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Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Top 100 Military Frequency List

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In the October issue of The Spectrum Monitor ( http://www.thespectrummonitor.com/index.aspx ), I  posted my attempt at an updated version o...
Sunday, August 16, 2015

USAF Trunked System Expands in Colorado

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It appears that the US Air Force is expanding their regional trunked radio system and will have Buckley Air Force Base moving off of the fed...
Monday, June 29, 2015

"New" trunked system in Southern California

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On a recent trip the Los Angeles area, I stumbled upon a P-25 trunking control channel on 411.4500 MHz. I was located just south of the LAX ...
Monday, June 08, 2015

Portland Rose Festival Fleet Week 2015

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   I'm usually out of town for most of the annual Rose Festival Fleet Week, but I just made it back to get a chance to watch some of the...
Tuesday, May 05, 2015

Federal Acitvity at Mayweather Pacquiao Fight

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On Saturday, May 2nd, what was touted as the Fight of the Century between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao took place at the MGM Grand in...

Collecting Federal Radio ID's

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In the May 2015 issue of The Spectrum Monitor , the Federal Wavelengths column featured my first attempts at collecting federal radio ident...
Saturday, February 28, 2015

March 2015 TSM Update/Correction

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The March 2015 issue of The Spectrum Monitor is now available for publication. You can get a copy here: http://www.thespectrummonitor.com/i...
Friday, January 16, 2015

FPS Atlanta Mystery

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I am seeing reports on Radio Reference that the multi-site UHF trunked system managed by the Federal Protective Service (FPS) is not longer ...
Friday, November 14, 2014

October 2014 Federal Wavelengths Correction

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A sharp-eyed reader just brought it to me attention that there were a couple of errors in my listing of the frequencies used by the Environm...
Saturday, November 01, 2014

South Florida FPS Changes

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In addition to the upgrades to the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) radio network in Florida, it appears that the Federal Protective Serv...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

CDC Frequencies

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Some questions regarding the use of radios by the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been posted in regards to the confir...
Saturday, September 27, 2014

Email Apologies To All

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To anyone and everyone who might have been sending me emails to the  chrisparris@thefedfiles.com  address - I realized that I have not been ...
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 ...