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National Public Safety Telecommunications Council

Nominations Now Being Accepted!!!

Dick DeMello

Richard DeMello Award - Each year NPSTC presents an award to one individual in public safety communications who has demonstrated the highest levels of personal and professional conduct and performance in the local, state and national public safety communications arena. The award was named to honor the achievements of Richard DeMello, one of the founding fathers of NPSTC. The award is sponsored by and presented during the Annual Awards Banquet of the Radio Club of America and this year will be held on November 21st in New York City.

We encourage your participation to help us identify this year’s honoree. Nominations will be accepted through June 1, 2008 and a vote to determine the 2008 recipient will be conducted during the June Governing Board meeting in Arlington, VA.

Sean O'Hara's presentation in Ottawa Canada at the Spectrum 20/20 conference discusses spectrum challenges and broadband uses in public safety.
By this order, the Federal Communications Commission's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB), on delegated authority, establishes a reconfigured 800 MHz band plan in the U.S. - Canada border regions in order to accomplish the Commission's goals for band reconfiguration. We also establish a 30-month transition period for completion of rebanding in the U.S. - Canada border regions, which will commence 60 days after the effective date of this order.
NPSTC presented a strategic initiatives presentation to the International Association of Chiefs of Police IACP, Law Enforcement Information Management training conference in Nashville to include information on Border initiatives, Low Power Television, Narrowband relocation and more.
LPTV and 700MHz: Maximizing Availability of the 700 MHz Band
The NPSTC Spectrum Management Committee’s 700 MHz Advocacy Working Group has released the new 'Maximizing Availability of the 700 MHz Band'. This document can be used to assist individual 700 MHz public safety licensees to notify LPTV and TV Translator licensees and the SBE with minimal resources and delay and much more.
 
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