Some power utility applications of mobile radio

In looking over the titles of papers presented before various PGVC sessions, it is found that many of them are on antennas, noise, selective calling, transistors and test instruments with a scattering on many component items and then only a very few on user applications. Of this small group, most of them are on City/County, Police/Fire and Railroad systems but almost none on Highway, Forestry, Petroleum or Power applications. Perhaps the feeling is that there is nothing of interest in this area, since the user with a small amount of system planning sets up one or more base stations and installs mobile units in trucks and cars just as everyone else has done for many years. This may be good as generalizations go but it is contended that in power system work for instance, many novel applications are possible and there are many challenging problems in system design, in fact too many to cover here. Just to cite a few: