First responders need 'interoperability'

3 years after the nine eleven terrorist attacks, thousands of police and fire divisions in cities and counties across
the United States still do not have coordinated communications capabilities. So says the First Response Coalition.

The First Response Coalition calls this lack of interoperability an unresolved national crisis and it has decided to take on the FCC and big business to solve it. This as the organisation reaches out directly to more than 43,000 local police and fire officials to solicit their help.

About the only emergency responders these days who have full two way radio interoperability are radio amateurs. Hams had voluntarily set world-wide communications standards many years ago.

Norm Seeley, KI7UP
Amateur Radio Newslines

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