NPSTC, Radio PCR Working Group Presentation to TIA TR8 Committee
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NPSTC, Radio PCR Working Group
Presentation to TIA TR8 Committee
Dan Robinson, Radio PCR Working Group Chair
Thursday, February 2, 2017
The member organizations of the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council are grateful to the Department of Homeland Security’s
Science and Technology Directorate, Office for Interoperability and Compatibility (OIC) and the National Protection and Programs Directorate,
Office of Emergency Communications (OEC) Points of view or opinions expressed are those of the originators and do not necessarily represent
the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
PAM Tool Development
• Radio Programming Compatibility Requirements (Radio
PCR) Working Group under NPSTC Technology and
Broadband Committee, 2012
– Committee Chair: Tom Sorley, City of Houston
– Working Group Co-Chairs: Dan Robinson, State of Michigan and
Ken Link, State of New Jersey
– Manufacturers Represented: Motorola Solutions, Harris, EF
Johnson, Icom America, Kenwood, Thales, RELM Wireless,
Midland and Tait Communications
• The Working Group examined short term and long term
solutions to minimize radio programming errors.
– The Working Group formed following several high profile incidents
in which radios did not function during an emergency due to
programming errors.
NPSTC is a federation of organizations whose mission is to improve public safety
communications and interoperability through collaborative leadership. 2PAM Tool Overview
• An excel spreadsheet was created to assist with
programming of different vendor radios in a multi-vendor
radio environment.
NPSTC is a federation of organizations whose mission is to improve public safety
communications and interoperability through collaborative leadership. 3PAM Tool Overview
• Creates a normalized set of radio programming data
field names and translates each data field correctly
between manufacturers.
• Is not designed to replace any vendor’s programming
software. Is designed to help minimize errors in
manual programming.
• Fixed data set was designed to allow vendor
development of an import/export function within their
software.
NPSTC is a federation of organizations whose mission is to improve public safety
communications and interoperability through collaborative leadership. 4PAM Tool Overview
• Current Status
– First version of PAM Tool was released in 2014
– Release V3 has been available, www.npstc.org/radioPCR.org
– Release V7 pending publication:
• NIFOG information updated to current version (1.6.1, 2016)
• Includes new introductory language
• Additional manufacturer added
– Coordinating with the Department of Homeland Security
Science and Technology and Office of Emergency
Communications to validate the PAM Tool and place it on
Public Safety Tools website.
NPSTC is a federation of organizations whose mission is to improve public safety
communications and interoperability through collaborative leadership. 5Future Action
• Use of Excel spreadsheet continues to be problematic
– Transition of user data when new versions of the PAM Tool
are released.
– Reliance on manual programming of all radio data fields.
• Future of the PAM Tool mission is best accomplished
with a standardized import/export function within each
manufacturer’s programming software.
– Removes the need for a “middle ware” solution
– Minimizes the manual entry to data when programming radios
NPSTC is a federation of organizations whose mission is to improve public safety
communications and interoperability through collaborative leadership. 6Why are we here?
Request for TIA Technical Bulletin
• Request: TIA create a technical bulletin that will define
a standardized data exchange format for basic radio
programming information.
• This technical bulletin is the “missing link” for
manufacturers to provide import/export functionality
within their software.
• NPSTC’s 16 member Governing Board voted to support
the request for the technical bulletin during their
conference call meeting on January 24th.
NPSTC is a federation of organizations whose mission is to improve public safety
communications and interoperability through collaborative leadership. 7Why are we here?
Request for TIA Technical Bulletin
• RELM Wireless has assisted the Working Group and
created two draft XML schemas which will standardize
basic radio data programming fields;
– one XML data string for conventional channels
– A separate XML data string for trunking systems.
NPSTC is a federation of organizations whose mission is to improve public safety
communications and interoperability through collaborative leadership. 8Technical Bulletin
• This schema needs to be validated, but is offered to
illustrate the requested action.
NPSTC is a federation of organizations whose mission is to improve public safety
communications and interoperability through collaborative leadership. 9Questions, Comments, Discussion
NPSTC is a federation of organizations whose mission is to improve public safety
communications and interoperability through collaborative leadership. 10Follow-Up from Meeting
The following action items occurred as a result of the TIA
TR8 meeting held on February 2nd:
• The bulletin was submitted to the TIA's TR-8 Private and Personal Radio
Standards Committee
• Discussion concluded with the establishment of a review period which
closes on 28 February.
• Once the comments from the review have been resolved, then the
committee will generally vote to move the revised proposal to a ballot.
• During the ballot process, interested parties are given the opportunity to
comment and another comment resolution process begins. At the
completion of the ballot process, a vote would normally be taken to
publish the proposed document.
• Additional TIA meetings will occur in mid June.
NPSTC is a federation of organizations whose mission is to improve public safety
communications and interoperability through collaborative leadership. 11You can also read
