FCC Narrowband Deadline Less Than One Year Away!

The deadline for VHF and UHF licensees to transition to narrowband (at least 12.5kHz) operations is January 1, 2013. If you have not begun this process, the time to do so is NOW. Refer to the FCC's website for details about the requirements, and please feel free to contact us with any questions you might have. Also be sure check out the article by PMC's Matt Crossan in the January 2012 issue of New Jersey Fire Magazine.

Call to Action !!! URGE YOUR SENATORS TO SUPPORT :

“S. 911: ALLOCATION OF D BLOCK SPECTRUM, SUFFICIENT FUNDING & PROPER GOVERNANCE TO PUBLIC SAFETY FOR A NATIONWIDE BROADBAND NETWORK”

Please see the PSA website today for info on how to support this effort. Thank you!!!

Pyramid Rule Making filing with the FCC (update):

Over the past years, Pyramid Communications, manufacturer of In-Vehicle Repeaters, has been seeking expansion of the VHF spectrum available for public safety vehicle repeaters by proposing changes to existing FCC law.  To summarize our efforts, what we are seeking is truly a critical need by many public safety agencies so they can communicate safely and effectively during their daily use of two-way radio.  We are asking for certain spectrum above 170 MHz have its existing rules changes to open up the possibility of public safety vehicle repeater use on these channel.  Our primary goal is to help the end users secure the safety of life and property by good communications, as there is a definite need for better communications to portable users for many agencies.

Pyramid has reached the next step in the process to getting the FCC part 90 rule changes. We need your help.

This is another opportunity for the pubic to stand up and have their voices heard by the FCC.  We have filed a RM (Rule Making) with the FCC (see link).  What this means is the FCC is considering our ideas on the changes of the current law and will be taking comments from the public to form their decision .

Please--end-users especially--take a moment to file comments to support our initiative to expand the availability of VHF spectrum as possible, as this is the ONLY way to prompt the FCC to move our suggestions to a (NPRM) New Proposed Rule Making.

Please POST A COMMENT!  These changes are paramount to allow public safety agencies to communicate effectively in the field.

To post comments, visit http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/ or http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/upload/display?z=hgapa .  Reference comments on RM-11635. 

 You can upload a document on letterhead or simply  type in comments on form provided on the website.  Either way, the FCC just needs to hear what you think about the proposal. Thank you for your consideration.

The BOSCH Safe & Sound Demo Truck Tour hits PMC territory starting next week! The truck features TELEX Radio Dispatch Solutions, among many other Communications and Security solutions worth checking out. Please contact your PMC sales rep to coordinate a time and place to walk through the truck with us and see all of the demos. Click HERE for details about the truck and to secure your spot at the demo closest to you. Below is the latest schedule for the Tour, so please mark your calendar. We hope to see you there!

Aug 23 - Rochester NY

Aug 25-26 - Albany NY

Sept 12-13 - White Plains NY

Sept 15-16 - Edison NJ

Sept 19-20 - Melville NY

Sept 22-23 - Cherry Hill NJ

Sept 26-27 - King of Prussia PA

From the Public Safety Alliance website: The allocation of the D-Block spectrum and funding to public safety is critical to building a nationwide wireless broadband network that provides the capacity needed to transmit mission critical real-time high-resolution video, voice and data. Unless Congress passes legislation this year to allocate the D-Block spectrum to public safety, the FCC will auction the spectrum for commercial services.

Visit the PSA website to learn what you can do to help support their efforts.

CALL TO ACTION to all End Users of Vehicle Repeater Equipment:

On January 6, 2010, the FCC released WTB Docket No. 10-4, which contained several requests for rule changes regarding the operation of signal boosters pursuant to parts 22, 24, 27 and 90 of the Commission's rules, including 90.247 which pertains to the use of Vehicular Repeaters.  In response to that docket, Pyramid Communications submitted an additional petition specific to Vehicular Repeater use to allocate VHF spectrum for in-band licensing of Vehicular Repeaters.

Time is a key factor in the pursuit.  If licensing of VHF in-band Vehicular Repeaters is an important issue for your agency, we respectfully request that you gather up support to provide positive responses to Pyramid's petition before February 22, 2010, via the FCC website at http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/upload .   Select 10-4 as the proceeding number. Contact PMC today for a copy of Pyramid's petition. THANK YOU!

Vertex Standard Radios showcased as interoperability radio by NYC agencies. Click here for the NY Post article, and here for the NY Daily News article.