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Icom Portables Support Republican National Convention Security IDAS Radios Provide Short Line Railroads With a Bridge to Future Communications Apco International Provides an Excellent Forum to Showcase Icoms Family of P25 Products.
Palos Hills PD Investigates Portables, Chooses the Icom F4161 Icom Land Mobile and Marine Product Repair Rent Icom - If You Like It, Its Yours
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The company provides training, set-up, and 24/7 support for all rental customers. For the National Republican Convention, the company also reprogrammed the radios to the local public safety frequencies and the specs from the Secret Service. While the Republican National Convention remains one of the most high-prole events to date for Professional Wireless, the dealer is no stranger to big productions. It also provides radio rentals to the Minnesota Vikings NFL team and Minnesota Golden Gophers NCAA football games at the Metro Dome. This summer it also rented Icom portables and a repeater
to the LPGA U.S. Womens Open held in June at the Interlachen Country Club in Edina, Minn.
IDAS Radios Provide Short Line Railroads With a Bridge to Future Communications
are competing 6.25 kHz equivalent technologies out there, said Mike Utecht, Icoms Railroad Key Account Manager. The WCC has recommended NXDN as the choice for the Class One Railroads and they are recommending that the short lines do the same. The importance of having a standard to the railroad industry cannot be understated. With multiple railroads sharing the same track, communication between short lines and Class One Railroads becomes a safety of life and property issue. The NXDN standard was jointly developed by Icom and Kenwood Corp. NXDN is not a proprietary technology, so railroads are not locked into a single vendor. In July, six other manufacturers joined them to support the standard, including Daniels Electronics Ltd., Ritron Inc. and Trident Micro Systems. The result is the NXDN Forum. Nationwide, short line railroads account for more than 800 companies with $3 billion in revenues. These independent companies, named for their smaller Continued on page 3
For many industries, the path to future technology can be lled with uncertainty. For short line railroads, however, decisions on which radios to choose in the future just got a lot easier to make. The Association of American Railroads Wireless Communications Committee (WCC), which represents the Class One Railroads such as Union Pacic, BNSF, Norfolk Southern and CXS Transportation, has recommended that any railroad purchasing VHF trimode radios for use in the 160 MHz band specify NXDN common air interface compliance for 6.25 hHz very narrowband operation. This announcement is very important for the short lines because there
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The Icom FR5000 series repeaters can receive both analog and digital signals on a single channel.
size, often carry interchange trafc for the Class One Railroads. Sometimes, they link together two industries, carrying commodities back and forth. Other times, they carry tourist passengers. While they may be small, short lines are vital to the U.S. economy.
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APCO International Provides an Excellent Forum to Showcase Icoms Family of P25 Products
We displayed Icoms new P25 Trunking portables (F9011 series) and mobiles (F9511 series) at the show. Also, a new 110W Trunking P25 mobile (F9511H) was displayed (although this product has not been formally announced yet, and estimated availability is January 2009). Icom America offers 4 series of P25 products and, because of APCO, we have received high interests in those P25 products! Another key highlight was a collaboration between Icom, Etherstack, Inc, and Raytheon JPS on a P25 Trunking repeater. We had a live demo throughout the show and it worked out awlessly we were able to communicate between the booths of each vendor using Icom radios and the repeaters. Interoperability is the name of the game these days, and our ISSI interface that connects one P25 to another was also a big hit.
The APCO International show is a great place to get one on one time with the experts at Icom, and this year was no different! With both product and engineering folks at the booth, we had all of your questions covered. So what was our best product at APCO International this year? Anything and everything P25, of course! Set up in our brand-new smart looking booth were the following recent additions to the Icom family of products:
New P25 Trunking Portable and Mobile - F9011 series and F9511 series, and new F9511H prototype P25 Trunking repeater in collabor ation with Etherstack and JPS Intrinsically Safe Portable - F70 series, F50 series, M88 Submersible Portable - F50 series and F70 series radios in water tank (with real goldsh!) FIPS (Federal Information Pro cessing Standards) encryption radios - F1721D/F1821D, F70D/F80D Enhanced MDC-1200-- F70/F80 series & F1721/F1821 series IAS Systems - (100W, DRB-25 repeaters) Aviation radios and receivers (A14, A210, R9500, R20)
Icoms new P25 Trunking Portable (F9011T) and the 110W Trunking P25 mobile (F9511H)
APCO International provides an excellent forum to showcase Icoms expanded family of P25 products says Jim Smith, Government Sales Manager at Icom America. Our expanded basket of P25 products and dynamic staff made for another excellent APCO International show - we look forward to seeing YOU next year! For more information on P25, please visit our website: www.icomamerica.com
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Icom Americas Service Department is continually looking for ways to improve repairs and turn times to get our customers their equipment as quickly as possible. One way we accomplish this is making Icom Service Centers (ISC) available to our customers. Today Id like to highlight our Icom East ISC located in Syracuse, New York. This company, also known as United Radio, has been in the repair business for over 85 years and is a full servicing repair center for Icoms land mobile and marine VHF (non-single sideband) products. They cover the entire east coast region and beyond, providing exceptional in/ out of warranty service of those products while utilizing in stock OEM parts. The typical turnaround time is 1 week door to door, or 3 business days in house, for most products. In addition, as an authorized Icom dealer you are able to track the status of your repairs in real time via their secure web portal.
To request service on your Icom product please contact United Radio: 1.877.349.4266. Eastern Service Center hours of operation are 8:00 5:00, Monday Friday. The mailing address is: Icom Service Center New York 5703 Enterprise Parkway East Syracuse, NY 13057
I highly encourage any customer or dealer on the east coast to give them your servicing business. Dwayne Black Icom America National Service Manager
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Purchase Option 50% of your rental payments will apply to the purchase of the units.
Propose this option to your rental customers as a try & buy program. If your customer exercises the purchase option, we will ship NEW radios upon return of the rental radios. If they decide they want to purchase a P25compliant digital radio instead of the rental radios, we will gladly accommodate such requests.
To try out the rental program, contact Customer Service and ask for the rental program administrator. Email: rentals@icomamerica.com Phone: 800-858-6252 Fax: 425.454.1509
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