[ScanIndiana] ARRL, NATIONAL PUBLIC SAFETY TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL INK PACT

[Mark Thompson]

==>ARRL, NATIONAL PUBLIC SAFETY TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL INK PACT 

ARRL and the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) 
<http://www.npstc.org/> have signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA). The 
League is an NPSTC member organization, and the MoA culminates efforts begun 
in 2003 to formalize the relationship between the two organizations. 

"This agreement promotes the concept of strength in unity," the MoA says. 
"Speaking with one unified voice provides a clear and strong message from 
the public safety community." The MoA also aims "to promote a consensus 
input decision-making process." The NPSTC has been among the organizations 
that have asked the FCC to thoroughly explore the potential of broadband 
over power line (BPL) technology to interfere with public safety and other 
licensed radio systems. 

A federation of public safety organizations, NPSTC serves as a forum for the 
exchange of ideas and information for effective public safety 
telecommunications in the US and abroad. 

Under the ARRL-NPSTC pact the ARRL designated Chief Technology Officer Paul 
Rinaldo, W4RI, to be its primary representative to the Council (ARRL 
Atlantic Division Vice Director Tom Abernethy, W3TOM, is the alternate 
representative). Rinaldo will participate in NPSTC meetings and serve on 
committees and working groups. The League also has agreed to provide "other 
expertise, advice and resources" to further the goals of the MoA and in 
support of the NPSTC Charter and to promote NPSTC as "the collective voice 
of public safety telecommunications." 

NPSTC agrees to provide a National Support Office that will, among other 
things, coordinate its outreach activities and provide "national level 
technical assistance to the public safety telecommunications community." 

In addition to the ARRL, the Council's 13 member organizations include the 
American Red Cross, the Association of Public-Safety Communications 
Officials -- International (APCO), the International Association of Chiefs 
of Police and the National Association of State Telecommunications 
Directors. 

NPSTC celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. The Council will mark "10 
Years of Progress" during its Committee & Governing Board Meetings June 
11-13 in Denver, Colorado.


 
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