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Saturday, September 14, 2013

Armed Federal Agencies

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With all the controversy surrounding the EPA and their use of armed agents in Alaska recently, I saw  this story about all the federal agenc...
Friday, September 13, 2013

DoE Seeking New Radio System

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The Department of Energy is seeking vendors for replacement of their current Motorola trunked radio system at their Oak Ridge, Tennessee fac...

DHS OIG Report on Communications Management

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The Department of Homeland Security continues to have difficulties in managing their communications resources, says a new report out from th...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

The Fed Files on Twitter

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Preparing for life after Monitoring Times, I have established a Twitter account for posting breaking news and updates on the federal frequen...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

CBP Changes in Houston Area

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I'm seeing reports of major changes in the Customs & Border Protection (CBP) repeaters in the Houston, Texas area. It appears that t...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

NFM in the UHF Miltiary Air Band?

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Recently I have received reports of uses of narrow-band FM for voice traffic on various frequencies in the 225-380 MHz military air band. Mo...
Friday, August 16, 2013

NTIA Plans Spectrum Monitoring

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The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) plans a remote, real-time, spectrum monitoring project. You can read s...
Saturday, August 10, 2013

170.7875 MHz in Boston

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Reports of a new frequency being tested by "radio services" were received from sources in the Boston area. The frequency heard was...
Thursday, August 08, 2013

Bob Grove Interview About Monitoring Times

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For those interested, here is an interview with Monitoring Times founder and owner, Bob Grove, regarding the fate of the magazine and his up...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

USDA Intercept Concerns

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The September edition of the Fed Files column is on voice encryption and security in federal radios. During research, I found this page, fro...
Friday, July 26, 2013

New DEA Frequencies in GA

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I have seen reports of activity on some of the new P25 DEA frequencies in west-central Georgia. 406.9750 MHz, N156 was heard used as a repe...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

Monitoring Times Magazine to Cease Publication

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The following is a statement from MT Publisher, Bob Grove W8JHD:        After 33 years of publishing the most informative and lauded magaz...
Monday, July 22, 2013

USMS Lost Radios

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I have written in the Fed Files column about how the TSA has lost radios in the past, and the stray equipment has show up on eBay. Now if ap...
Tuesday, July 09, 2013

New VHF Frequencies - Houston

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Some new VHF channels were noted in the Houston, TX area recently: 163.8125 MHz,  N864 173.7125 MHz,  N293 There was some speculation th...

New DoD UHF Trunked System in Portland, OR

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Although this is usually Larry Van Horn's domain, since it's in my backyard, I thought I would post about it! A new P-25 trunked s...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

USCG on 167.6250 MHz?

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A listener in Michigan is reporting he got a Close Call hit and heard P25 Coast Guard communications on 167.6250 MHz, N293 .  Here is the Ra...
Thursday, June 13, 2013

FBI Frequency Updates Added

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At the suggestion of a blog fan, I have started to add FBI frequency updates to the various agency pages at the top of the Fed Files blog. S...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

New DEA UHF - UPDATE!

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I recently received some information on another new UHF channel associated with the DEA transition to P-25. 412.5750 MHz, N156 has been h...
Sunday, May 12, 2013

New York City FIO2

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For a while now, I had confirmed that 171.1750 MHz, N653 was officially designated as NYC Federal Interop 2. However, I had never heard any...

Boston Area Mystery Aircraft

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Many media outlets are carrying stories about Boston area residents being disturbed by low-altitude, "mysterious" aircraft at all ...