Sunday, January 09, 2011

US Forest Service Radio Purchase

The US Department of Agriculture / US Forest Service has purchased a large number of P25 radios from RELM Wireless Corp:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/relm-wireless-receives-15-million-order-from-us-department-of-agriculture-forest-service-112930354.html

As I have mentioned in some of the recent Fed Files columns, the US Forest Service has began to upgrade system infrastructure in US Forests near me for P25 operation. Some USFS systems in other areas have been operating in P-25 digital already.