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Illinois Chapter of the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials, Inc. |
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Narrowband
Migration Task Force |
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News Updates The SIEC Technical Subcommittee will be meeting in April and reporting to the SIEC main committee regarding a state-wide rollout of all interop NB changes, and, as a reminder, the State of Wisconsin’s plan calls for county-by-county change of all interop NB channels starting April 2011, concluding November 2011. Bordering Illinois agencies need to plan accordingly for cross-border interop. 2010 Narrowband Seminars May 4: 9am-noon, Northbrook Public Library- Signup now! May 20: 9am-noon, DeKalb – location to be determined
Illinois APCO
in cooperation with other State of Illinois Organizations is
participating in a task force for the development of a coordinated
migration plan for public safety agencies under 512 MHz. The FCC has
mandated migration from 25kHz channels to 12.5kHz channels by January
1, 2013. This affects all frequencies below 512mHz (except for
VHF-Low Band). This Committee is dedicated to the coordination of
efforts in the Illinois public-safety community allowing for a
graceful migration to narrow-band for common interoperability
channels such as IREACH, ISPERN, MERCI, UHF-Med Channels, IFERN, WB
Fireground Channels, ESMARN, and Point-to-Point.
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For those
inquisitive folks who may be interested in learning
more about
the history and background of the FCC's narrowbanding
proceeding
and the resulting mandate (and, who happen to have a
fair amount
of time on their hands!)......
Happy reading!
NR
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A Historical
Record of the FCC's Part 90 Narrowbanding Proceeding
Basically,
narrowbanding all started with and FCC Notice of Inquiry
(91-170) in
July of 1991. A record of the filers in that proceeding
is available here:
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs2/document/view?id=6005043895
I haven't
been able to locate an archived copy of the actual Notice
of Inquiry;
however, the NOI was followed up by a Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking
(PR Docket 92-235) released in November of 1992:
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs2/comment/view?id=107799
The first 75
or so pages contain most of the meat and potatoes
related to
this proceeding....i.e. remember Part 88? How about the
consolidation
of all radio services to just two? Centralized
trunking?
Spectrum efficiency standards?
which
eventually led to the current narrowbanding proceeding known
as WT Docket 99-87:
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs2/proceeding/view?name=99-87
As those who
follow the above links will discover, the new and
improved FCC
ECFS 2 (Electronic Comment Filing System) really is...
Much of the
information now available has never been easily found
or accessible
to the the general public prior to now.