A Joint Terminal Attack Controller uses his Android Tactical Assault Tablet Kit during a close air support mission as part of a Northern Strike training exercise. (Scott Thompson/National Guard) U.S.

To address Soldier feedback requesting easier and faster ways to plan and manage the Army's advanced software defined radios, such as the 2-Channel Leader Radio, the service is piloting a new software ...

On September 11, 2001, some 900 radio users from 50 public safety agencies responded to the terrorist attack on the Pentagon. Some of the firefighters, police, and rescue workers had trained together ...

The author of this commentary is VP of operations at DJB Radio Software Inc. This commentary is excerpted from the Radio World ebook “Trends in Automation.” Virtualization. Cloud. Untethered Radio. A ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Oct. 15, 2014) -- Armed with Rifleman Radios and Nett Warrior devices, Soldiers spread across the battlefield can exchange voice messages, data and images, track friendly ...

The Gaston County Police Department will soon be equipped with new mobile radios and updated radio software worth over $460,000 in total. The Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to approve the ...

Software radio is the technique of getting code as close to the antenna as possible. It turns radio hardware problems into software problems. The fundamental characteristic of software radio is that ...

In 1976, two shaggy-haired college dropouts founded a company called Apple to manufacture personal computers. The company’s prospects looked so poor that the third co-founder relinquished his 10 ...

With the ever-growing interest in wireless devices, RF environment simulation is crucial to address the testing and development demand for communication systems and equipment, allowing engineers and ...

When the first USB DTV receivers came out with tuners covering 54–806 MHz, I wondered if any of them could be modified into an inexpensive spectrum analyzer. Thanks to RealTek and some Linux kernel ...

THE RADIO. It’s been around for more than 100 years. Pioneering work by Guglielmo Marconi and others in the1890s and 1900s resulted in practical wireless telegraphy devices that permitted ...