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Link: http://www.efjohnson.com/News/News_Detail.asp?ArticleID=192

EFJohnson Announces First Sale of its Trunked Netelligent Infrastructure Systems Project 25 Solution

Government Customer Upgrades from Conventional to Trunking System
Washington, DC March 8, 2004 –EFJ, Inc. (NASDAQ: EFJI) announced today that its EFJohnson subsidiary has contracted to upgrade a government customer from its Netelligent™ Infrastructure Systems conventional system to a trunking system. The sale is the company’s first for its Project 25 trunking system.

“We are pleased that this customer has chosen to upgrade its conventional system to our trunking solution,” said Michael E. Jalbert, chairman and chief executive officer of EFJ, Inc. “The customer has been using our Netelligent conventional system for the past nine months, and this demonstrates that our system has a graceful migration path from conventional to trunking.”

“The customer is mandated to move to narrowband by the end of 2004, and wanted to be on Project 25” said Bill Holesworth, president of Business Radio, Inc., the prime contractor for the system. “The customer has been operating the EFJohnson conventional system for nine months, and their solution provides the customer with a network that is easy to upgrade.” Business Radio has provided service to the customer for eight years, and has been associated with EFJohnson since 1979. Due to the sensitive nature of the customer’s deployment, Holesworth said, the customer asked not to be identified.

The sale includes EFJohnson’s Netelligent Infrastructure System as well as the company’s portable and mobile radios. The Netelligent Infrastructure System provides a flexible, cost-effective solution for both conventional and trunked systems. It delivers a complete Project 25 compliant solution that provides scalability, expandability, and a graceful migration from analog to digital systems and to future Project 25 enhancements. Using industry-standard VoIP technology, Netelligent Infrastructure Systems provide a secure, reliable communications infrastructure.

EFJohnson provides digital Project 25 compliant interoperable wireless communications systems solutions for federal, state and local agencies involved with homeland security and public safety. EFJohnson, founded in 1923, was one of the first developers of wireless communications products to be fully compliant with federal government interoperability specifications. The company designs, manufactures, and markets conventional and trunked radio systems, land mobile radio repeaters and mobile and portable radios. For more information, visit www.efjohnson.com.

EFJ, Inc. is the holding company of industry-leading wireless telecommunications equipment and solutions businesses. EFJ, Inc. is home to the EFJohnson Company, one of the first developers of Project 25 mobile communications products compliant with federal government interoperability standards, and Transcrypt International, a leader in secure voice communication solutions. EFJ, Inc. has a team in place with experience in telecommunications and government sales. EFJohnson and Transcrypt International are wholly owned subsidiaries of EFJ, Inc. For more information, visit www.efji.com.

Certain matters discussed in this press release constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements relate to, among other matters, future sales forecast and anticipated sales growth. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed, suggested or implied by the forward-looking statements due to a number of risk factors including, but not limited to, the level of demand for the Company’s products and services, the timely procurement of necessary manufacturing components, dependence on continued funding of governmental agency programs, and other risks detailed in the Company’s reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.
 

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CoffeeDrinker said:
“The customer is mandated to move to narrowband by the end of 2004, and wanted to be on Project 25” said Bill Holesworth, president of Business Radio, Inc., the prime contractor for the system. “The customer has been operating the EFJohnson conventional system for nine months, and their solution provides the customer with a network that is easy to upgrade.” Business Radio has provided service to the customer for eight years, and has been associated with EFJohnson since 1979. Due to the sensitive nature of the customer’s deployment, Holesworth said, the customer asked not to be identified.

Appears to be this Business Radio: http://www.bizrad.com/ so most likely the customer is in Washington or Oregon. Anyone seen any new public safety P25 systems around Seattle or Portland in the last 12 months?

Oddly enough, Business Radio is listed as one of the supporters of the Consensus Plan backed by Nextel.

http://www.theiacp.org/div_sec_com/committees/Comm_Tech/800MHzConsensusFactSheet-1.pdf
http://www.consensusplan.org/

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The news release says the system was sold. I'm thinking it will be sometime before it is shipped, installed and operational.

I just pointed this out because APCO25 TRUNKING previously had been Motorola only. Looks like some competetion is coming down the line.
 

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I'm thinking it will be sometime before it is shipped, installed and operational.

Whoops. You're right ... it says "conventional" on the existing system. Sleep deprivation ... zzzzz.

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maybe Border Patrol, Customs or other Homeland group?

http://efjnetelligent.com/

The Netelligent link says UHF and VHF systems. That with a mandate to narrowband migration leans me to guess feds. They also push the OTAR with the EFJ key management facility.

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I just pointed this out because APCO25 TRUNKING previously had been Motorola only. Looks like some competetion is coming down the line.


That's the beauty of open standards like APCO25. By the way, EFJ actually tested some of their first P25 VHF trunking units up here in Alaska on the statewide system. It was even an official and public request from them to the State and Motorola if I remember right. The State already put a purchase order for over $600k in radios from them.
 

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9600 baud in Washington

FYI two 9600 baud control channels just appeared today in the Portland Oregon area. They are both in the VHF fed band area.
 

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Re: 9600 baud in Washington

n7ryy said:
FYI two 9600 baud control channels just appeared today in the Portland Oregon area. They are both in the VHF fed band area.

n7ryy,

that's good news (in a way), now there's more people to share my pain with! :lol:

But seriously, I would like to hear more info on that Portland system and if anybody can track it.
 

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9600 in Portland

Two seperate 9600 control channels came online today, one of them I am able to get a system ID and tower ID on, the other is too weak from my home. Also another control channel came online today, but it doesnt seem to be a Motorola control channel. It sounds just like the control channel that someone found up in the Seattle area a few weeks ago, which someone seemed to think sounded like an OpenSky system. All three of the channels are in the federal 167-170 MHz range, so of course we can't search them out in the FCC databases. Should get interesting!
Jeremy
 

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I've never had any problems with my 5100 portables or the 5300 mobiles.
They've been pretty reliable for me.

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The-Mad-Titan said:
I've never had any problems with my 5100 portables or the 5300 mobiles.
They've been pretty reliable for me.

:?

We have close to 400 mobile units in service and 500 Portables also. We have seen many problems with both, but EFJ has been very helpful through the process.

Bill Jr.
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