From January 2000 through December 2003 I wrote a monthly column for Monitoring Times magazine called Tracking the Trunks, covering developments in trunked radio systems. In January 2004 that column was merged into a more general scanning column, which I now write.

All of the Tracking the Trunks columns are available on-line:

2000	January		Trunking Theory 101
	February		A Trunked System Demo
	March		Tracking Motorola Systems
	April		Ericsson's EDACS Trunking
	May		Logic Trunked Systems
	June		The Case for APCO Project 25
	July		Readers Track the Trunks
	August		Figuring Out Fleet Maps
	September		Can These Trunked Systems Deliver?
	October		Simulcasting
	November		Mailbag Miscellany
	December		Who's on Where?
2001	January		Sorting Out the Systems
	February		Seeking Frequencies
	March		Public Access Trunked Radio
	April		Motorola Type II Trunking
	May		Trunking by TETRA
	June		The Price of Progress
	July		Travel Tips
	August		The Digital Side of APCO-25
	September		To Buy or Wait? That's the Question
	October		Palm Beach County Confusion
	November		Making the Case for Simulcasting
	December		Olympic-sized Trunking
2002	January		Encryption for Security
	February		Nextel Proposes Restructuring 800 MHz
	March		Digital Monitoring in Sight
	April		Computer Interfacing Your Scanner
	May		How Radio Frequencies are Assigned
	June		EDACS Systems and Palm Programs
	July		AOR's APCO-25 Decoder
	August		When to Buy a Trunk-Tracking Scanner
	September		New Trunked Systems
	October		Recommendations from Our Readers
	November		The Quest for Interoperability
	December		Guide to APCO-25 Systems (Part 1 of 3)
2003	January		Military Trunks and Radio Manuals Guide to APCO-25 Systems (Part 2 of 3)
	February		Tropical Trunking: Puerto Rico and Florida Guide to APCO-25 Systems (Part 3 of 3)
	March		APCO P-25 Family Traits
	April		Testing, Testing...
	May		Motorola Busting Out All Over
	June		Sorting Out Talkgroups
	July		Converting Console IDs
	August		Radio Shack Announces the PRO-96
	September		Radio Communications on the Internet
	October		Tracking the Logic of LTR
	November		The Digital Diversity of APCO-25 Interoperability: Public Safety's Holy Grail
	December		Signs of Things to Come