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Sunday, November 01, 2009

World Series Game 3

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I was working in Philadelphia for game 3 of the World Series baseball game between the Phillies and the Yankees on October 31st. I was prett...
Friday, October 30, 2009

FPS moving from ICE to NPPD

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As was rumored to be the case, DHS announced today that the Federal Protective Service (FPS) will be moved from Immigration & Customs En...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

SoCal UHF

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I've been down in the Orange County, California area the last week and have come across some active channels that remain a mystery. 408....
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Interoperability Channel Names

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APCO International has released a draft copy of it's "Proposed Standard Channel Nomenclature for the Public Safety Interoperability...
Wednesday, October 07, 2009

USCG San Francisco - Update

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While passing through SFO (San Francisco International Airport) recently, I had some time to search the federal bands. I came across Coast G...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

FPS Operation Shield

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I heard some Federal Protective Service units on roll call this morning report that they were participating in "Operation Shield" ...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Pittsburgh G20 MACC Operational

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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette featured a story on the start up of the G20 Multi-Agency Command Center in Pittsburgh: http://www.post-gazette.c...
Monday, September 21, 2009

409.4 MHz - Las Vegas

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A while back, a poster on Radio Reference asked about who might be using 409.4000 MHz , P-25 in the Las Vegas area. Several suggestions were...
Friday, August 28, 2009

FAA Porcupine

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While running between terminals at San Francisco International Airport (KSFO), I spotted a van literally covered with antennas. The van carr...
Monday, August 24, 2009

TSA Encryption

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I've started noticing some changes in the TSA communications in my area and wondering if the same is happening in other areas as well. U...

Another Federal Mototrbo User

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On a recent trip to the Chicago area, I discovered that the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago is using Mototrbo radios on 406.6625 MHz . Motot...
Thursday, August 20, 2009

Pittsburgh G20 Summit - New Frequencies?

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With a little more than 5 weeks until the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh starting, I've started to receive reports of unusual activity across ...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

"Axe Men" Production - 168.050

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While searching the federal bands at home in northwest Oregon, I recently came across some unusual radio traffic on 168.0500 MHz . It sounde...
Saturday, August 08, 2009

Colville National Forest

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Although many of the US Forest Service web sites have had the frequency data for the radio systems scrubbed from the available documents, oc...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

MT Reader Survey 2009

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Please help us at Monitoring Times find out what you are interested in and what you want to see in future issues. When you have a moment, p...
Friday, July 10, 2009

Upcoming Events - NLE09

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FEMA's National Level Exercise 2009 (NLE09) is scheduled for July 27th through July 31st, 2009 ; http://www.fema.gov/media/fact_sheets/...
Wednesday, July 08, 2009

More on FPS

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And speaking of the Federal Protective Service; http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2009/07/gao_finds_major_security_flaws.html?hpi...
Tuesday, July 07, 2009

FPS Adding VHF?

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I have received reports from some areas that Federal Protective Service vehicles are beginning to sprout VHF hi-band antennas in addition to...
Thursday, July 02, 2009

New FAA Radio Update

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Back in November of 2006, I received frequency information from the new FAA land-mobile P-25 radio network, known as the FAA "C2" ...
Wednesday, July 01, 2009

USCG Sector Portand Update

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Since posting about the US Coast Guard utilizing more federal interoperability frequencies, I have run into some changes in my own listening...