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March 2011
IN THIS ISSUE:
• Icom Wins New York City Transit Order
for Nearly 9,000 F70 Series Radios
• System Provider in Baltimore Gains
More Channels and Customers
with IDAS
• Meet Your Icom Team:
Aaron Slagle - Advertising Manager
• College Campuses in Manhattan
use IDAS to Interconnect
• Icom P25 Radios Receive CAP
Compliance
• Icom Summits Mt. Everest Thanks to
Red Dog Radios
• Post IWCE 2011 Roundup
• Accessory of the Month:
RedHawk SA Speaker Mic with
GPS and LCD
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Icom Wins NYC Transit Order for Nearly 9,000
F70 Series Radios
As part of their goal to
build a “state-of-the-art
communication-based
signal system to replace
the mechanical signals
dating to 1904,” NYC
Transit is now using a
custom system of more
than 8,800 Icom F70 ra-
dios to manage fleet-wide
communications
across
their train, subway and
bus system.
With 47,000 employ-
ees working a network
that covers more than
5,000 square miles, and
using 734 train stations,
efficient
communication
is the lifeblood of a system that 8 million
passengers in all five New York boroughs
and surrounding counties each day.
The RFP went out last year, and the
competition was tough, but the require-
ments were even tougher.
“NYC Transit needed
nearly
9,000
radios,
each customized for the
operator who was using
it,” reports Chris Lougee,
Vice President of Icom
America Inc. “Beyond
that, they needed
things
like
custom
firmware, custom circuit boards that
could be swapped, a database allow-
ing them to track every radio and even
engraving on the hardware itself. All of
which they wanted to be able to maintain
themselves and train people on, which
meant the winning bid would also be
creating training manuals and teaching
NYC Transit’s own technicians how to
physically maintain the hardware.”
In December 2010, Icom delivered
8,825 of these highly customized pack-
ages to NYC Transit. Each pack-
age contained: an engraved
radio, belt clip, antenna,
charger, extra extended life
battery, noise cancelling
speaker microphone,
adjustable shoul-
der strap, and a
user manual. All
the
equipment
is
intrinsically
safe, each serial
number is part of
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