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FRIDAY — MAY 18, 2012 — ISSUE NO. 507

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Dear Friends of Wireless Messaging,

The theme of this week's newsletter is:

What'll They Think Of Next?

First there is a video clip about the wireless Bellboy Pager, first introduced commercially in 1962 by the Bell system—it asks the question.

Then to answer the question, there are two reports that I found interesting:

  • 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

This amazing new "Software Defined Radio" from FlexRadio Systems (not to be confused with the FLEX™ paging protocol) has many "firsts." If you are interested in this sort of thing, there is a link to download a "pdf" file with all the details. Thanks to Barry Kanne for tipping me off to this important new development. I have been involved in commercial, military, and amateur radio for over 55 years and this is the most important new development in radio technology that I have ever seen.

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I am sorry to report that Paul Cassel VE3SY passed away on April 30. His obituary follows below. I knew Paul via telephone and e-mail but I never had the opportunity to meet him face-to-face. He was a very nice guy and had an in-depth knowledge of paging and radio communications. We worked together, a couple of times, on consulting projects. We frequently engaged in humorous banter on Facebook. I will miss him along with his many friends.

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A new issue of The Wireless Messaging Newsletter is posted on the web each week. A notification goes out by e-mail to subscribers on most Fridays around noon central US time. The notification message has a link to the actual newsletter on the web. That way it doesn't fill up your incoming e-mail account.

There is no charge for subscription and there are no membership restrictions. Readers are a very select group of wireless industry professionals, and include the senior managers of many of the world's major Paging and Wireless Messaging companies. There is an even mix of operations managers, marketing people, and engineers — so I try to include items of interest to all three groups. It's all about staying up-to-date with business trends and technology. I regularly get readers' comments, so this newsletter has become a community forum for the Paging, and Wireless Messaging communities. You are welcome to contribute your ideas and opinions. Unless otherwise requested, all correspondence addressed to me is subject to publication in the newsletter and on my web site. I am very careful to protect the anonymity of those who request it.

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What'll They Think Of Next?

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In 1961, the digital future was just starting to come to fruition—and the Bell System had a number of products that had either just come onto the market, or were incipient. The wireless Bellboy Pager, was introduced commercially in 1962.

Source: AT&T Tech Channel via YouTube

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DANIELS ELECTRONICS IS AWARDED A 5 YEAR CONTRACT WITH THE US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

daniels Victoria, B.C. Canada — May 14 th, 2012 — Daniels Electronics Ltd., a leading global supplier of high reliability Land Mobile Radio (LMR) radio systems, today announced it has been awarded a five year contract (2 year contract with 3 option years) with the US Department of Homeland Security for the supply of digital public safety radio systems under the multiple award indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity (IDIQ) $3 Billion (total ceiling value) Tactical Communications (TACCOM) contract. This contract will provide government public safety agencies with digital public safety radios using Daniels latest generation of firmware based digital radio technology.

This contract will be used by a number of US government agencies over the next 5 years to expand and upgrade their government’s radio networks to provide state of the art digital communications for the first line public safety responders.

"Daniels is very pleased to be awarded this substantial contract with the US government and to be able to provide advanced digital communications in support of public safety." says Robert Small, President and Chief Operating Officer of Daniels Electronics. "It demonstrates Daniels’ world class products and shows we are developing the right public safety products to meet the needs of the public safety."

About Daniels Electronics Ltd.
Daniels Electronics Ltd. is an international leader in the design, manufacture and service of specialized radio communications systems. For the past 60 years Daniels has provided customers in North America and internationally with highly reliable base stations, repeaters and paging equipment that are environmentally robust and operates in rugged and extreme temperature conditions where low current consumption is a key requirement. For more information about Daniels Electronics, visit www.danelec.com .

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Source: Daniels Electronics Ltd.

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Based in Coppell, Texas, a suburb of Dallas/Fort Worth, and located just five minutes north of the DFW Airport, PSSI receives, repairs and ships approximately 4,000 discrete units each day.

  • PSSI is ISO certified and has comprehensively integrated robust lean manufacturing processes and systems that enable us to deliver timely and benchmark quality results.
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  • PSSI ’s state-of-the-art and proprietary Work-In-Process (WIP) systems, and its Material Planning and Warehouse Management systems, enable PSSI to track discrete units by employee, work center, lot, model, work order, location and process through the entire reverse logistics process. Access to this information can be provided to our customers so that they can track the real-time movement of their products.

