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 ...

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.

There was a time when ham radio operators were known for having long conversations over the radio — rag chewing, as they called it. A new program, LongChat, is a new entry into the ham radio software ...

The Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International Project 25 is intended to unify U.S. public safety bodies, whether their role is homeland security or responding to ...

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 ...

Even though the world of software defined radio started out as a Linux-only endeavor, several recent software releases have put the ball fully into the court of OS X users. [hpux735]’s new Cocoa Radio ...

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 ...

No doubt most tech and electronic enthusiasts have encountered buzz around SDR, software-defined radio, and asked themselves “what’s the sudden big deal,” if the technology existed for decades? The re ...

The term "software-defined radio" refers to the use of software-programmable hardware to provide flexible radio solutions. It is conventionally abbreviated as SDR (see sidebar). The concept behind the ...

Broadcast Radio's new Myriad Schedule Pro software adds third-party playout support and rotation progression controls.