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Communications Center Mutual Aid Is Becoming Part of Disaster Readiness

Communications Center Mutual Aid Is Becoming Part of Disaster Readiness Emergency communications center Disaster plans typically focus on the physical aspects (i.e., the building itself), power generation, communication circuit back-up and restoration of communications. While important, these elements alone cannot guarantee that an emergency communications center remains functional during a Disaster. Many factors beyond physical

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August 28, 2026 No Comments

Everyday Maintenance Habits That Prevent Long Public Safety Radio Outages

Everyday Maintenance Habits That Prevent Long Public Safety Radio Outages Public safety radio outages can occur due to many factors such as a malfunctioning power source, broken feed line, environmental alert, or network issues. The length of time for the outage is typically caused by something much less dramatic then what initially started the outage;

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August 20, 2026 No Comments

Annual ERCES Testing Becoming a Data Continuity Problem for Building Owners, AHJs, and Field Service Teams

Annual Testing Has Become A Continuity Requirement For Emergency Responder Communication Enhancement Systems (ERCES) Public safety radio coverage is now considered a continuous maintenance requirement and not a “one-and-done” installation that gets forgotten about until something goes wrong. According to the 2024 International Fire Code (IFC), there is an obligation to maintain the functionality of

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August 11, 2026 No Comments

Satellite to Cellular Public Safety Coverage Extensions and RF Coexistence Pressure Around Ground Based LMR Gateway Sites

Satellite Access Moves to a Public Safety Coverage Layer The new FCC framework for supplemental coverage from space (SCS) allows satellite and terrestrial operators to utilize terrestrial mobile spectrum via defined authorizations and interference protection. This framework utilizes FirstNet licensed 700 MHz public safety BroadBand spectrum, often referred to as Band 14, for SCS purposes

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July 7, 2026 No Comments

Antenna Isolation Degradation Between Adjacent Public Safety Arrays During Tower Loading Expansion

Tower Loading Expansion and Isolation Margin Reduction Public safety tower sites are carrying more RF systems than their original antenna plans anticipated. Regional P25 systems, conventional mutual aid channels, utility radio networks, microwave paths, cellular broadband equipment, and in building donor antennas are often added over multiple budget cycles. Each addition changes the physical and

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May 21, 2026 No Comments

Why LMR Systems Require More Frequent Retuning in Modern RF Environments

Retuning Is No Longer an Occasional Event Land Mobile Radio systems were once expected to operate for long periods with minimal adjustment after commissioning. In modern deployments, that expectation is no longer realistic. Retuning cycles are occurring more frequently as systems operate in environments that change faster than original designs anticipated. This shift does not

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April 30, 2026 No Comments

Simulcast Solves a Coverage Problem and Creates a Precision Problem

Simulcast Solves a Coverage Problem and Creates a Precision Problem Simulcast remains one of the most efficient ways to extend wide area coverage in Land Mobile Radio. Multiple transmitter sites use the same frequency at the same time, allowing agencies to cover large service areas without assigning separate channels to every site. That architecture is

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April 17, 2026 No Comments

Why LMR Systems Age Faster in Urban Environments Than Rural Ones

Why LMR Systems Age Faster in Urban Environments Than Rural Ones Land Mobile Radio systems do not age uniformly. Urban deployments experience operating conditions that fundamentally differ from rural environments. Higher site density, greater building concentration, and constant infrastructure modification introduce variables that accelerate performance drift over time. While rural systems often operate in relatively

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February 19, 2026 No Comments

Balancing Connectivity And Control In Critical Networks

Balancing Connectivity and Control in Critical Networks A new fault line is emerging in critical communications. On one side is the demand for total awareness through continuous monitoring, real time diagnostics, automated health reporting, and predictive fault detection. On the other side is the need for operational privacy, the ability for agencies and infrastructure owners

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January 29, 2026 No Comments

Decentralizing Communications Infrastructure

The Edge Is the New Tower: Decentralizing Communications Infrastructure For nearly half a century, Land Mobile Radio networks have been built around a predictable hierarchy. Towers sat at the center, control flowed upward, and visibility radiated outward from a small number of high-value sites. RF conditioning, filtering, health monitoring, and fault detection all depended on

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January 27, 2026 No Comments
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