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FlexRadio Systems is changing the face of Ham Radio. It is not often that a team of smart people are allowed to start with a clean sheet of paper and dream. Imagine if we could take everything we have learned in amateur, commercial and government markets and build a new class of transceiver, virtually without limits. Imagine if digital radio capabilities previously affordable only for commercial and government applications were now cost effective for Ham transceivers. Imagine a radio that will be a platform for dream applications both today and in the future.

Imagine SmartSDR™

With the FLEX-6000 Signature Series radios, FlexRadio brings a wealth of new capabilities to the amateur including direct digital reception, transmission and networking. At the core of all these new capabilities is SmartSDR. SmartSDR organizes all of the signal processing power in the FLEX-6000 Signature Series radios into an advanced reusable framework. First, the RF subsystems in the FLEX-6000 are virtualized as reusable hardware blocks or Signal Capture Units (SCU) with specific capabilities. SmartSDR understands the capabilities of each SCU and how to harness its power.

As data from the SCUs enters the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) at a combined rate of over 7.8 Gbps, SmartSDR performs advanced Digital Signal Processing (DSP) on the data, splitting it into individual Panadapters and Slice Receivers. Panadapters are visual displays of the RF spectrum akin to a spectrum analyzer, but with more capabilities for the amateur. Slice Receivers are dynamically allocated full performance receivers that can be directed to the speaker or headphones for listening, or can be streamed as digitized RF to external digital applications. Panadapters and Slice Receivers can be created and destroyed at will.

The FLEX-6000 Signature Series is the first amateur radio product family to offer an optional built-in GPS Disciplined Oscillator (GPSDO). The GPSDO plug in module provides a precision 10 MHz reference for the 983.04 MHz master oscillator and to a rear panel 10 MHz SMA output connector for external precision frequency control. Frequency stability is 1 x 10 -8 within 5 minutes at 25° C and 5 x 10 -12 over 24 hours with GPS lock. Rear panel SMA connections are provided for the GPS antenna input and 10MHz reference output.

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It's still here — the tried and true Motorola Alphamate 250. Now owned, supported, and available from Leavitt Communications. Call us for new or reconditioned units, parts, manuals, and repairs.

We also offer refurbished Alphamate 250’s, Alphamate IIs, the original Alphamate and new and refurbished pagers, pager repairs, pager parts and accessories. We are FULL SERVICE in Paging!

E-mail Phil Leavitt ( pcleavitt@leavittcom.com ) for pricing and delivery information or for a list of other available paging and two-way related equipment.

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Milestone for Wi-Fi with 'T-rays'

16 May 2012 Last updated at 03:00 ET

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The device will be improved first by adding an antenna to increase its efficiency

Researchers in Japan have smashed the record for wireless data transmission in the terahertz band, an uncharted part of the electro-magnetic spectrum.

The data rate is 20 times higher than the best commonly used wi-fi standard.

As consumers become ever more hungry for high data rates, standard lower-frequency bands have become crowded.

The research, published in Electronics Letters , adds to the idea that this "T-ray" band could offer huge swathes of bandwidth for data transmission.

The band lies between the microwave and far-infrared regions of the spectrum, and is currently completely unregulated by telecommunications agencies.

Despite the name, the band informally makes use of frequencies from about 300 gigahertz (300GHz or about 60 times higher than the current highest wi-fi standard) to about 3THz, 10 times higher again.

It is used principally for imaging in research contexts, as terahertz waves penetrate many materials as effectively as X-rays but deposit far less energy and therefore cause less damage.

Until recently, the technology required both to generate and detect these "T-rays" has been too bulky, costly or power-hungry to offer a plausible alternative to existing devices tucked within smartphones or wi-fi routers.

That looks set to change; in November electronic component firm ROHM demonstrated a 1.5Gb/s (1.5 billion bits per second) transfer rate at a frequency of 300GHz .

Terahertz wi-fi would probably only work within ranges of about 10m, but could in theory support data rates up to 100Gb/s - close to 15 times higher than the next-generation 802.11ac wi-fi standard that is under development.

The new work, by researchers from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, demonstrated 3Gb/s transmission at 542GHz.

At the heart of the team's 1mm-square device is what is known as a resonant tunnelling diode, or RTD.

Tunnelling diodes have the unusual characteristic that the voltage across them can sometimes go down as current is increased.

