ANSI Approves Standard Channel Nomenclature Revision
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approved a 2017 revision of the “Standard Channel Nomenclature for Public Safety Interoperability Channels,” said APCO and the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council Wednesday. The document “identifies common channel names for all FCC designated…
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nationwide interoperability channels,” they said. It came out of work that started 10 years ago when NPSTC established a Common Channel Naming Task Group for interoperability use, the groups said. ANSI approved the initial standard in 2010. "The public safety community uses spectrum allocated by the FCC and NTIA in multiple bands that is replete with interoperability channels," the document 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."