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Friday, September 05, 2014

CBP Florida Makes The P25 Switch

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Over the last couple of years I have heard that the CBP was coordinating and installing new P25 digital gear in the state of Florida. I ju...
Monday, July 21, 2014

Air Force One Phone Systems

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An interesting post has appeared on line about the new phone systems in use aboard Air Force One. It's an interesting read: http://ele...
Friday, July 04, 2014

NIFC NATIONAL AIR-TO-GROUND FREQUENCIES

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The National Interagency Fire Center maintains a standard issue of nationwide air-to-ground (A/G) channels for use in firefighting and other...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

USFS Air Tanker Base Frequency Updates

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The US Forest Service has released some frequency updates for the various air tanker bases around the country. Here is the link to the updat...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

NIFOG 1.5 Available

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The latest version of the National Interoperability Field Operations Guide (NIFOG) is now available for downloading. You can find links to t...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

WHCA Blog

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I just stumbled upon a blog page that I haven't seen before. It has some interesting information about the White House Communications Ag...
Friday, May 02, 2014

BATFE Update

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Just as the May issue of The Spectrum Monitor came out, with my column concerning the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (BA...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

SoCal DEA going VHF?

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I just caught some traffic on a VHF channel with some radio techs regarding receive sites and signal strengths as well as a radio interface ...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

SoCal CBP Marine Common?

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While in the Los Angeles area for work, I was picking up some of the many VHF P-25 frequencies being used throughout the southern end of the...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

New BoP System Near Philadelphia?

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I'm monitoring a P25 trunking control channel in the Philadelphia area that doesn't match up with what I've heard in the past an...
Saturday, March 01, 2014

Harlingen TX Logs

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I received a few frequencies logged from a friend on a trip down to South Padre Island and Harlingen, Texas. Here is what was picked up: 1...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Houston Federal Activity

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I came across a couple of interesting posts regarding federal activity in the Houston, Texas area. The first was some security detail acti...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

New Federal VHF TRS

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Some recent postings on Radio Reference are providing some details of a new VHF P-25 trunked system somewhere in northern Virginia. Here are...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

US Capitol Police Trunked System

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I saw a posting from Alan Henney about the new VHF trunked system in use by the US Capitol Police. The system is apparently in limited use a...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Super Bowl XLVIII CAP Flights

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It appears that the expected combat air patrol flights will begin with some training on Wednesday, the 29th; "Individuals in and arou...
Thursday, January 23, 2014

Super Bowl XLVIII

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Things are starting to ramp up at Super Bowl XLVIII in E. Rutherford, New Jersey. The Department of Energy began doing aerial surveys of nom...
Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Happy 2014

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I'm a few days late, but wanted to wish all the Fed Files fans a very Happy New Year ! This year marks the start of my Federal Wavelen...
Monday, December 23, 2013

Updated Email Address

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Just a reminder to all the folks out there who want to get in touch with me. My old email address at Monitoring Times will be going away so...

The Spectrum Monitor is Out!

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The first issue of The Spectrum Monitor is now available for download. If you have a subscription, you should have received an email with in...
Monday, November 25, 2013

Luke AFB Moves to P25 Trunked System

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Reports from the Phoenix, AZ area indicate that a new, APCO P-25 trunked radio system is in operation at Luke AFB near Glendale, a suburb of...