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Monday, December 31, 2012

NNSA DC Overflights

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News reports are circulating that the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is doing radiation monitoring flights around the Washi...
Monday, December 24, 2012

Merry Christmas From The Fed Files!

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Merry Christmas to all the Fed Files and Monitoring Times fans out there!
Friday, December 21, 2012

406.9125 P25 Mystery in TN

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A poster on Radio Reference has linked to a video showing a trunking control channel that was being received in the Springfield, TN area (no...
Monday, December 03, 2012

FPS Updates

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A couple of updates on the Federal Protective Service, part of the Department of Homeland Security. The FPS had been active on 417.2000 MH...
Sunday, November 18, 2012

Atlantic City NJ - Sandy Recovery

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I just spent some time in the Atlantic City, NJ area after Hurricane Sandy went through a couple of weeks ago. I was able to spot some debri...
Friday, November 09, 2012

UHF Changes in Oak Ridge?

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A recent posting in the Radio Reference forums has some information on what appears to the an additional P25 UHF trunked site from the Natio...

UHF Changes in Pittsburgh?

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I recently spotted an entry to the Radio Reference database showing a "new" federal UHF trunked system. You can check out the ent...
Saturday, November 03, 2012

Sandy Recovery NYC Area

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I have been in the Brooklyn/Staten Island area for the last few days have have been monitoring some of the federal recovery efforts. Federal...
Monday, October 15, 2012

167.2500 At LAX

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I was near the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) for a few days this past week, and was hearing someone using 167.2500 MHz, 100.0 PL ...
Monday, October 08, 2012

Post IWN, Justice Moves On

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Here is an article about what the Justice Department intends to with updating their communications systems, now that they have cancelled the...
Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Denver Presidential Debates

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The first of a series of debates between the presidential candidates is tonight in the Denver, Colorado area. An anonymous source sent me an...
Tuesday, October 02, 2012

LightSquared Continues Spectrum Quest

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The broadband company that was thwarted by the FCC in its efforts to utilize spectrum near the GPS frequency band is now requesting permissi...
Saturday, September 29, 2012

More Mexican Cartel Radio Towers Dismantled

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An AP story on the discovery of more drug cartel radio towers in Mexico: http://www.toledonewsnow.com/story/19671161/mexico-finds-ca...
Sunday, September 23, 2012

NYC Activity

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I'm in New York City and noted a marked increase in radio traffic on known Secret Service and Department of State Diplomatic Security ch...
Friday, September 21, 2012

Dallas Area DEA

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As reported previously, there are a number of VHF frequencies in use around the Dallas/Ft. Worth area that are reported to be used by the DE...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

Portland TSA Off of IWN?

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A while back I discovered that the TSA at Portland International Airport (KPDX) seemed to have moved their primary radio operations to 4 tal...

USCG Astoria Using UHF

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I recently caught one of the US Coast Guard helicopters out of Astoria, Oregon using 412.9750 MHz, N293 for position and ops normal traffic...
Tuesday, September 04, 2012

DNC Convention Begins

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The Democratic National Convention begins today in Charlotte, NC. Some reports of convention related communications are filtering in. ...

Ryan Secret Service Code Name Revealed

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News outlets are now reporting the Secret Service code name for GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan. The code name for Ryan is reported as "...
Monday, September 03, 2012

New BoP Radio System - Atwater?

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I recently saw a note on Radio Reference about a new UHF federal trunked radio system being heard on the air in central California. Listener...