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Saturday, January 02, 2010

New Years Eve in NYC

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Here is a quick After Action Report from Times Square this past Thursday evening. Obviously security concerns were at a peak after the attem...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

Patrolling the US Border via Webcam

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I found an interesting story about folks being able to watch US border web cams and report suspected illegal crossings from home: http://new...
Friday, December 25, 2009

Happy Holidays 2009

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Happy Holidays to all from The Fed Files and Monitoring Times!
Thursday, December 17, 2009

More on Coast Guard UHF Usage & SRCUS

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Following up on the reports of Coast Guard operations on 413.0000 MHz , I have received some information regarding acquisition of UHF tactic...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Coast Guard P-25 UHF Nets

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I received a report from the Southeast US that the Coast Guard has started utilizing some frequencies in the 406-420 MHz band for its operat...
Monday, December 14, 2009

New Federal Prison

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As had been rumored for a while, the federal government will acquire a state-built prison facility in Thomson, Illinois to house terrorist p...
Saturday, December 12, 2009

South Florida New TRS?

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A source has reported a new trunking control channel in the Miami/Dade County area of South Florida. Here is what has been spotted: Motorola...
Monday, December 07, 2009

Houston BoP Updated!

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I have received some information from the Houston, Texas area that seems to indicate a new UHF trunked system has shown up and is apparently...
Wednesday, December 02, 2009

BoP Update

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I recently received some information on a Bureau of Prisons trunked system at the Federal Correctional Institution in Loretto, Pennsylvania....
Tuesday, December 01, 2009

UPDATE - 169.6 MHz NYC

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A couple of weeks ago, some listeners in the New York City area reported some clear, P-25 traffic on this previously un-heard frequency. Rep...

UPDATE - 409.4 MHz is Las Vegas FPS

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Back in mid-September I reported on some activity on 409.4000 MHz, NAC 940 in the Las Vegas, NV area. Listeners had reported sporadic, clea...
Thursday, November 12, 2009

166.4625 MHz Las Vegas TSA?

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I've been hearing numerous transmissions in the area of McCarren Airport in Las Vegas on 166.4625 MHz , P-25 with a NAC of 001 . It appe...

169.6000 MHz NYC

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I've received some reports of a mystery P-25 frequency active in the New York City area. 169.6000 MHz, NAC 169 was first reported as be...
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...