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Thursday, January 01, 2009

2009 Presidential Inauguration

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The Presidential Inauguration is fast approaching, planned for Tuesday, January 20th. Unfortunately I will not be in Washington DC for the e...

Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year to everyone! I got to spend my New Years Eve freezing my rear end in Times Square. I was working as part of the NBC coverage ...
Saturday, December 27, 2008

Blue Ridge Parkway-Updated!

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Listeners along the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia and North Carolina have started to report that the US Park Police that patrol the BRP h...
Thursday, December 25, 2008

Merry Christmas!

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A very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all the Monitoring Times and Fed Files readers out there. Holiday travel has been a challenge...
Sunday, December 14, 2008

New GAO Report on IWN

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The latest GOA report on the current progress of the federal Integrated Wireless Network (IWN) has been released, and you can find a copy h...
Saturday, December 06, 2008

Arizona Scanning

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I was in the Phoenix & Tucson areas after Thanksgiving, so I had some time to scan the bands for activity... 162.0625 MHz, N001 - CBP Bo...
Saturday, November 29, 2008

White House Operations?

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I caught an interesting program on the History Channel the other night. It was sort of a companion program to the inside look at Air Force O...

Happy Thanksgiving Weekend

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Happy Thanksgiving weekend to all the Fed Files fans out there. This holiday weekend finds me working in Ontario, CA. I haven't had a lo...
Friday, November 14, 2008

Nashville Now

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Caught some interesting traffic from the Federal Reserve Branch Bank in Nashville last night. I don't know if anything made the news wir...

New In New York

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I just spent a few days in Mid-Town Manhattan and was able to confirm some P-25 NAC info, and had a few new things pop up. 167.7875, P-25 NA...
Saturday, November 08, 2008

More Fed Files Posts Coming!

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Sorry for not much new on the Fed Files blog lately. Unfortunately, my primary job has been keeping me so busy, I haven't had much time ...
Saturday, September 20, 2008

IWN Moving Ahead in Arizona?

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Reports are beginning to surface of strange digital signals starting to appear on federal VHF frequencies in the Phoenix / Tucson areas of A...
Monday, September 15, 2008

Campaign '08 Secret Service Call Signs

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It is post convention campaign time and the candidates are traveling across the country for more and more events. Here is an update on the c...
Saturday, September 13, 2008

Hurricane Ike Recovery

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I have been monitoring the situation in southeast Texas and hurricane (now tropical storm) Ike. In addition to the news networks and the Wea...

TSA Trying "Calmer" Radios

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The TSA is apparently moving towards the use of speaker mics and earpieces with their radios at airport checkpoints. The move is intended to...
Monday, September 01, 2008

RNC Opening Day

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Just a quick update from St. Paul and the Republican National Convention. As has been reported by the news media, President Bush and VP Chen...
Friday, August 29, 2008

RNC Build Up

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Now that the dust has settled in Denver, the focus shifts towards the eastern half of the Twin Cites, St. Paul, Minnesota. The radio spectru...
Sunday, August 24, 2008

Denver DNC Ramps Up

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The radio spectrum in the Denver area is becoming increasingly filled with communications related to the Democratic National Convention, whi...

Tom Kneitel, 1933-2008

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I received word this morning that Tom Kneitel, author of many scanning and monitoring related books and writer for Popular Communications ma...
Saturday, August 23, 2008

Denver MACC Opens For DNC

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The Multi Agency Communication Center for the Democratic National Convention has begun operations in Lakewood, CO this morning. The MACC is ...