[K6NCG] New Emergency Multi-Band Radio Project

[Charlie Kotan]

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| US Sets Up Emergency Multi-Band Radio Project                      |

|   from the switch-it-to-channel-danger dept.                       |

|   posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 01, @18:57 (United States) |

|   http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/07/01/2224231         |

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[0]coondoggie writes "Looking to help eliminate the dangerous and
inefficient hodgepodge of communication and network technology used by
emergency response personnel, the US Department of Homeland Security

(DHS) today said it had picked 14 groups from across the country to pilot an
ambitious [1]Multi-Band Radio project. In 2008, the DHS Science and
Technology Directorate awarded a $6.2 million contract to Thales
Communications to demonstrate the first-ever portable radio prototype that
lets emergency responders--police, firefighters, emergency medical personnel
and others--communicate with partner agencies, regardless of the radio band
they operate on."

 

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    1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/43196