-109
• Brad on the Soapbox (Comments Submitted to the FCC)
• Senator Accuses LightSquared of Bribery Insists They Promised a Call Center if Deal Approved
• WRC-12 : The First Week
• COME JOIN US AT THE GLOBAL CRITICAL MESSAGING CONVENTION
  • March 27-29, 2012
  • Austin, Texas — Hyatt Regency
  • Tentative Schedule of Events UPDATED
• Stepping down was a hard decision, but the ‘right’ one: Lazaridis — RIM
• Intel’s next big wireless play : It’s not smartphones
• CAR RADIO HISTORY (Can you believe, from Quincy, Illinois?)
• Test of Portland's emergency alert program shows 'high degree of failure'
• Rescuers describe pulling a Hopkins girl to safety after SUV plunges into the Rabbit River
• History: A Radio Traffic Cop
• The Brits Have it all Figured out:
  Forget global warming - it's Cycle 25 we need to worry about
• Selected portions of the BloostonLaw Telecom Update
  • LightSquared Asks FCC To Allow Interference To GPS
  • Verizon Posts $2 Billion 4Q Loss Due, in Part to Subsidizing Smartphones
• Tech Tip of the Week: Servicing Japanese Radios
• THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK

• Boooooo! — Not so . . .
  “For people who depend on paging to get critical messages, the stand-alone pager is now officially obsolete,” says Judit Sharon, President and CEO of Onset Technology.
• SkyAlert Earthquake Alerting System
• Earthquakes in Mexico (history)
• SOLiD Technologies to Present Public Safety DAS Framework at FCC Event
• COME JOIN US AT THE GLOBAL CRITICAL MESSAGING CONVENTION
  • March 27-29, 2012
  • Austin, Texas — Hyatt Regency
  • Tentative Schedule of Events
• No sale: Why a new owner can't save the BlackBerry
• Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust implements 2-way paging from PageOne (UK)
• Zetron Joins Digital Mobile Radio Association
• Daniels Electronics is Awarded a $10.4 Million Multi-year Contract With The Canadian Federal Government
• How Speeding The "Most Important Algorithm Of Our Lifetime" Could Change This Modern World
• Scientists create first atomic X-ray Laser
• Merger creates large wireless retailer with Jackson, Miss. operation (Jim Hicks)
• Selected portions of the BloostonLaw Telecom Update
• LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
  • Barry Kanne
• THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
  • Cancion de Otoño en Primavera

• The plans for changing the publication schedule of the newsletter have not been finalized — I am waiting for more input from the advertisers.
• American Messaging has entered into two management agreements
  • Morris Communications
  • ProPage
• Motorola calling me back?
• Montreal Smoked Meat
• Debate About Digital Protocols
• Federal body concludes LightSquared can't work with GPS
• COME JOIN US AT THE GLOBAL CRITICAL MESSAGING CONVENTION
  • March 27-29, 2012
  • Austin, Texas
  • Hyatt Regency
• Swissphone Announces Purchase of Firefighter Response System to Streamline First Responder Processes
• FCC Releases EAS Requirements
• Critical Response Systems
  • NurseAware™ — An Affordable Nurse Call System
• LightSquared Claims GPS Industry Rigged Tests
• FreedomPop founder cagey about revenue model for 'free' mobile broadband service
• Selected portions of the BloostonLaw Telecom Update
• Selected portions of the BloostonLaw Private Users Update
• LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
  • Carter Blumeyer
  • Alan S. Tilles, Esq.
• THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
  • Quotations about Integrity
    • R. Buckminster Fuller
    • W. Clement Stone
    • Spencer Johnson
    • Chinua Achebe
    • Don Galer
• My Reading List

• Update on Newsletter Plans and Policies
  • Reader Survey Results
  • New Publishing Schedule
  • Is the Newsletter Satisfying a Need?
• UPDATE FROM CMA’s PRESIDENT — Roy Pottle
• PageOne launches Blackberry Responder App (UK)
• Verizon Wireless and Novatel Wireless announce new Verizon Jetpack, Global Ready 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot
• Canton Woman Arrested for Stealing Nearly $50,000 from Premier Paging and Wireless Inc of Morley
• Federal Judge Throws Out Kilpatrick Suit Over Released Text Messages
• Man convicted of killing Brookfield [Paging] Businessman
• Selected portions of the BloostonLaw Telecom Update, a newsletter from the Law Offices of Blooston, Mordkofsky, Dickens, Duffy & Prendergast, LLP are reproduced in this section with the firm's permission.
• LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
  • Carter Blumeyer
  • Barry Stevenson
• THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
  • Heart Attack Warning Signs & Symptoms

• Greetings from the great state of Illinois, where we have the best politicians that money can buy.
• DIGITAL RADIO PROTOCOLS — Update
• GPS QRM (interference) — Editorial & Update
• BloostonLaw Reports on the FCC's New Antenna/Tower Construction Rules
• Verizon Sells 4.2 Million iPhones in Fourth Quarter
• Top 10 Alert and Warning Predictions for 2012
• UPDATE FROM CMA’s PRESIDENT — Roy Pottle
• Sprint Grants LightSquared 30-Day Reprieve On FCC Clearance
• (Jon Ive) Designer Behind Apple’s Products Knighted in U.K.
• Doctors have to manage smartphone distractions
• LightSquared GPS Interference Issue Faces Congressional Oversight
• Ham Radio: Plot Point in Major Motion Picture
• Better Business Bureau: Set up a Disaster Plan for Your Business and Employees
• THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
  • Cherokee Expression

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