Police Antennas News & Articles

• License plate frame antenna keeps communication discrete

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  Mobile Mark antenna is also a multi-band unit

• Software defined radios help agencies communicate

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  By Joseph HeapsDuring Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, winds and floods knocked out virtually every form of communication: landline service, cellular phone service, the Internet, and radio transmi...

• La. Coast Guard copters get radio upgrades

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  By Paul Purpura Times-PicayuneNEW ORLEANS — Widely heralded for saving about 7,100 lives by air after Hurricane Katrina, the Coast Guard is equipping its fleet of Dolphin helicopters with electroni...

• Texas prison officials want mobile phone jamming technology

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  By Mike Ward Austin American-StatesmanBuoyed by the successful test of cell-phone jamming technology Friday in a South Carolina prison, Texas officials confirmed Tuesday that they are working on a ...

• NYPD builds fail-safe communication network

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  By Murray Weiss and David SeifmanThe New York PostNEW YORK — The NYPD is spending millions of dollars on a fail-safe satellite communication network in the event land line and cellular services are...

• New technology lets police "frisk" from a distance

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  A radar-based concealed threat detector By JERRY HAUSNERMicrowave Journal; International ed. October 2007 International ed. Electro Science Technologies The EST approach was to use a frequency doma...

• Communication systems that work across governmental lines

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  A handful of states are in the forefront of building communication systems that work across governmental lines. Congressional Quarterly By Ellen Perlman Two years ago, a report came in of a plane c...

• Mich. city wireless network delayed

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  Local broadband service expected to be in place next year Grand Rapid Press (Michigan)  GRAND RAPIDS — The dream of a citywide broadband wireless network is not dead, it's just behind schedule, a c...

• Are we ready for another 9/11?

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  ''We certainly understand that state and local law enforcement officials want to be included earlier. The request from everyone is they want more.'' By Bart Jansen Washington, D.C. correspondent Po...

• Dropping the Call: Communication disintegration in NYC

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  By Mary Rose Roberts Mobile Radio Technology  The Metropolitan Transit Authority, or MTA, of New York doesn't want to talk about its $140 million radio communications system that is bogged down by ...

• Dallas PD fights crime with video surveillance

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  By Gregg Levin Security Technology & Design  Wireless system makes citizens, businesses and tourists feel more secure in the city's downtown area For the Dallas Police Department, protecting the na...

• N.Y. transit authority's million-dollar radio network too bogged down to use

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  Dropping the call:  Dead spots throughout the tunnel system put transit police at risk By Mary Rose Roberts Mobile Radio Technology NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Transit Authority, or MTA, of New Yor...

• New ray gun turns up the heat

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  The Associated PressSee Related Video Airmen pretending to be rioters scatter after being zapped by a new military ray gun during a demonstration at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., Wednesday. The millim...

• New York City police, firefighters to get $500 million hi-tech wireless aid

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  By DAVID B. CARUSOAssociated Press Writer NEW YORK- The city has awarded U.S. defense contractor Northrop Grumman a $500 million (euro393 million) contract to build a wireless network that will all...

• Keeping critical police communications fast, clear & protected

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  By Capt. Eddie Reyes Sponsored by Cisco Systems Have you ever just paused for a moment to think about what happens to your transmission after you push to talk (PTT) your radio microphone? If you st...