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Saturday, May 24, 2008

St. Paul MN Scanning Update

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I was recently in St. Paul, Minnesota for some preliminary meetings regarding broadcast coverage of the Republican National Convention in Se...

McCain Campaign Update

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As I posted a couple of weeks ago, Sen. John McCain has recently been confirmed as having Secret Service protection as he campaigns across t...

When Federal Frequencies Get Hijacked?

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I was recently working near the location of a Championship Off Road Racing event in Nevada. I discovered that someone at this event was usin...
Monday, May 12, 2008

McCain Now With USSS

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I was able to confirm today that Sen. John McCain is now accompanied by a security detail from the US Secret Service. There had been some sp...
Thursday, May 01, 2008

Anyone Listening to 165.4250 MHz?

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OK Fed Files fans, it's time to help track down a mystery frequency! If anyone has one of the presidential candidates coming for a visit...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Border "Virtual" Fence Scrapped

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It appears that the virtual fence built by Boeing is not performing as expected. Details here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352213,00...
Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Pittsburgh - New FBI P25

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Despite it's slow start in moving towards APCO P-25 digital radio systems, the FBI is starting to make the switch in different regions o...
Saturday, April 05, 2008

Political Campaign Acitvity - McCain to get Secret Service Detail

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News media outlets are reporting that Senator John McCain will discuss Secret Service protection with DHS officials next week. For some time...
Thursday, March 27, 2008

Presidential Campaign Activities

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Is it just me, or does it seem like this presidential political campaign has been going on forever? Back in June of 07 (!) I mentioned that ...
Saturday, March 15, 2008

Las Vegas NNSA Update

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It would appear that the UHF federal trunked systems in the Las Vegas area have gone through some channel changes prior to the narrow bandin...
Sunday, March 09, 2008

US Geological Survey

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After seeing some requests for frequencies for the US Geological Survey, I decided to post all that I had in my database. These were compile...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

NOAA WP-3D in Portland

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While waiting at Portland International Airport (KPDX) for a commercial flight, I spotted a NOAA WP-3D aircraft taxing out for takeoff. The ...
Wednesday, February 20, 2008

March Fed Files Correction

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Before I get too many more emails, I want to post a correction of something that was in the March 2008 Fed Files column regarding the federa...
Friday, February 08, 2008

Secret Service Frequency List

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I've started to have some requests for Secret Service frequencies during the height of the '08 political campaign season. Here is wh...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Phoenix Fedcom

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Well, it's Super Saturday and I finally have a minute to post a quick note. I had meant to post some federal communications updates rela...
Friday, January 25, 2008

South Carolina Campaigns

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I've seen some reports of Secret Service operations on 165.7875 MHz , USSS BAKER in South Carolina in regards to the political campaign...
Tuesday, January 22, 2008

DHS NRF Resource Center

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The DHS National Response Framework presents the guiding principles that enable all response partners to prepare for and provide a unified n...
Monday, January 21, 2008

New York Area Fedcom

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Just a couple of quick notes from my last trip to the NYC area... Once again, I was in town for the weekly Federal Interoperability radio ch...

Super Bowl XLII Federal Monitoring

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I'm headed to Phoenix this week to start work as part of the international coverage of Super Bowl XLII. Technically we will be in Glenda...
Monday, January 14, 2008

More Campaign Communications

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Some additional information on the political campaigns communications has started to surface. A post on the FEDCOM list indicated that at le...