Ft. Lauderdale Frederal Frequencies

As I was in the Miami area for over two weeks for the Super Bowl, I spent a fair amount of my down time at my hotel, which was located in Fort Lauderdale. Even though I didn’t think I would catch much Super Bowl related communications from there, I figured it would give me a chance to check out routine federal activity in the Broward County area.

I set up a couple of antennas on my hotel room balcony. Many people who spotted my antenna setup on my Twitter posts wondered what kind of antennas they were and how they worked. I ended up doing a lot of Coast Guard and marine traffic monitoring as I had a front row seat at the entrance to Port Everglades.

Here are the active frequencies I logged from my hotel room monitoring setup:

162.6250         N303               CBP Miami Area

163.0500         N293               US Coast Guard NET 112

163.8375         N167               FBI

165.3125         N293               US Coast Guard NET 121

165.7875         N001               US Secret Service BRAVO

165.9250        

167.3375         N167               FBI

167.5375         N167               FBI

167.6125         N293               US Marshals Service

167.6625         N167               FBI

167.7625         N167               FBI

167.8625         CSQ                VAMC Paging

168.0000         100.0 pl          

168.4625         N68F               Federal Interoperability LE-5

169.2625         N293               CBP OAM AIR-3

169.2625         N61A

170.1625         N375               ICE

170.2375         156.7 pl          

170.3750         N200               ICE

170.6000         N301               CBP

170.7375         N200               ICE

171.1875         N303               CBP Miami Area

171.3250         N296               CBP

171.3875         N300               ICE

171.6875         N167               FBI Miami Area

171.7625         N303               CBP

171.9875         N167               FBI OPS 2

172.1875         N167               FBI OPS 4

172.2875         N167               FBI OPS 3

172.4125         N303               CBP

172.7125         N283               CBP Port Everglades

172.9000         N013               TSA @ FLL airport

172.9000         N019               TSA @ MIA airport

173.0750         CSQ                LOJACK data bursts

173.3625        

173.6500         N156               DEA

173.7250         N650               BATFE

173.8000         N286               CBP

173.8750         N1D3              EPA or possibly US Capitol Police?

406.2000         N201               FPS

406.3500        

407.1375         N482               US Postal Inspection Service

407.9500

408.0000         N3C0              VAMC trunked system Miami

408.7500

408.7625

409.5250         N293               US Department of State (DoS)

409.6000

410.0750         CSQ                FAA Data

410.1000

410.7625         N254               ? RADIO ID 56693, TG 52976

410.8000         N201               FPS

410.9500

412.6750

412.7250

413.0250         N293               USCG NET 411

413.4750        

418.6750         156.7 pl           DEA

418.7000

418.7500         156.7 pl           DEA

419.0250        

419.5250         156.7 pl           DEA

419.8000