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| May 2008 Newsletter |
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Greetings!
As you may recall, we announced last month that we were
discontinuing our eNewsletter to our main list of names -
some go back over a period of nearly a decade. Effective
April 1, 2008, only those who sign up for email reception or
those who visit our web site will continue to receive our
eNewsletter. The reason being that we are moving to a newer
form of communicating via RSS feeds and podcasts (a project
that will take several months).
Incredibly, we received the highest number of opt outs and
SPAM reports ever received to our last eNewsletter!
Apparently, this validates our suspicion that that some of
those on our list were not reading our eNewsletter. For
those of you that have renewed your request to continue
receiving the eNewsletter, we welcome you back. For those
that are joining us for the first time, we welcome you.
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 Getting
beat up with high fuel prices?
The current topic of conversation on everyone's mind is the
high price of gasoline. It is impacting us all! However,
with adversity comes opportunity, and these times are no
exception. A fantastic new product is now available that
can actually reduce fuel costs while improving efficiency.
It's called Navman!
Rather than trying to tell the whole story in this
newsletter, we'll just give you an example of what it is
doing for a small police department - Fuel costs down 10% -
Patrol activity UP 10% - Administrative control and improved
public relations significantly increased. Want to know more
about Navman? Visit our web site at
www.navmansystems.com. In the My Navman section, you
will have the opportunity of actually view activity of my
vehicle, even send me a message. This thing is INCREDIBLE!
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 Things are changing in communications!
Alabama Fire Departments using the State Forestry
network must convert to narrow band by the end of this
year. Federal users can only purchase P25 equipment,
Motorola is promoting a unique system known as MotoTRBO
while ICOM and Kenwood are advancing 6.25 kHz ultra
narrow band technology which will be required by the FCC
in 2011. Obviously, there are a lot of questions and an
unbelievable amount of misformation. We feel that an
honest evaluation of all the technologies is in order
and for that reason, we have developed a web site
specifically for the purpose of giving you an unbiased
report on the fact and fiction relating to the changes
that will soon effect every 2-way radio and paging user.
The majority of information deals with the public safety
sector with much of the information relating to
offerings by ICOM since ICOM offers conventional narrow
band analog, P25, and 6.25 analog/digital systems. ICOM
has also developed a replacement for the Minitor II,
III, and IV pagers which will not meet narrow band
standards. There are links to information on the
Motorola MotoTRBO system as well. Take a little time to
review this information. It could save you from making
a costly mistake. The web address is
www.icomfuture.com.
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 A
word about personal communications
We never realized how may of our customers were purchasing
our radios for personal use. It appears than an increasing
number of people are enjoying the benefits of personal
airtime free wireless communications and many of them have
caught on the the fact that you don't get something for
nothing. The wild claims of communicating 26 miles with a
couple of fifty dollar walkie talkies is causing a lot of
confusion and disappointment.
We thought the time was right to produce a primer to present
the real facts on FRS, GMRS, MURS, and other "License Free"
2-way radios. So - we produced a special web site
especially for those who use 2-way radio for personal use.
As an item of note, there is some good information for our
commercial users who are ILLEGALLY using GMRS radios in
their business as well as many of our public safety users
operating radios ILLEGALLY on MURS channels. There is
something for everyone at
www.mursradios.com. Check it out. We hope you will
find the information to be of use to YOU!
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And we close with a few quotable quotes
He who fails to plan, plans to fail.
Author unknown,
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain
dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. Author Unknown
The U.S. Constitution was written for one specific
purpose, and that was to restrain the government, not to
restrain The People.
Ron Paul - U.S. Congressman
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Falcon Direct, Inc. |