RTDs are designed such that this process makes the diode "resonate", which in the current work's design means it sprays out waves in the terahertz band.

The team is now working to improve their proof-of-principle device and extend its range deeper into the terahertz regime, as well as increasing its power output.

Source: BBC News

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15 SkyData 8466 B Receivers
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8 Motorola VHF 350W Nucleus NAC Transmitters
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3 Motorola PURC-5000 110 & 225W, TRC & ACB
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Dayton Hamvention hi-def video

Page last updated on: Thursday, May 17, 2012

The Dayton Hamvention kicks-off on Friday and, as usual, Tom Medlin, W5KUB will be there bringing us live audio and video of the event — but this year with an added bonus.

Tom writes:

Hamvention is May 20-22. This will be our 10th year to broadcast Dayton Hamvention. Our viewers have grown to about 50,000 in over 150 countries during the last Hamvention broadcast.

The video site is http://w5kub.com and we are on 365 days a year when not broadcasting a live ham event. Over the years we have had special guests on the broadcasts.

We have over $8000 in prizes to give out again this year to lucky viewers. Some of our prizes are weather stations, Heil headsets, Comet CAA-500 antenna analyzers, AlphaAmp watt meters, D-star radios, Yaesu HTs, TenTec desk mics, G5RV antennas, and much more.

We have installed a new Ka Band internet satellite uplink this year in our flea market space so we will be broadcasting High Def video this year. This is a first for us. Log into the chat room and talk directly to us, ask questions to those we are interviewing or just chat with each other.

We will be setting up our flea market space and the satellite uplink on Thursday May 17 and will broadcast that.

Go to http://w5kub.com for all the fun, and also join us on our facebook broadcast page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/279273778772594/

After hamvention, we will be broadcasting our 550 mile trip back to Memphis on Sunday afternoon.

Thanks,

Tom W5KUB

Source: Southgate Amateur Radio News

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Harvey Paul Cassel

Date of Birth: Saturday, September 2nd, 1944
Date of Death: Monday, April 30th, 2012

Obituary:

paul cassel An amazing man, drew his final breath April 30, 2012. Beloved wife, Marel, devoted sister Blanche and loyal, loving friends and relatives remember his passion for people, photography, classic Mustangs and all things wireless. He was a CKCO employee, an entrepreneur co-owning a successful pager and tower company, VP for Bell Canada’s Pager Division and a RIM consultant. Paul was a licensed HAM radio enthusiast for 50 years. He will be missed around the world as VE3SY and here at home as the man who could make you smile, with a deep voice that warmed hearts.

Predeceased by his parents Harvey and Bernice.

Paul’s family will receive relatives and friends from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. on Friday, May 4, 2012 at the Henry Walser Funeral Home, 507 Frederick St., Kitchener, 519-749-8467. A private memorial celebration will be held at a later date.

As expressions of sympathy, donations to Hospice Wellington or the Grand River Hospital Foundation would be appreciated by the family (cards available at the funeral home).

Special thank you to the compassionate staff of both Grand River Hospital and Hospice Wellington for all the love and care given to Paul.

Source: ObitsforLife.com

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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.

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LIGHTSQUARED FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION: LightSquared announced yesterday that it commenced voluntary reorganization cases under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code to give it time to resolve regulatory issues that have prevented it from building its coast-to-coast integrated satellite 4G wireless network. The company will also file a recognition proceeding in Canada. The company said it fully expects to continue normal operations throughout this process. All LightSquared distribution partners and customers, including public safety, emergency response, government and military users of LightSquared’s satellite-based communications services can continue to rely on LightSquared to provide them with mission critical communications services, the company said. “The filing was necessary to preserve the value of our business and to ensure continued operations. The voluntary Chapter 11 filing is intended to give LightSquared sufficient breathing room to continue working through the regulatory process that will allow us to build our 4G wireless network,” said Marc Montagner, interim co-chief operating officer and chief financial officer of LightSquared. “All of our efforts are focused on concluding this process in an efficient and successful manner.” LightSquared said it intends to work with all key constituents to conduct an orderly restructuring process to maximize its asset value and to exit Chapter 11 in the quickest and most efficient manner possible. LightSquared said it expects that its current management team will continue to lead the company throughout this process. The filing was made in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York and the recognition proceeding will be filed in the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto, Ontario.

