Saturday, July 02, 2011

Royals Visiting California

Members of the British Royal Family will visiting the Southern California area this coming week, and it could make for some interesting monitoring.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will arrive in Los Angeles on July 8. Their schedule calls for several days of travel and appointments around LA and other cities;
http://www.kcoy.com/story/14924375/schedule-released-for-royal-visit-to-california

Both Secret Service and Department of State Bureau of Diplomatic Security have possible involvement in security operations for the Royal visit, but media reports have mentioned the DoS as being the agency for this trip.

If scanning the visit, be sure and keep an ear on local and CHP channels for activity, and search the UHF federal band (406-420 MHz) for State Department activity. And don't forget there will most likely be some British Royal security presence as well. The last time I ran into British VIP security in the US they were using some 160 MHz frequencies.

For a list of Secret Service channels, you can check my previous post,
http://mt-fedfiles.blogspot.com/2008/02/secret-service-frequency-list.html

Here is a quick list of possible Department of State Bureau of Diplomatic Security frequencies. They should be all P-25 digital and utilize a NAC of either N293 or N0F0. Be sure and let me know what you hear active:

406.3750

407.2000

407.5000

407.6000

407.8625

408.1000

408.4000

408.6000

409.1500

409.5250

409.6000

409.6250

409.7000

411.0750

411.1500

411.4250

412.0000

412.2875

415.9000

416.2000

416.2250

417.6000

417.8500

418.0500

418.0750

418.4500

418.5250

418.5750

419.3000

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