Public Safety Advocate: T-Band Repeal after Nine Years!

Public Safety Advocate: T-Band Repeal after Nine Years!

by | Jan 7, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News

Repeal of T-Band Giveback

As many of you know, there was jubilation within the public-safety community when the bill that included formation of FirstNet was signed in 2012. That is until we came to the condition that, in ten years, eleven major metropolitan areas and their surrounding suburbs were to lose public-safety spectrum along with some businesses using spectrum previously allocated to TV stations. This 470–512-MHz spectrum had been broken into 6-MHz swaths to accommodate TV stations. Some of these blocks were assigned to public-safety agencies in major metro areas and some to business users. This T-Band spectrum is shared spectrum that would otherwise serve TV channels 14-20…

Supervisory Emergency Services Dispatcher (KY)

by | Jan 6, 2021 | Jobs

Summary

About the Position: Serves as a Supervisory Dispatcher administering emergency services communications operations in the DES
Central 911 Communications Center, Fort Knox, KY.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the installation subject matter expert concerning emergency dispatch services.
  • Administer emergency services communications operations for a large Army installation.
  • Provide emergency medical dispatch assistance to callers with medical emergencies…

Kenneth “Ken” J. Van Patten passes away (FL)

by | Jan 5, 2021 | Comm Center News

Kenneth J. Van Patten, age 85, of Punta Gorda, FL passed away December 9, 2020 at home. He worked for the Hennepin County Sheriff Department Minneapolis and later the Elk River Police Department and the Sherburne Country Sheriff Office. In his consulting career, he wrote many technical working papers related to wireless communications networking. He was a member of a number of organizations. He was a volunteer of Charlotte County Office of Emergency Management Communications group, The Association of Public Safety Communications Officers International…