Medical information will soon be shooting across Western Australia's regional expanses, with the development of a new AU$21.3 million medical communications network which will cover 2.55 million ...

Once exclusively a tool for the military, today's highly accurate Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers provide the ability to know where you are instantly, with an accuracy of within 10 meters ...

Under the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) comms-on-the-move program, radios that lose line-of-sight communications automatically shift to satellite transmission. This is done so that ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Sept. 30, 2014) -- Volunteers from MARS are helping the Army improve its communications capabilities. They aren't little green Martians from science fiction novels, ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. When Hurricane Helene took out power and cellular communication ...

On November 8th, 2020 the Sun exploded. Well, that’s a bit dramatic (it explodes a lot) — but a particularly large sunspot named AR2781 produced a C5-class solar flare which is a medium-sized ...

More Americans than ever have been licensed by the Federal Communications Commission as amateur radio operators, and those in the know say that emergency communications is driving their passion to be ...

For many participants in the world of amateur radio, the initial draw can be something like the ability to talk to people from around the world. “It starts as a hobby. You want to talk to somebody ...

Police radio communications have been public ever since the Detroit Police Department began broadcasting one-way transmissions to mobile officers on station KOP in the 1920s. In fact, in those early ...

A petition to allow ham radio transmission encryption is getting some attention. Don Rolph of East Walpole, Mass., filed a Petition for Rulemaking with the Federal Communications Commission requesting ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am an investigative attorney and physical security specialist. Two-way radios can be one of the most effective communications ...