System Planning Presentations

The following are presentations by our General Manager and engineer, Steve Dubberstein, on common issues in system planning.

• Public Safety Radio Systems for Rural Counties (779kb PDF) 
  As presented to the APCO North Central Regional Conference in April 2009, challenges in rural public safety radio systems.
    
• Simulcast Optimization (1.3MB PDF) 
  As presented to the Simulcast Forum XII in February 2008, techniques for optimizing Simulcast wide-area radio systems.

• Wireless Dispatch (706kb PDF)
  A presentation to the Wisconsin APCO/NENA conference in October 2007 highlighting the downsides to using unlicensed 802.11 wireless technologies in dispatch centers and other mission-critical environments.
  
  
• Narrowbanding (190kb PDF) 
  Presented to the Wisconsin APCO/NENA conference in October 2006, a discussion of narrowbanding deadlines, impact and technology.
   
• Marquette County Simulcast Paging System (1.6MB PDF)
  A presentation to the Simulcast Forum IX in July 2005 explaining Marquette County's Simulcast paging system, designed by Communications Service.

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