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08/11/2026

Did you know?

On this day in 1942, Hollywood's most photographed actress got a patent for something nobody expected.

Hedy Lamarr was celebrated as one of the most beautiful actresses in cinema. Nobody knew she was also a great inventor. With composer George Antheil, she patented a frequency-hopping spread spectrum system, designed to keep enemy forces from jamming Allied torpedo guidance signals. The Navy shelved it. Decades later it became foundational to Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS, and in 2014 she was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for it.

84 years later, communication is still evolving.

Today, we need far more than just push-to-talk. We need communication that can translate languages, share photos and video, document conversations, improve safety, and give leaders visibility beyond the radio itself.

We're proud to be a part of that evolution.

08/04/2026

An ironworker spots a bad connection two levels up. He can't radio it down. Nobody gave him one.

Eleven minutes later, the next beam is already swinging into place above it. We unpacked what that gap actually costs in this piece for Construction Dive.

On megaprojects, radio silence isn't the standard. It's a choice with real costs.

07/28/2026

We're getting all set up and look forward to seeing you tomorrow at the Advanced Manufacturing Expo. Find us in BOOTH 504.

06/23/2026

What do you do when a Motorola upgrade quote comes back at way over budget?

For Shane, Maintenance Manager at Alphia's Burns, Kansas campus, the answer was Walt.

In our latest weavix Threads customer Q&A, Shane shares what communication looked like before Walt and the real-world difference it's made across one of the most remote manufacturing campuses in the country.

No IT handholding. No six-figure infrastructure overhaul. Just a smarter way to keep a team connected.

Watch the full Q&A here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht0TzYOCImk

06/11/2026

What does safety look like?

It's a worker understanding a critical instruction in their native language.
It's an emergency alert reaching every worker instantly.
It's a hazard being reported the moment it's discovered.
It's help arriving when someone presses SOS.

Safety isn't always visible.
It's found in the moments that prevent incidents before they happen.

This , we're recognizing the people, actions, and conversations that help keep workers safe every day.

Because safety starts long before an emergency.
It starts with a worker being heard, understood, and able to get help when they need it.

06/02/2026

Most job site data never makes it into your systems.

Not because it doesn't exist, but because submitting it is too cumbersome for a worker standing on a site. Daily reports, safety observations, punch list items, inspection checklists — all of it gets written on paper, remembered wrong, or never submitted.

Walt Forms fixes that. Watch how it works:

05/12/2026

“The faster you can get the facts and understand what’s going on, the faster you can make a decision to get equipment back up and running. So it really helps that after-hours troubleshooting, reducing downtime.”

Mark Sheard, Director of Engineering, Stella & Chewy’s

05/08/2026

Most manufacturers have invested millions in digital transformation and are still missing their largest real-time intelligence source: the frontline worker.

Our founder Kevin Turpin shared his thoughts!

Plants are still overlooking their largest real-time intelligence source: Workers who generate a continuous stream of observational data that no sensor can replicate.

05/06/2026

Two-way radios were designed for a single crew on a single channel. They work fine for that.

A hyperscale data center campus is not that. It's 60 specialty subs, three shifts, and a workforce that speaks a dozen languages — all running on a site the size of a small city.

What GCs on these sites are deploying instead:

One platform for everyone on the jobsite — GC crew and every sub — with full flexibility for who can reach who. A schedule change reaches your crew and every sub simultaneously. A safety call goes out in English and every Spanish-speaking worker hears it in Spanish. Automatically.

Every transmission is captured, timestamped, and searchable. When an owner asks for the audit trail from last Tuesday's near-miss, it takes three minutes to pull.

Deployed same-day. No FCC license. No infrastructure changes. Most sites are live before the end of the day devices arrive.

That's Walt.

04/14/2026

Nextel nearly set the standard for job site communication.

When it vanished, construction never got a true replacement. Most sites adapted with consumer phones, conventional radios, and apps that were never designed for the complexity of modern field operations.

But the communication challenge didn’t get simpler. It got harder.

Large sites, multiple trades, multilingual crews, tighter schedules, and higher safety expectations have changed what construction teams need from their communication tools.

Our latest blog breaks down what replaced Nextel on construction sites, why those tools fell short, and what modern crews need instead.

Check it out!

Nextel defined job site communication for nearly a decade. Here's what happened when it shut down — and why Walt is the best radio for construction sites today.