Comments on additions to a draft channel naming standard were sou...
Comments on additions to a draft channel naming standard were sought by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials and the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council. The proposed standard channel nomenclature for public safety interoperability channels provides a standardized naming…
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format for each FCC designated interoperability channel in public safety radio services, APCO and NPSTC said. “It is necessary to develop and employ a common set of channel names so that all responders to an incident know which channel to tune their radios to, as well as the band and primary use for the channel,” APCO Executive Director George Rice said. “The public safety community uses spectrum allocated by the FCC in multiple bands that is replete with interoperability channels.” NPSTC Chair Ralph Haller believes “common interoperability channel names will help to assure that any organization responding to an emergency will be able to establish contact immediately when arriving on scene,” he said.