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Monday, January 31, 2011

TSA Halts Screening Partnership Program

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The TSA has decided to halt the expansion of the Screening Partnership Program, which allowed airports to choose private security screeners ...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

Super Bowl XLV Update

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Haven't had much time to update the blog, but things are starting to get busy here in Arlington. Some radio systems checks have been hea...
Sunday, January 09, 2011

US Forest Service Radio Purchase

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The US Department of Agriculture / US Forest Service has purchased a large number of P25 radios from RELM Wireless Corp: http://www.prnewswi...
Thursday, January 06, 2011

Super Bowl XLV

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Things are starting to ramp up for federal activity related to Super Bowl XLV in Arlington, Texas this February. There were rumors of the po...

DEA Updates

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Some additional information has surfaced about the new UHF federal frequencies used by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). As we have...

Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year from the Fed Files! Once again I was working at Times Square in New York City on New Years Eve helping broadcast the event. I...
Saturday, December 25, 2010

Merry Christmas!

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A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all the Fed Files and Monitoring Times readers out there!
Thursday, December 16, 2010

Another New DEA P-25 Frequency Found

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Listeners in the Houston, Texas region have reported finding another active P-25 frequency that is most likely a new DEA channel. 410.4125 M...
Friday, December 03, 2010

DC Area IWN Rollout Without DHS

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An interesting article has appeared on line talking about the roll out of the new IWN DC area overlay trunked system: http://psc.apcointl.or...
Wednesday, December 01, 2010

LA USSS Back On The Air

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On Monday, November 30th, while waiting for a flight at LAX airport, I had time for some scanning. While searching the federal bands I happe...
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...