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Monday, December 31, 2007

Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year to all the Fed Files fans and Monitoring Times readers. Looking forward to a great 2008!
Friday, December 28, 2007

More Federal Interop

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As has been posted in previous blog entries, the Justice Department's "25 Cities" project continues to set up federal interope...
Tuesday, December 25, 2007

January Fed Files Correction!

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I was just notified of an error in the January Fed Files column and wanted to pass along a correction. In the mention of John Wilson's V...
Monday, December 24, 2007

Merry Christmas From The Fed Files!

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Thursday, December 20, 2007

Houston Federal Interop Test

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Another testing of a federal interoperability system was noted by listeners in the Houston, Texas area last night. Radio checks from various...
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

South Florida UHF Mystery!

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With the mandated changes in the channelization of the federal UHF band that appear to be taking place before the years end, mysterious sign...
Monday, December 17, 2007

Another JENNA Sighting!

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While waiting for my flight to board at Burbank (KBUR) last week, I caught JENNA 49 coming in for a landing. I watched the runway expecting...
Saturday, December 08, 2007

Las Vegas UHF Mysteries

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Been working in the Las Vegas, NV region this week and have found a few UHF frequencies that I've had trouble pinning down who the users...
Thursday, December 06, 2007

Another VHF Trunking Mystery?

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A few months ago some reports from the east coast indicated that there was an EDACS trunking system operating in the VHF federal band somewh...

406.6625 / 415.6625 MHz Update

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A while back I asked folks about hearing activity on 406.6625 or 415.6625 MHz . I received several responses and it now appears that this f...
Monday, November 26, 2007

Federal UHF Band Changes

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Some recent changes and new frequencies for several UHF federal and military  systems have prompted me to remind everyone of the  upcoming d...
Thursday, November 22, 2007

FCI Morgantown WV Update

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I was able to update some information on the Morgantown, WV Federal Correctional Institution; Motorola Type II with P-25 voice System ID: a6...
Wednesday, November 07, 2007

NYC Interop Check-In Redux

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I found myself in New York City on a Wednesday morning and was able to monitor the FBI Control interoperability check-in on 167.7875 MHz , P...
Friday, October 26, 2007

BPA Update

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A few months ago, I posted that I thought I had heard someone on the BPA radio system identifying themselves as "DENVER", when in ...
Monday, October 22, 2007

Can Tiny Scanners Be In Our Future?

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After reading this item from the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7050477.stm I've got to believe a tiny receiver / scanne...

JIWN Site in WDC?

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I just noticed that the Radio Reference listing for the Justice Integrated Wireless Network (JIWN) now shows a site in Washington, DC.; http...
Sunday, October 21, 2007

415.6625 MHz Near You?

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I'm curious if anyone had started picking up transmissions on 415.6625 MHz or 406.6625 MHz ? I have confirmed these frequencies are bein...

TOPOFF 4 Radio Usage

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Since the TOPOFF 4 exercise is now finished, at least on the public side, I thought I would share what I found as far as radio communication...
Thursday, October 18, 2007

TOPOFF 4 Exercise Unfolds

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I had a chance to do some monitoring and observations of the TOPOFF 4 exercise in the Portland, Oregon area this week and thought I would po...
Thursday, October 11, 2007

Oregon / Washington Army CoE

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Thursday morning at home and just heard some radio checks on 163.4375 MHz, 100.0pl. One station requested a check on RANIER, which came in 5...