On this Day in WWII in 1942

On This Day In The Navy:

1942: USS Terror (CM 5), the first minelayer built as such, is commissioned. During World War II she participates in Operation Torch, the Battle for Iwo Jima, and the Okinawa Invasion, where she is struck by a kamikaze on May 1, 1945.

 

Career
Name:	USS Terror
Builder:	Philadelphia Navy Yard
Laid down:	3 September 1940
Launched:	6 June 1941
Commissioned:	15 July 1942
Decommissioned:	6 August 1956
Reclassified:	MM-5, 7 February 1955 MMF-5, October 1955
Struck:	1 November 1970
Honours and awards:	4 battle stars (WWII)
Fate:	Sold for scrapping, 1971
General characteristics
Type:	Minelayer
Displacement:	5,875 long tons (5,969 t)
Length:	454 ft 10 in (138.63 m)
Beam:	60 ft 2 in (18.34 m)
Draft:	19 ft 7 in (5.97 m)
Propulsion:	2 × General Electric double-reduction geared steam turbines, 2 shafts, 22,000 shp (16,405 kW)
Speed:	20.3 knots (37.6 km/h; 23.4 mph)
Complement:	481
Armament:	• 4 × 5"/38 caliber guns • 4 × quad 1.1 in (28 mm) guns (replaced by 4 × quad 40 mm guns in May 1943) • 14 × 20 mm guns

Rebanding at 800 MHz Celebrates its 10th Anniversary!

A history lesson for those who still believe that the 2012 Congressional give away of $20 billion dollars worth of spectrum to the Public Safety community to create and deploy a nationwide Federal Government owned and operated First Responder LTE network by 2023 is remotely possible.  Keep in mind rebanding was a privately funded 3 year project by Nextel to reband/reconfigure (not build from scratch) an existing network.  

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Ten years later, 800 MHz rebanding proves to be an enlightening exercise

Jul 8, 2014by Donny Jackson in Urgent Matters

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• Ten years later, 800 MHz rebanding proves to be an enlightening exercise
• Ten years later, 800 MHz rebanding proves to be an enlightening exercise

It has taken much longer than originally expected, but 800 MHz rebanding is complete in most of the United States 10 years after the FCC established a plan for the spectral reconfiguration of the band. Was it worth the effort?

“I don’t know whether this rebanding thing will work or not, but I can guarantee you this: There’s no way this is going to be finished in three years. There’s just too much to do.”

This quote was uttered to me in early 2005 by a public-safety official who was standing in line for food during a break taken at a meeting being conducted in the Tomorrowland Hotel at Walt Disney World, where the ambitious three-year schedule for 800 MHz reconfiguration had just been unveiled.

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To add more irony/evidence to those who still say "On Marc, get a grip, this is the federal government they can do it", let me point out that since rebanding started Nextel has been absorbed by Sprint and the Nextel network, which drove the rebanding project, has been decommissioned by Sprint.  Yet the rebinding process started 10 years ago today continues.  

Go Figure!  

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