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Monday, February 22, 2010

OOPS! Typo in March Fed Files

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Before I get a lot of emails, I wanted to correct a small typo in the March 2010 Fed Files column. In the column, I referred to the new 9 MH...
Saturday, February 20, 2010

Harris Wins Federal Contract for Multi-Band Radios

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http://www.rfcomm.harris.com/talkasone/ http://www.rfcomm.harris.com/talkasone/pdf/Unity_XG-100_Prod_Guide.pdf Radios Will Be Provided to De...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

More Cities with New TSA Radios

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Just passing through another set of airports this week and found the TSA at my home airport of Portland International (KPDX) is now starting...
Wednesday, February 03, 2010

DoS UHF Changes As Well

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Besides the changes going on with the DEA UHF channels, there seem to be some changes afoot with the Department of State Bureau of Diplomati...

DEA Changes In The Works?

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Recently there have been some possible changes to the DEA's UHF channel plan. It's been long expected as the DEA original frequencie...
Friday, January 29, 2010

Super Bowl XLIV

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Well, it's Super Bowl time in Miami again. Operations have been underway for this National Security Special Event for some time, with al...
Thursday, January 28, 2010

TSA Analog Radio Update

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I have been through a few more airports recently and have not found the new Icom radios in use at very many yet. No analog activity at Houst...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

More Coast Guard UHF Activity!

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More reports have come in regarding the Coast Guard's Short Range Communications Upgrade System or SRCU . P-25 digital communications h...
Sunday, January 10, 2010

NOAA VHF Trunking

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So far, P-25 trunking in the federal VHF band is pretty rare. But in 2008 I stumbled on this Request for Information from the NTIA and NOAA....
Wednesday, January 06, 2010

New TSA Radios Are Analog! UPDATED!

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In late 2008 there were news reports of the Transportation Security Administration requesting funding for newer, smaller radios that were su...
Monday, January 04, 2010

More TRBO On Federal Frequncies

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On a recent trip out of Seattle, I started picking up what sounded like MotoTRBO digital signals on 407.9375 MHz somewhere south of town. I...

Washington DC Pit Stop

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Just passed through Washington DC after New Years and had a couple of things to post about... First, things were fairly quiet while I was th...
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...