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Saturday, March 23, 2019

Super Bowl 53 Wrap Up

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Here are the listings of frequencies I logged during my two weeks of work in Atlanta at Super Bowl 53. While not all of the activity w...
Friday, March 01, 2019

New Federal Bay Area VHF Trunking?

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Reports have been posted on Radio Reference about a new VHF trunking control channel being heard in the San Francisco Bay area of Northern C...
Friday, January 25, 2019

Super Bowl 53 Updates

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Once again I am at Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta, Georgia. I will post some limited updates on federal activity here, but nothing on active ope...
Saturday, December 29, 2018

New Email Address

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I have started using a new email address for communications related to the magazine column and other federal monitoring. You can email me at...
Friday, December 28, 2018

Tournament of Roses Parade

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For the first time in a while I will not be working on the television coverage of the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasaden...
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

TSA Moving to UHF Channels?

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A recent posting in the Federal Business Opportunities website, https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=25449a5f51bc288...
Monday, October 08, 2018

US Park Police in DC Move to P25 Finally

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It appears from postings on the Scan-DC mail list that the venerable US Park Police analog radio system may have finally met it's demise...

New Federal Trunking in DC?

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Over last weekend I noticed reports on Radio Reference of a new VHF trunking control channel being heard in Virginia around the Washington D...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

Unidentified Federal Trunked System A52

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A quick update on the unidentified P-25 trunked sites I and others have heard in the Las Vegas area. Radio reference has updated the entry f...
Sunday, June 03, 2018

TSA Dropped 172.9000 MHz?

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Back when the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) began operations in 2002, they were originally under the Department of Transporta...

Federal/Military use of NXDN

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   I recently saw some discussions about some VHF federal frequencies being used for an NXDN IDAS trunked system in Southern California. Mon...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

USS Portland HYDRA System

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Portland_(LPD-27) Here is a rundown of the Portland HYDRA shipboard trunked system: USS Portland...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

LAKE MEAD NRA Update

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A quick update on an item I posted nearly a year ago: https://mt-fedfiles.blogspot.com/2017/07/new-vhf-trunking-at-lake-mead.html At the ...
Monday, March 12, 2018

More VHF Lo Band P25?

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Last year I wrote about some VHF low-band (30-50 MHz) frequencies that were heard in the P-25 digital mode. The frequencies monitored were 3...
Thursday, December 28, 2017

New Southern AZ Finds

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While visiting family in the Tucson area over Christmas 2017, I came across some new to me federal VHF channels in use. These include 2 new ...
Thursday, December 07, 2017

CBP Captures Smugglers TRBO Radios

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A recent posting by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reports the capture of a group smuggling marijuana across the southern Arizona borde...
Monday, December 04, 2017

Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington

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   Fairchild Air Force Base, located near Spokane, in eastern Washington, started out life as the Spokane Army Air Depot back in 19...