[TrunkCom] rebanding

[Tom Swisher]

Jeff Kenyon wrote:

> Hi Tom and the group, a correction to my last post I hadn't been there 
> in months, but how will users be transitioned to this new band?  That 
> will be the challenge with all the radio programming.  Does anyone have 
> plans on how you will work this out?

In a nutshell, users currently in the 851-854 band will be moved up to
854-860 MHz, and public safety users of 866-869 will be moved down 15
MHz. It's really more complicated that that, too much to put into an
email message.

The new band plan is:

851-854: dedicated Public Safety
854-860: Public Safety/Critical Infrastructure users
860-861: expansion band
861-862: Guard band
862-869: ESMR systems like Nextel and Southern LINC.

The changeover is planned in 4 "waves" based on the NPSPAC regions. The
basic schedule (subject to change) is:

Wave 1: Regions 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 19, 20, 27, 28, 35, 41, 42, 45, 54

Wave 2: Regions 4, 12, 17, 18, 25, 46, 32, 38, 22, 26, 15, 16, 24, 34,
39, 40, 44, 49, 51, 52

Wave 3: Regions 1, 9, 10, 23, 31, 37

Wave 4: Regions 3, 5, 21, 29, 30, 33, 36, 43, 50, 53, 55

Wave 3 is the Southern LINC (the other major iDEN provider) territory
comprising Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas and Florida;
LINC doesn't cover that whole area, primarily Alabama and Georgia as
well as portions of their surrounding states.

Wave 4 is the border areas, comprising Washington, Southern California,
New Mexico, Arizona, southern and southwestern Texas, Michigan, Ohio,
western Pennsylvania, western and north central New York and parts of
the northern New England states. These areas will begin last to allow
time for treaty issues with Canada and Mexico to be worked out.

Waves 1 and 2 are everybody else.

The scheduled start of the negotiation phases are:

Wave 1: 3rd quarter 2005
Wave 2: 4th quarter 2005
Wave 3: 1st quarter 2006
Wave 4: 2nd quarter 2006

There is lots of information at http://www.800mhzrebanding.com as well
as at the APCO web site.

Tom WA8PYR
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