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Saturday, January 28, 2017

Changes Coming for VHF Marine Channels

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There are changes coming for the normal FM marine channels. The International Telecommunications Union has (ITU) has began re-numbering some...
Saturday, January 14, 2017

CHM Guide to the 58th Presidential Inauguration Now Available

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Alan Henney and The Capitol Hill Monitor on line newsletter have recently made available their frequency guide for the upcoming inauguration...
Saturday, January 07, 2017

2017 Presidential Inauguration Transportation Plan

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Just released by the US Secret Service, here is the transportation plan for the upcoming Presidential Inauguration. The details in this docu...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

More TSA Updates Pouring In

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The TSA continues to make changes across the country as it upgrades their radios. They are definitely changing the input frequencies to the ...
Monday, December 19, 2016

Uniden Announces DMR & ProVoice for 325P2 and 996P2

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Uniden has announced that they will begin to offer paid upgrades to provide ProVoice and DMR digital modes to the 325P2 and 996P2 scanners. ...
Monday, August 01, 2016

CBP DNET LIstings Updated

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In the August 2016 edition of The Spectrum Monitor, I offered the latest version of the CBP DNET repeater channel list: Channel           ...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

RNC Security Information

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The Secret Service has posted an interesting PDF file regarding all the security surrounding the RNC Convention in Cleveland. You can find t...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

GAO Report on The Secret Service

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I wrote about this report back in the April 2016 edition of The Spectrum Monitor: --> https://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/Mgmt/2...

Changes in San Antonio Military Systems

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Over the past few weeks I've been seeing reports on the Radio Reference forums of some changes occuring in the UHF trunked systems used ...
Saturday, June 11, 2016

DEA in NYC

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I've been working in New York City this week and noted hearing some Over-The-Air-Rekeying (OTAR) data on the DEA frequencies. I heard it...

TSA at IAH Changes

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I just saw a posting that indicates the TSA at Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) is now using a repeater on 172.9000 MHz, N0...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Whistler Steps Up to DMR

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After the announcement by Uniden that they would be offering an update to listen to DMR digital on the 436/536 line of scanners, the Whistle...
Monday, May 16, 2016

Uniden Announces DMR Upgrade

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In a thread on Radio Reference, the Uniden product manager (UPMan) for scanners announced that they were preparing to offer a paid upgrade t...
Saturday, April 09, 2016

New NIFOG Available

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A necessary tool for any serious federal scanner listener is the National Interoperability Field Operations Guide, or NIFOG. The latest vers...
Thursday, April 07, 2016

Super Bowl 50 Monitoring

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Here's a short list of what I was able to monitor during my stay in the Santa Clara area for Super Bowl 50: 136.3750    AM        ...

IRS - Heard Them Lately?

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At one time, the IRS division of the Treasury Department was fairly active on their federal frequencies. Lately they seemed to have gotten h...

Federal Use of DMR

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In the January 2016 issue of The Spectrum Monitor, I listed a few confirmed frequencies that seem to be carrying a digital mode called DMR ...

2016 - Where Are The Blog Posts?!?

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Sorry to all of the Fed Files blog fans out there. I've been neglecting my blog postings for too long now, and will try and catch up wit...
Thursday, December 24, 2015

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

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I hope all the Fed Files fans and The Spectrum Monitor readers have a safe and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Thursday, November 19, 2015

406.9375 MHz in Las Vegas Identified

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For some time I have been hearing Moto TRBO (DMR) on 406.9375 MHz . I assumed for some time that it was related to the VA Medical Center in ...