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Saturday, December 24, 2011

Merry Christmas from The Fed Files

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Thanks for all the great emails and reports from the loyal readers out there. Looking forward to more new and interesting federal interce...

Fed Files - January 2012 NYC Logs

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In the January 2012 Fed Files column, I published a list of frequencies I logged during a recent trip to New York City for work. I inc...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

USCG NET 411 Confirmed

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Back in April of 2010 I asked for some help in confirming some of the new UHF Coast Guard activity that has been monitored recently. There w...
Friday, November 18, 2011

Cain Gets SS Protection

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News reports are indicating that Herman Cain, GOP candidate for President, has started receiving protection from the US Secret Service. ...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Denver / Laramie Area Federal Logs

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I recently traveled to Denver and drove up to the Laramie, WY area for work. While driving I was able to log some federal activity. 163.62...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Federal Spectrum Under Scrutiny

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http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/125416 Over 1500 MHz worth of frequency spectrum assigned to the federal government is being considere...
Friday, October 14, 2011

Atlantic City, NJ

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During a recent trip through the Atlantic City, NJ area, I came across a few new federal frequencies: 163.1000, N167 - FBI, might be regi...

Another POTUS Bus Tour

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President Obama starts another bus tour of North Carolina and Virginia, beginning next Monday in Asheville, North Carolina; http://www.cit...
Sunday, September 25, 2011

Atlanta P-25 UHF System

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Over a month ago I was working north of Atlanta and found what appeared to be a multi-site, P-25 trunked system in the federal 406-420 MHz U...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Operation Mountain Guardian 9/23/11

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http://www.douglas.co.us/Operation_Mountain_Guardian_Emergency_Exercise.html Operation Mountain Guardian is a terrorism-based emergency re...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

CBP Aquires New Blackhawks

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The Customs & Border Protection Office of Air & Marine (OAM) has acquired 4 new UH-60M helicopters that were modified by the US A...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Mexican Cartel Radio Network

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I have encountered news reports in the past that suggested some of the Mexican drug cartels were utilizing a wide-area, encrypted radio syst...
Saturday, September 10, 2011

9/11 Anniversary Alerts

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With the 9/11 10-Year Anniversary coming up tomorrow, many are speculating about the heightened security around the country, including feder...

New USCP Radio System

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The US Capitol Police are one of the federal agencies in the Washington, DC area that are still running analog radios. They have received so...
Saturday, August 13, 2011

Unknown P-25 UHF System

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I'm down in the Norcross, GA area with the PGA Championship Golf TV coverage this week, and started picking up a UHF trunked system I ha...
Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Border Activity

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In addition to DHS Border Patrol traffic, some listeners have reported activity that may be related to National Guard support of border enfo...

Upcoming POTUS Bus Tour

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An upcoming bus tour of the Midwest US has been announced by the White House. President Obama will embark on a three-day tour from August 15...
Sunday, July 31, 2011

Bureau of Prisons Changes

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I have been seeing reports of changes occurring in some of the US Bureau of Prisons (BoP) UHF radio systems in use at federal prison facilit...

DEA News

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A couple of items regarding the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). First, a reader sent me this link: http://www.ok.gov/okwin/documents/...
Friday, July 29, 2011

DMAFB Trunked System Update

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Just had a chance to monitor some changes at Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. They have had a UHF Motorola trunked system th...