Saturday, June 17, 2006

Memphis Federal Logs

Here's what I've logged after a couple days of searching:

163.4625 TN ANG BASE AT MEMPHIS INT'L
163.4875 100.0 UNKNOWN - STRONG SIGNAL DOWNTOWN
164.2000 ? MAY BE PAGING?
164.5625 UNKNOWN
165.7250 P-25 POSSIBLE INPUT TO 170.7500
168.0000 103.5 REPEATER
170.7500 P-25 US MARSHALS - COURTHOUSE SECURITY

173.1000 167.9 FBI REPEATER - CLEAR
406.0000 REPORTED AS SYSTEM 9106
406.1500 D073 VAMC - SECURITY REPEATER
407.1375 P-25 ENC
407.5250 REPORTED AS SYSTEM 9106
407.7500 ?
407.7750 P-25 ENC
407.9250 REPORTED AS SYSTEM 9106
408.2375 ?
408.2500 P-25 BOP TRS 9106
409.0125 P-25
409.0250 ?
409.2125 MOTO CC - SYSTEM 9106
409.4125 MOTO CC - SYSTEM 9105
410.4000 P-25 BOP TRS 9106
410.8125 P-25
411.1250 REPORTED AS SYSTEM 9106
415.1500 D073 VAMC - 406.1500 REPEATER INPUT
416.1375 P-25 POSSIBLE INPUT TO 407.1375

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Memphis Fed Scanning




I'm based in Memphis, TN for a few days of work and have started my usual searches of the VHF and UHF federal bands.

To start with I'm trying to figure out the Bureau of Prisons UHF system here. Radio Reference lists a UHF trunked system for the Memphis Federal Correctional Institution, a Motorola 3600 baud system with a SYS ID of 9106. Here are the frequencies:
406.0000
407.5250
407.9250
408.2500
409.2125 - Control Channel
410.4000
411.1250

However, I'm picking up an addional control channel showing a SYS ID of 9105 on 409.4125 MHz. Anyone have any info on this system?

Justice IWN Update







The July issue of Monitoring Times and Fed Files will feature some information on the Justice Integrated Wireless Network Project. This week the Justice Department Joint Project Office has named two winners of the contract for the IWN systems:
http://www.fcw.com/article94863-06-12-06-Print

The JIWN Home Page hasn’t yet been updated as of this blog, but hopefully it will be soon: http://www.usdoj.gov/jmd/iwn/overview.html
I’ve also received word that the Oregon state budget has received some funds from the JIWN project to upgrade Oregon state repeater sites for co-location of JIWN equipment. So it appears that the Washington State Pilot Project will eventually be extended south through Oregon.