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Thursday, September 06, 2007

FPS Chicago & Other Cities

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I have received word that the Federal Protective Service (FPS), a division of the Department of Homeland Security under Immigrations & C...
Tuesday, August 28, 2007

JENA Aircraft in Tampa FL

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While listening to Tampa International (KTPA) approach on 08/28, I caught one of the controllers talking to JENA 32. At one point the contro...
Wednesday, August 22, 2007

"VIPR" Airport Security Program

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Local media is reporting an increase of federal law enforcement presence at the Portland International Airport ( PDX ) as part of a TSA pro...
Sunday, August 19, 2007

VHF EDACS Mystery Solved!?

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It appears that our mystery VHF EDACS trunked radio system mentioned in a previous blog entry has been located. Someone tracked down the con...
Wednesday, August 08, 2007

VHF Trunking Mysteries

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There are a couple of mysterious trunking control channels that have been reported in the VHF federal bands and so far we have no solid info...

New CBP A&M Units?

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I've been receiving information that there is a new call sign being heard on some of the Customs & Border Protection radio nets in t...

DoE / BPA Activity

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The Bonneville Power Administration, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, is an agency under the U.S. Department of Energy. They operate a ser...
Monday, July 16, 2007

170.7250 MHz - Harrisburg, PA?

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I was recently forced by an airline flight cancellation to drive from Pittsburgh to Atlantic City, NJ for work. While driving across on I-76...

"VOLCANO - Out"

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With the passing of Lady Bird Johnson this past week, I was reminded of many trips through the Austin, Texas area in years past. Often I cou...
Saturday, July 07, 2007

164.9625 MHz Anyone?

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I am curious if anyone is hearing any law enforcement activity on 164.9625 MHz in your area. This frequency has been a long used Customs ta...

Federal Interop "25 Cities" Frequencies

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In the January 2007 Fed Files, I mentioned the Justice Department's "25 Cities Project". Basically the program focuses on 25 m...
Thursday, June 28, 2007

Postal Inspectors Update

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I recently had a nice email from a Fed Files reader who was interested in finding the US Postal Inspectors active frequencies. As we have n...
Monday, June 18, 2007

Coast Guard New Haven

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I was recently in the New London/Groton Connecticut area and was monitoring a lot of Coast Guard Station New Haven activity. The area of re...

Secret Service Call Signs

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With all the candidates running for President in 2008, the Secret Service will have to come up with new radio call signs for each protectee....
Saturday, June 09, 2007

AMTRAK Police Operations

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I'm currently working on a show in New York City that has us parked near Penn Station in mid-town Manahattan , and there are usually 3-6...
Wednesday, June 06, 2007

NYC FBI Interop Check-In

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I finally had a chance to catch the weekly (I think) test of the Federal Interoperability repeater in the New York City area. The test start...
Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Washington DC Trip

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I just spent a few days working in the Washington DC area. Too much to listen to there!!! Besides all the new trunked systems and military s...

2007 National Hurrican Operations Plan

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From the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology: http://www.ofcm.gov/nhop/07/pdf/entire-nhop07.pdf Interesting document with seve...
Saturday, May 19, 2007

415.2 Oddity In Memphis

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Some strange happenings have been observed in the Memphis, Tennessee over the last couple of days. When I got in to town on Wednesday evenin...
Friday, May 18, 2007

New BoP System Info

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In the quest to document and build a database of Bureau of Prisons radio systems, there have been some BoP facilites that we just don't ...