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ShipCom Selects Tusa to Support HF Radio Efforts in Gulf Coast (7/21/10)
ShipCom, a provider of high-frequency (HF) maritime single sideband voice and electronics mail services, appointed Tusa Consulting Services as its authorized radio consultant to support emergency operations throughout the states of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and coastal Texas.
ShipCom was authorized earlier this year by the FCC to provide voice and data communications services to municipal, county, state and federal agencies, hospitals and other emergency responders during emergency events. Specifically, the FCC granted ShipCom’s waiver request to provide service to land-based (base and mobile) public-safety stations on HF public coast frequencies when normal communications systems are not available.
ShipCom’s HF frequencies are monitored around the clock by skilled operators, thereby providing call security during the most critical 48 hours following an emergency event. Operation of HF equipment on ShipCom’s network has been simplified through the use of half-duplex channels and idle channel marker tones. If a user hears ShipCom’s unique idle channel tone on any of a set of pre-assigned channels, the user can simply key the radio, call the ShipCom operator and the operator will respond in kind. Once communications is established, the ShipCom operator can then patch the call to anywhere in the United States using the public switched telephone network. ShipCom also operates an electronic mail service that operates in a fully automatic mode.
Tusa Consulting Services will assist ShipCom and its emergency responder clients in the development of compact, efficient radio antenna systems, procurement of suitable user equipment devices and user training.
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