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Moses Lake Airshow Recap: Reliable Communication in Action with ICOM’s IP501 Radios

Reliable communication is important for safety, coordination, and operations at events like the 2025 Moses Lake Airshow. This high-traffic event brings together aviation professionals, vendors, and emergency services who depend on stable, real-time communication to stay efficient. Tim Thometz, the Territory Channel Manager at Icom, at the Moses Lake Airshow showcases the company’s IP501 radios, which…

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Icom's IP501H radios were deployed across the 2025 Moses Lake Airshow for staff, volunteers, air traffic controllers, and emergency services.

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The system ran on a private LTE network backed by JRC's Wi-Fi link, enabling wide-area coverage without repeaters.

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The airshow deployment demonstrated Icom's focus on dependable, real-time communication in complex, high-traffic environments.

Reliable communication is important for safety, coordination, and operations at events like the 2025 Moses Lake Airshow. This high-traffic event brings together aviation professionals, vendors, and emergency services who depend on stable, real-time communication to stay efficient.

Tim Thometz, the Territory Channel Manager at Icom, at the Moses Lake Airshow showcases the company’s IP501 radios, which are being used by staff, volunteers, air traffic controllers, and emergency personnel throughout the event. The system runs on a private LTE network, supported by JRC’s Wi-Fi link, ensuring clear and reliable communication across the expansive grounds. The system’s performance throughout the event highlights ICOM’s continued focus on dependable communication in high-traffic environments.

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Where are we and what is ICOM doing here? Well, we're at the twenty twenty five Moses Lake Airshow at the Grant County International Airport. We're providing communications. ICOM is providing the IP five zero one's for the entire staff, volunteers, the tower, fire department. Everybody's got a five zero one, and they work great. Andy, can you hear me, Andy? I can hear you. Here we go. Loud and clear. Loud and clear. The JRC has provided the, Wi Fi link. So this is private LTE, and it's working very well, very smoothly, and everything's functioning. We'd also have one of these out on the runway for the vendors, so they'll use their credit card processing devices, whatever they're using. So so far, it's working really great. Everybody's happy, and we're glad to be here.

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Territory Channel Manager at Icom America

Tim Thometz is a Territory Channel Manager at Icom America, where he represents the company's radio communication products across regional markets. He works closely with channel partners and end users to demonstrate Icom's solutions in real-world environments. His coverage of the Moses Lake Airshow highlighted the IP501H's performance on private LTE networks for large-scale event coordination.

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Tim Thometz

Territory Channel Manager

Icom America

Tim Thometz serves as Territory Channel Manager at Icom America, supporting channel partners and customers across his region. He was on the ground at the 2025 Moses Lake Airshow to demonstrate and support deployment of Icom's IP501H radios for staff, volunteers, air traffic controllers, and emergency personnel. His work focuses on showcasing Icom's communication solutions in demanding, high-traffic environments.