by AllThingsECC.com | May 14, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
How much and where will High-Power User Equipment (HPUE) devices provide additional coverage?
This week’s Advocate about HPUE is divided into sections. The first discusses the impact of using high-power user devices for Band 14 FirstNet in terms of coverage and data speeds, the middle section presents a little history and then explains some of the technology that goes into FirstNet and other LTE-based networks in non-technical terms, and the last section gives use cases for HPUE followed by a more in-depth discussion of some interesting products entering the market that are designed to enable FirstNet to support higher-power end-user devices…
by AllThingsECC.com | May 14, 2020 | Comm Center News
Michaela Foody specializes in emergencies. As a Saint Michael’s College (SMC) alum, she served on the SMC Fire and Rescue squad before joining the University of Vermont Medical Center as an Emergency Communications Specialist. Now, amid a global pandemic, she began a new job as Milton’s Public Safety Director.
Foody started on April 27 and moved to full-time at the position on May 4. As the Public Safety Director, Foody works with the heads of service for the Milton Police Department, Fire…
by AllThingsECC.com | May 14, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
By Richard Mirgon, Public Safety Consultant
Several years ago, there was a company called LightSquared that some of you may recall and prior to that name they were known as Sky Terra. This company operated satellites that would be used for land-based LTE Communications. It turns out this spectrum and these satellites interfered with GPS. After some reports of interference and significant testing they found that their signal interfered with and had negative impacts on the Department of Defense, aviation, and public safety, to name a few. Part of the problem is that P25 systems use GPS to sync the networks and…
by AllThingsECC.com | May 13, 2020 | Comm Center News
A 911 dispatcher is being credited for helping save the life of a suicidal man.
Last month, the caller said he was determined to die while driving around the Twin Cities.
Minnesota State Patrol dispatcher Marty O’Hehir spoke to the caller for twenty-two minutes and was able to bring everything to a peaceful end.
“It was a crazy call,” O’Hehir said. “It was high speed, lots of action, lots of conversation, it…
by AllThingsECC.com | May 13, 2020 | Comm Center News
An entire wall at the Emporia Police Department has been dedicated to those law enforcement officers who have given their lives to serving the public.
In honor of National Police Week, the Lyon County Emergency Communications Center events committee went above and beyond to honor those officers who have fallen in the line of duty. Over 100 pictures and names of officers from across the state of Kansas currently adorn the wall according to Lyon County Emergency Communications Director Roxanne Van Gundy…