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VERIZON SHAREHOLDERS OVERWHELMINGLY VOTE AGAINST NET NEUTRALITY: Verizon shareholders last week voted overwhelmingly against a proxy question that would have required the company to apply network neutrality principles to its growing wireless network, according to The Hill. The publication reported that the proposal, which was pushed by the Open Media and Information Companies Initiative (Open MIC), was only supported by 7.9 percent of the votes from shareholders who either voted at the company's annual meeting or via mail by proxy. The Hill also noted that only 5.9 percent of AT&T shareholders voted for a similar proposal last month. Net neutrality prohibits Internet providers from slowing down or blocking access to legitimate websites. The proposal sought to justify the net neutrality policy by using statistics showing that minority and low-income Americans disproportionately use mobile devices to access the Internet, rather than through traditional broadband services on a personal computer. The plan quoted Colorofchange.org: "The digital freedoms at stake are a 21st century civil rights issue,” according to The Hill. Sprint Nextel shareholders will vote on a similar proposal next week.

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AUGUST 1: FCC FORM 502, NUMBER UTILIZATION AND FORECAST REPORT : Any wireless or wireline carrier (including paging companies) that have received number blocks—including 100, 1,000, or 10,000 number blocks—from the North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA), a Pooling Administrator, or from another carrier, must file Form 502 by August 1. Carriers porting numbers for the purpose of transferring an established customer’s service to another service provider must also report, but the carrier receiving numbers through porting does not. Resold services should also be treated like ported numbers, meaning the carrier transferring the resold service to another carrier is required to report those numbers but the carrier receiving such numbers should not report them. New this year is that reporting carriers are required to include their FCC Registration Number (FRN). Reporting carriers file utilization and forecast reports semiannually on or before February 1 for the preceding six-month reporting period ending December 31, and on or before August 1 for the preceding six-month reporting period ending June 30.

Source: BloostonLaw Telecom Update Vol. 15, No. 19 May 16, 2012

 

This newsletter is not intended to provide legal advice. Those interested in more information should contact the firm. For additional information, contact Hal Mordkofsky at 202-828-5520 or halmor@bloostonlaw.com

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NTIA Seeks Comment Regarding How Best To Implement Nationwide Public Safety Network

On May 11, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) issued a Request for Information, seeking public input on the best way to implement the nationwide public safety broadband network authorized and funded as part of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012. In particular, NTIA seeks input from public safety agencies, state and local government, telecom carriers and other telecom infrastructure owners about the best way develop “programmatic requirements” to govern state and local planning grants.

The Act establishes the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) as an independent authority within NTIA and authorizes it to take all actions necessary to ensure the design, construction, and operation of a nationwide public safety broadband network (PSBN), based on a single, national network architecture. Additionally, the Act charges NTIA with establishing a grant program to assist State, regional, tribal, and local jurisdictions with identifying, planning, and implementing the most efficient and effective means to use and integrate the infrastructure, equipment, and other architecture associated with the nationwide PSBN to satisfy the wireless and data services needs of their jurisdiction. Up to $135 million will be available to NTIA for the State and Local Implementation grant program. NTIA must establish requirements for this program not later than August 22, 2012. Therefore, the RFI asks for input on a wide range of questions, such as:

  • The Act directs FirstNet to consult with regional, State, tribal, and local jurisdictions about the distribution and expenditure of any amounts required to carry out the network policies that it is charged with establishing. What steps should States take to prepare to consult with FirstNet regarding these issues?
  • How should the States plan to involve local entities (and tribal entities) in the State and Local Implementation grant program?
  • How should the State and Local Implementation grant program ensure that all public safety disciplines ( e.g., police, sheriffs, fire, and EMS) have input into the State consultation process?
  • How should States plan to involve the Federal users and entities located within their States in the grant program?
  • The Act contemplates that FirstNet will consult with States regarding existing infrastructure within their boundaries, tower placements, and network coverage, which FirstNet can use to develop the requests for proposals called for by the Act. How can this best be done?
  • Can existing governance structures (including the Statewide Interoperability Coordinators (SWIC) and Statewide Interoperability Governing Bodies (SIGB), often called Statewide Interoperability Executive Committees (SIEC)) be used for the PSBN, and if so, how might they need to change or evolve to handle issues associated with broadband access through the Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology platform?
  • How should States and local jurisdictions best leverage their existing infrastructure assets and resources for use and integration with the nationwide public safety broadband network?
  • How will States include utilities or other interested third parties in their planning activities?
  • Should NTIA encourage planning for the formation and use of public/private partnerships in the deployment of the nationwide public safety broadband network? If so, how?
  • Should States serve as clearinghouses or one-stop shops where entities bidding to build and operate portions of the FirstNet network can obtain access to resources such as towers and backhaul networks?
  • What role, if any, should the States’ Chief Information Officer (CIO) or Chief Technology Officer (CTO) play in the State and Local Implementation grant program and the required consultations with FirstNet?
  • Should NTIA consider allocating the grant funds based on population?
  • What other targeted allocation methods might be appropriate to use?
  • What types of costs should be eligible for funding under the State and Local Implementation grant program ( e.g., personnel, planning meetings, development/upgrades of plans, or assessments)?

