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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PAGING CARRIERS
The following message was sent out this week to the members of the AAPC. If you are a paging carrier and are not a member yet, this might be a good reason to join and get involved.

As a member of AAPC your company is automatically eligible to participate in the activities of the Paging Technical Committee. In fact, the PTC would be happy if you or a member of your firm were to attend and join in the sometimes lively technical discussions.

The PTC is an ad-hoc group made up of mainly the senior level engineers who run the day-to-day technical activities of the major paging carriers in the USA. They meet 3 times per year at differing geographic locations. The meetings are normally sponsored by either a carrier or vendor. In an effort to broaden its membership and gain some fresh thought, the PTC is asking you to participate in its next meeting. The date is September 25, 2002 and the place is Seattle, WA. The sponsor for this meeting is Zetron. Specific details will be announced as they become available.

The issues raised at the PTC deal mainly with the technology of our industry. Discussions of codes, formats, control systems, etc are the primary fare for these meetings. The person in your company most involved with the technical issues is probably the best person to attend the PTC meeting.

It will give your company a chance to meet peers from other carriers, discuss items of mutual technical interest and gain some insight on how our industry evolves in a changing technological world. All discussions are strictly limited to technical, non-business, issues. Vendors are always welcome to offer demonstrations of their latest wares, especially as they apply to the evolution of our industry. The PTC is the historic home of such industry standards as TAP, TNPP, WCTP and helped define the many changes made by Motorola to FLEX and ReFLEX. We are currently discussing issues of architecture for the next generation of wide-area paging systems. Please consider joining us at the upcoming meeting.

Send your questions, and/or acknowledgements to:

Stephen Oshinsky
Chairman, PTC
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We look forward to hearing from you and seeing you in Seattle.

Best regards,

Barry Kanne
Vice-chairman, PTC

ADVANCED RF COMMUNICATIONS ANNOUNCEMENT
The purpose of this letter is to provide an introduction to Advanced RF Communications, a provider of RF systems, engineering and integration services located in Quincy, Illinois. The company consists of engineers and technicians with extensive experience in RF communications, specifically with Glenayre and Motorola paging systems.

All personnel have previous factory training on Glenayre paging terminal and transmitter products and are experienced in the design, installation, optimization and maintenance of one-way and two-way paging systems. The services Advanced RF Communications offers one-way and two-way paging system operators include:

• System upgrades to switches, controllers & transmitters;
• Data and control link communications systems utilizing TELCO, Internet, RF, microwave & satellite;
• Design of site support systems including antenna systems, battery plants, hot standby capability, alarm & monitoring and other special requirements;
• RF prediction coverage studies of single or multi-site simulcast systems;
• Simulcast RF system optimization service for new or existing simulcast systems wanting to upgrade to high-speed paging;
• Project Management of system installations, upgrades and cutovers;
• Technical and administrative training;
• Maintenance of existing Glenayre & Motorola system products;
• Integration of SCADA, mobile data, telemetry, energy load management & meter reading functions into paging systems;
• Two-way device development for specific applications.

Quality workmanship and total Customer satisfaction are the minimum standards that are acceptable by Advanced RF Communications. A pro-active approach is taken when assisting you to determine the exact solution to fill your requirements. We feel that if we can assist you in the beginning of a project that you will realize results that meet or exceed your expectations in a timely manner.

We can provide a level of services that are tailored to the requirements of a specific project or continuing support of existing paging systems.

We are an authorized dealer for TGA, Zetron and Vytek/Sonik products. Additionally, we have a limited supply of refurbished Glenayre parts and cards available upon request. We look forward to working with you to fulfill your paging needs. If you have any questions please feel free to call or e-mail any of us.

Sincerely yours,

READER'S COMMENT

Estimado Brad:

Te felicito por ese nivel de comunicación que estas logrando. Cada semana doy lectura con mucho interes a la información que nos envias.

Gracias !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saludos desde México..........

GOOD DEALS
WANT TO BUY	WANT TO SELL
“Please list me as the contact looking for a paging system in the San Francisco Bay area and the Denver area that is empty, operational and needing a new owner.  We do not need [a license].  We do need a control system and a minimal terminal. The system needs to be high speed FLEX capable [on 900 MHz].” John Parmalee Jparmalee@aol.com 281-259-6362  Fax 281-380-3811  Cell	dear ladies and gentlemens, we have the following produkt for sale: NUCLEUS MOTOROLA Modell Number: T5481B it looks like this on the follwing webpage: http://braddye.com/nucleus_folder/nucleus.html the nucleus looks verry new and was only for some months running. do you know somebody, he need this nucleus for a good price ? best regards and nice to be hear from you Ewald Restle KIR MUSIC & MEDIA Überlingerstrasse 14 88630 Pfullendorf Germany Tel. 07552-922800 Fax. 07552-9228032 mail to: info@kirmusic.de
Need to buy 2 LCC cards for GL3000	Carrier needs these cards, can you help?

This week I got a carrier in the Ukraine who needed some Twocan pagers in touch with a carrier in Argentina who had some extra ones. The Internet is really a powerful tool. Do you have something you need or something that you want to sell? Let me know.

I have a new resumé on my web site from an engineer in Mexico. He is Javier Gómez, and he has extensive experience in paging and PCS. This was sent in by my friend Enrique Llaca, former manager of Motorola Paging in Mexico. You can view Javier's resumé by clicking here or send him an e-mail by clicking here.

ADIÓS AMIGOS
Well, that's it for this week. Please note my new mailing address.