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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

NIFOG Version 1.4 Now Available

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The latest version of the National Interoperability Field Operations Guide (NIFOG) is now available from the Department of Homeland Security...
Monday, February 14, 2011

More New DEA UHF P-25

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More new Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) P-25 channels are being reported active along the Gulf Coast area. Most of the new channels a...
Sunday, February 13, 2011

Inside the Secret Service

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An interesting article in The Atlantic Magazine about the US Secret Service. Several communications issues discussed, so it's well worth...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

163.2125 MHz

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While up on Rocky Butte in Portland, Oregon on Friday, I picked up 163.2125 MHz, N100 conventional P-25 traffic. All encrypted so I don...
Friday, February 11, 2011

CBP Provides Air Support over Super Bowl XLV

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Nice video presentation highlighting the CBP Office of Air and Marine participation in covering Super Bowl XLV in Arlington, Texas last week...
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...