Super Bowl LV in Tampa

Just a quick note that Super Bowl LV is near at hand and I am in the middle of the broadcasting of the big game. It's going to be a little different this year with very limited crowds and social distancing within our work areas at the stadium.

We've already had the usual parade of DHS helicopters orbiting the stadium each day, as well as the Department of Energy survey helicopter looking at background radiation levels.

I will have more of what I saw and heard in March edition of The Spectrum Monitor magazine!

 

 

 

Department of the Interior Radio Systems

 

Here is a recent article addressing the woes of the Department of the Interior and their various radio systems for the various agencies within the DoI;

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/536947-the-dangers-of-the-department-of-interiors-radio-system#.YBuBSzn8g1w.twitter

The article mentions an audit by the Office of the Inspector General of the DoI from 2007:

https://www.doioig.gov/sites/doioig.gov/files/2007-G-00042.pdf

And the subsequent verification review in 2017:

https://www.doioig.gov/sites/doioig.gov/files/RadioCommunicationsProgramVerificationReviewPublic.pdf  

And an example of the difficulties of some of the users of the DoI radio systems:

http://aparkrangerslife.blogspot.com/2010/08/radio-communications-park-rangers-life.html