Casio PhoneMate Inc. has introduced a new product that combines an answering machine with Pager Link, a device that automatically calls a user’s pager whenever a new message is received and lets users choose between being paged after every new message or only if the caller leaves an important message and enters the pound (#) sign. The TP-340 also offers a Pager Learn button that remembers all numbers entered and the necessary pauses between dialing the pager company number, any personal identification number and the alert number to display on the pager, said Casio. (310) 618-9910.
Raytheon E-Systems announced its Fully Adaptive Smart Antenna System. The product will give cellular providers the ability to increase cellular call capacity, improve network efficiency and offer a foundation for enhanced services, said the company. In field tests, Raytheon said its antenna system doubled existing cellular capacity through intelligent spectrum management, which allows the system to process at least twice as many channels as current systems by reducing interference and forming signal beams along the receipt and transmission of energy. Benefits of the antenna include clearer connections, fewer dropped calls and decreased signal fading, said the company. (703) 560-5000.
Environmental Data Resources Inc.’s division, EDR-Wireless Group, has released the second quarter edition of PCS-ScoreKeeper, a map-based information resource that tracks personal communications services market development. EDR said the resource, published by EDR and the Personal Communications Industry Association, is a three-volume reference that includes more than 3,000 pages of information on the PCS industry and more than 600 maps that depict recent auction winners, cellular operators and key market demographics. Volumes one and two of the product include the Geographic Strategic Planner, which consists of major trading areas, basic trading areas and county maps, market news, system buildout data and a county index, said EDR. The Company Strategic Planner, which makes up volume three, includes company abstracts on all A-, B- and C-block winners providing information such as key executives, address and e-mail information, subsidiaries and affiliates, technology selections and wireless market position. National PCS/cellular coverage maps for each broadband A and B PCS operator are also included, said the company. (800) 788-8122.
IFR Systems Inc.’s applications software group announced it has completed a new macro library that expands the functionality of the company’s AN900 Series spectrum analyzers. The library includes 10 macro programs that company engineers say give AN900 users expanded general and cellular test capabilities. For cellular testing, the firmware features macros for measuring adjacent channel power, complete with an ACP graph mode, cellular channel mode that automatically converts channel numbers into the appropriate frequency and an occupied bandwidth macro that places markers at the boundaries of user-defined percentage points on the occupied bandwidth, said the company. (316) 522-4981.
