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Icom America and Daniels Electronics Announce Successful P25 Trunked Interoperability Test

June 11, 2009 – Icom America Inc, an industry leader of state-of-the-art digital land mobile communications equipment, and Daniels Electronics Ltd., a leading supplier of high reliability digital P25 Land Mobile Radio infrastructure equipment, today jointly announced today jointly announced the successful completion of interoperability testing between their P25 encrypted trunked products.

According to Chris Lougee, Vice President of Icom America: “Our recently introduced F9000 series portables and mobiles have been well received in the market and we are pleased that we can validate their interoperability with a number of manufacturers, including Daniels. Daniels has a reputation for building solid product that is easy to work with and these tests confirm that.”

Daniels recently announced its new P25 trunked radio system at the IWCE tradeshow in Las Vegas. Building on its highly successful family of MT-4E digital radios, the Standalone trunked system provides a trunked solution for public safety applications that require a single site system that is compact, easy to transport, offers rapid installation and low current consumption. Fully compliant to the P25 suite of standards the Daniels trunked radio system is designed to interoperate with all P25 trunked handhelds and mobiles.

“We are very pleased with the results of these tests,” says Robert Small, President and Chief Operating Officer of Daniels Electronics. “They validate our core design and prove that our radio system is compliant to the standards and provides interoperability with other P25 compliant equipment.”

The Icom IC-F9011B/S/T portables and the IC-F9511S/T mobiles have built-in analog conventional, P25 conventional and P25 trunking capability, making them forward and backward compatible. The mixed mode operation allows operation on a mixed system with analog and digital signal and the radios feature multiple channel spacing options: 15kHz/30kHz (analog) and 12.5kHz (digital). This means most agencies can introduce P25 equipment without abandoning a legacy analog system. To ensure interoperability with other brands of P25 equipment, both the portables and mobiles conform to the standard specifications for TIA/EIA TSB-102, CAAB, Digital C4FM Transceiver Performance Recommendations.

P25 (Project 25) is a public safety standard for digital wireless communications defined by the Association for Public Safety Communication Officials (www.apcointl.org). These standards enable users to communicate with other agencies and mutual aid response teams in emergencies, for the safety and security of communities across North America and the world.

About Daniels Electronics Ltd.
Daniels Electronics Ltd. is a North American leader in the design and manufacture of customized radio communications systems for specialized applications. For the past 50 years Daniels has provided our customers in North America and internationally with highly reliable base stations, repeaters and paging equipment that is environmentally robust and operates in rugged and extreme temperature conditions where low current consumption is a key requirement. For more information about Daniels Electronics, visit www.danelec.com.

About Icom America Inc
Icom America's parent company, Icom Inc., was founded in Osaka Japan. Icom is a publicly held Japanese corporation; its stock is traded on the Tokyo and Osaka Stock Exchange. Icom began as an engineering and manufacturing company, making advanced, compact solid-state radio equipment for use by amateur radio enthusiasts. Icom has since grown to become an industry leader, with a product line that includes other state-of-the-art digital communications equipment for land and marine use as well as ham (amateur) and avionics. Icom America's headquarters are in Bellevue, Washington. www.icomamerica.com.