Land Mobile Radio Industry
This page will
host information that is not specific to General Electric's
radio
business but which pertains to land mobile radio in general including some nformation about GE's competitors in the business.
The APCO
Special Historical Issue of
March 1971 is excellent and well worth a look.
The May 1962 issue of The Proceedings of the
IRE was a huge special issue commerating the 50th Anniversary of the
organization. Included was The History of Land_Mobile
Radio Communications by Dan Noble of
Motorola followed by Future
Developments in Vehicular Communications by Austin
Bailey. Both of these are in the PDF file.
Land
Mobile, Successes And Failures In The 1970s
was a 1980 IEEE presentation by Jerry S.
Stover who had just retired as Chairman of Communications Industries in
Dallas, TX.
This one is about microwave communications. The article Industry Seeks Its Own
Radio Net
highlights the late 1950s battle between the Bell System and
the
various industries seeking to install microwave systems to lower their
communications costs. The industry in this case is the oil and gas
industry.
Some competitors' advertisements:
