A focus on technical innovation in transport and how it is driving changes in radiofrequency spectrum planning and use is the topic of the Transport Spectrum Tune-Up in Melbourne on 18 November.

Aeroflex has won a five-year, $47m contract with the US Marine Corps to supply ground radio maintenance automatic test systems.

IMEC and its research affiliate, Holst Centre, have demonstrated a wireless sleep staging system.

A $100 million International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has been opened in Perth.

Motorola has won a contract to provide a TETRA digital trunked radio communications network to Urumqi Airport, China, together with Beijing Civil Aviation Tianyu Technology Development.

Motorola Australia is providing an extension of the mobile data system of the Western Australia Police (WAPOL) and the Western Australia Department of Corrective Services (DCS) that will more than double the previous coverage area, providing the community with better-equipped police and prison officers.

Andrew, through its South African affiliate company Systems Designs, will provide indoor wireless coverage and capacity solution, the Intelligent Optical Network (ION) fibre distributed antenna system, in five of the 10 South African stadiums to be used for the 2010 World Cup.

Several of the world’s device and network suppliers in digital radio services have launched the Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) Association.

MiMOMax Wireless has won first place in the 2009 Federation of Communication Services (FCS) Radio Business innovation award.

Zetron's Acom advanced communications P25 system has been delivered to Tait Radio Communications for final installation at CTEEP, a major electric utility in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

EADS Defence & Security has won a contract to extend the Surgutneftegas TETRA network. The project will complete the experimental EADS network already implemented, replacing the existing analog network.

The large unlicensed frequency band internationally available around 60 GHz makes it attractive to support gigabit per second wireless applications, such as uncompressed high-definition video streaming and large file transfers.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority’s (ACMA) next annual RadComms conference will be held from 5-6 May 2010 in Melbourne and will focus on strategic, contemporary radiofrequency spectrum management issues.

Ansaldo STS has won a $2.5m data communications contract from the Western Australia Police. The contract is central to the police force’s plans to extend the coverage area of its secure digital metropolitan radio network from the current 9000 km² to 20,000 km².

EADS Defence & Security has completed the new TETRA-based communications network, selected in 2006 by Roskosmos, the Federal Space Agency of Russia, to refurbish the trunking network at Baikonur Cosmodrome.