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A tribute to Gregg Miller

Published Wednesday, November 01, 2006

This past month, Gregg Miller, president of Racom in Marshalltown, Iowa — and an important figure in the land mobile industry — passed away. You may not know Miller by name. But his impact on the industry has been significant. He was undoubtedly a visionary when it came to land mobile. In the early 1980s, Miller developed the first wide-area specialized mobile radio system. He convinced the Federal Communications Commission to waive rules so he could build what became an 80-plus site, trunked radio system covering six states, beginning with GE-MARC technology and eventually morphing into an EDACS ...

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