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Saturday, November 27, 2010

New Border Patrol in Arizona

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In the November issue of Monitoring Times , I mentioned a number of VHF P-25 repeaters that had been heard on the air in Southern Arizona ov...
Thursday, November 18, 2010

FPS Chnges & Updates Continue

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UPDATE - Reports from the Northeast US are that many cites in FPS Region 1 (New England) have switched over to 408.2000 MHz repeaters from ...

Quick Scan at IAD-Update

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Had some time between slights at Dulles International Airport on Wednesday and did a little searching while there. I managed to pick up seve...
Monday, November 08, 2010

414.5625 MHz

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Over a year ago, while in the Houston, Texas area, I stumbled across some encrypted P-25 traffic on 414.5625 MHz, NAC 168 . The traffic was ...
Saturday, October 30, 2010

World Series Game 2

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Things settled down a bit in our part of the broadcasting compound for the second game of the 2010 World Series. so I had some time to liste...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

SF World Series Game One

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I'm in San Francisco for the 2010 World Series. We did game 1 on Wednesday night and only had a short time to listen to the scanner, but...
Sunday, October 24, 2010

New TSA P-25 Frequency at BOS

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I know the blog postings seem to be stuck in TSA mode these days, but I post 'em as they come in to me... I've received confirmation...
Friday, October 22, 2010

More TSA Radio News

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Here are a couple of news items regarding TSA and their radio communications. This item has some details about the purchase of the Icom F-...
Tuesday, October 05, 2010

More "New" TSA Analog Frequencies

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Since the addition of the Icom F-50V radios to the TSA security checkpoints at US airports, some new frequencies have started showing up. Th...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

170.3375 MHz in Dallas - TSA?

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I have received some reports of a new P-25 digital channel being heard in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex. Reports are that 170.3375 MHz, NAC...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

New Federal VHF Trunking - Update

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I recently posted that listeners were reporting many new VHF P-25 trunking sites starting to go live in the northern Virginia and Washington...
Saturday, September 25, 2010

VHF Trunking in Northern Virginia?

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I just spotted a post over on Radio Reference that someone is hearing "P25 control channels" on multiple VHF federal frequencies. ...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Gifford-Pinchot National Forest

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I recently spent some time near the Gifford-Pinchot NF Headquarters in Vancouver, WA. Us locals have been trying to piece together some of t...
Monday, September 13, 2010

408.1875 MHz in Las Vegas?

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On my last couple of trips to the Las Vegas area have found 408.1875 MHz keyed up continuously with no voice. The P-25 channel is showing a ...

NGC 'Border Wars'

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For those who have not seen it yet, I can highly recommend the National Geographic Channel's "Border Wars", airing on Wednesda...
Thursday, September 02, 2010

DHS CBP Officers to Operate in France

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I have previously asked about US CBP officers operating in Canadian pre-clearance areas, but now it appears they are being sent to France to...

NASA GRIP Experiment

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The Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) experiment is being conducted by NASA using various aircraft and flying missions surr...
Monday, August 23, 2010

ARINC delivers new Huey II helicopters for CBP

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According to this article, DHS CBP has taken delivery of 3 new helicopters for its Office of Air & Marine: http://www.gsnmagazine.com/no...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

CBP Customs in Canada

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I just returned from a quick trip to Montreal and passed through the US Customs Pre-Clearance at Toronto's Pearson Airport (YYZ). I spot...

POTUS Visit to Seattle

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I was unable to make the trip up to Seattle to monitor the arrival of President Obama on Tuesday, but I did get some reports from folks on t...