Comments are due 30 days after publication of the RFI in the Federal Register, and may be submitted by email to SLIGP@ntia.doc.gov. Written comments also may be submitted by mail to: National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, HCHB Room 4812, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.

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FCC Suspends Acceptance Of Certain Part 22, Part 90 Applications to Preserve T-Band for Auction

The FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau have announced a limited suspension of the acceptance and processing of certain applications for Part 22 and 90 services operating in the 470-512 MHz spectrum band (T-Band) in order to maintain a stable spectral landscape while the Commission determines how to implement the mandate to auction the T-Band spectrum contained in the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act (or “Spectrum Act”).

Until further notice, the FCC is suspending the acceptance and processing of T-Band licensing applications that could alter the spectrum landscape and thereby make implementing the Act more difficult or costly.

In a separate Order, the FCC waived, on its own motion, the January 1, 2013, deadline for private land mobile radio (PLMR) licensees in the T-Band band to migrate to narrowband (12.5 kHz or narrower) technology. The filing and processing suspension of applications imposed by the FCC applies to applications for the following radio services in the 470-512 MHz band:

  • Part 22 Public Mobile Services : Paging and Radiotelephone (radio service code CD), Off-shore Radiotelephone (radio service code CO)
  • Part 90 Industrial/Business Pool : Industrial/Business Pool - Conventional (radio service code IG), Industrial/Business Pool - Commercial, Conventional (radio service code IK), Industrial/Business Pool - Trunked (radio service code YG), Industrial/Business Pool - Commercial, Trunked (radio service code YK)
  • Part 90 Public Safety Pool : Public Safety Pool - Conventional (radio service code PW), Public Safety Pool - Trunked (radio service code YW).

This action does not apply to applications for radio services listed above that pertain only to operations on spectrum other than the 470-512 MHz band.

Effective immediately and until further notice, the FCC will not accept or process (1) applications for new licenses; (2) applications that seek to modify existing licenses by adding or changing frequencies or locations; (3) applications that seek to modify existing licenses by changing technical parameters in a manner that expands the station’s spectral or geographic footprint, such as, but not limited to, increases in bandwidth, power level, antenna height, or area of operation; and (4) any other application that could increase the degree to which the 470-512 MHz band currently is licensed. Affected applications that are now pending will not be further processed until the Commission decides how to implement the Act, except that defective applications and applications in return status that are not timely resubmitted will be dismissed.

This action does not apply to applications that would not destabilize the licensing landscape, including (1) applications to renew existing licenses without modification; (2) applications that seek to modify existing licenses by deleting frequencies or locations; (3) applications that seek to modify existing licenses by changing technical parameters in a manner that does not expand the station’s spectral or geographic coverage, such as decreases in bandwidth, power level, or antenna height; (4) applications that seek to modify existing licenses by changing the number of associated mobile units or temporary fixed stations; (5) applications that seek to modify existing licenses by adding or moving control points; (6) applications to assign, transfer, or lease existing licenses; (7) notices of construction or consummation; (8) requests for extensions of time to construct or consummate previously granted applications; (9) applications to cancel licenses; and (10) applications for special temporary authority for short-term operations. The FCC may in the future begin placing a special condition on new, renewed, and modified licenses for stations in radio services and frequencies subject to this action to remind licensees that the stations may be subject to future relocation or other Commission action taken pursuant to or in connection with the Act.

Source: BloostonLaw Private User Update Vol. 13, No. 5 May 2012

 

This newsletter is not intended to provide legal advice. Those interested in more information should contact the firm. For additional information, contact Hal Mordkofsky at 202-828-5520 or halmor@bloostonlaw.com

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