Rebanding Assistance Available to All 800 MHZ System Managers

Horizon Resources, an industry leading communications engineering consulting firm has gone on line to assist public safety officials with the FCC Rebanding Process.

(PRWEB) June 24, 2005 -- Horizon Resources has gone on line to assist in the FCC 800 MHZ Rebanding Project for Public Safety Officials.

After an exhaustive rulemaking proceeding in which all affected and interested parties were given an opportunity to comment, the FCC determined that a reorganization of the 800 MHz band is the most effective way to eliminate both of the principal causes of interference: adjacent channel interference will be eliminated because low-power cellular-type systems and high-power high-site systems will no longer be spectrum neighbors. This will eliminate interference caused by the near-by cellular site's signal overwhelming the public safety radio's receiver. Since intermodulation interference is caused by two frequencies combining to create a new third frequency falling directly on a public safety frequency, public safety systems are being relocated so that they will no longer be sandwiched between ESMR (i.e., Nextel) and cellular (i.e., Verizon, Cingular/AT&T Wireless, Alltel) systems.

Interference in the public safety 800 MHz spectrum is any type of inhibition or prevention of radio signal reception. Currently, police officers, fire fighters, and emergency response personnel across the country are experiencing episodes of interference, garbled, fuzzy or blocked calls over their radios. This happens because public safety channels are intermingled among and adjacent to commercial channels such as those used for cell phones. Clear communication is a critical component for first responders to take action quickly and efficiently when it's not possible, lives are at stake.

You need qualified professional assistance to help you through this complicated process, and you can get that assistance at no cost to you.

Horizon Resources has been selected as an firm qualified to supervise this important project.

The FCC mandate on rebanding includes compensation for all reasonable costs for licensees. This means that the reprogramming of your system should not cost you anything. Your reimbursable costs include:

1) All labor associated with reprogramming your system and your units.

2) Replacement equipment (such as code plugs, combiner harnesses).

3) All necessary software changes (all Motorola radios currently operating on NPSPAC frequencies will need software upgrades).

4) Legal, engineering, consulting and project management costs.

5)Replacement equipment for older radios and repeaters which cannot be retuned

Internal staff costs for man-hours directly involved in retuning.

6)Costs for preparing the cost estimate

Costs incurred prior to the commencement of band reconfiguration.

The FCC Order directs Nextel to pay to the full costs of the nationwide relocation with no cap.

Nextel's performance will be guaranteed with a $2.5 billion letter of credit.

For more information visit Horizon Resources web site titled consulting911.com.

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