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Thursday, January 14, 2021

National Security Special Events

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The upcoming inauguration of Joe Biden is designated as a National Security Special Event, or NSSE. The Department of Homeland Security rece...
Saturday, January 09, 2021

GAO DC Helicopter Noise Study

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    The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released a report on helicopter noise in the Washington, D.C. area. In the repo...
Wednesday, December 30, 2020

2021 Presidential Inauguration

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    Despite COVID, there are plans still ongoing for the 2021 Presidential Inauguration, scheduled for January20th, 2021.  Traditionally the...
Sunday, December 27, 2020

Nashville Federal Response

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I have recently been inundated with emails and messages asking about federal agency activity in the Nashville, TN area in relation to the re...
Tuesday, December 15, 2020

DoJ Federal Interoperability Channels

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Here is an updated listing of what used to be referred to as the Department of Justice 25 Cities Project, and now seems to be just DoJ Feder...
Saturday, November 14, 2020

Federal Mystery Frequencies

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 A new federal mystery has appeared near my home base in the Portland, Oregon area.  Over the past month I have begun hearing some odd radio...
Sunday, September 27, 2020

Political Campaign Aircraft Tracking

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The October Federal Wavelengths column will give you some tips on monitoring political campaigns if they visit your area. After the column w...
Thursday, September 24, 2020

Federal Scanning with Scanner School

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                      For those who would like to hear me talk about federal monitoring with Phil, W2LIE, here is a link to Podcast #142 wit...

Las Vegas Update

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In the July and August columns, I published the frequencies I had logged while spending some extended time in Las Vegas. Here are those freq...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Federal Trunked System 3CD

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Some recent discoveries of new control channels in the federal UHF bands have indicated that these trunked systems are part of a larger trun...
Saturday, August 22, 2020

RC-26 Aircraft Use In Protests Investigated

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  Articles in the Air Force Times indicates there was an investigation into the use of  Air National Guard RC-26 surveillance aircraft for a...
Monday, August 10, 2020

163.4625 Mystery

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 OK, blog readers, here's another federal frequency mystery for you... 163.4625 MHz, NAC 001, radio ID of 1, talk group of 1. Heard encr...
Saturday, July 18, 2020

West Palm Beach Monitoring

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  Since Donald Trump became President, there has been much speculation about frequencies in use at Mar-A- Lago, Trump’s...