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Friday, November 10, 2023

MultiCoupler Update

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  A few months ago, I mentioned in my column that I was using a powered RF multicoupler for some of my scanner setups while on the road. The...
Thursday, November 09, 2023

FBI Washington HQ To Move

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  News reports have the Washington, DC headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) moving to a new site in Greenbelt, Maryland...
Saturday, August 19, 2023

US Marshals Upgrading JPATS Aircraft

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  The US Marshals Service JPATS program is soliciting bids for an upgraded Boeing 737 aircraft to be used for prisoner transports.  http://d...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Gulf Islands National Seashore

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      I recently received some information regarding a controlled burn taking place at the Gulf Islands National Seashore, located along the...
Sunday, February 05, 2023

BLM LE USING SATCOM

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 On my recent travels through Arizona, I spotted a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Law Enforcement vehicle that had a large SATCOM antenna o...
Thursday, December 29, 2022

New Pages Added

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 At the top of the Fed Files Blog home page, you should see tabs that will take you to frequency lists of various federal agencies and offic...
Sunday, December 11, 2022

Federal Use of Analog

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In the December Federal Wavelengths column, I mentioned that most federal law enforcement agencies still have a zone of their frequencies in...
Tuesday, December 06, 2022

New TSA Frequencies Appear

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With the switch over  to UHF P25 for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), there have been some airport locations that are revea...
Tuesday, September 06, 2022

NIFOG 2.01 Now Available

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The newest version of the National Interoperability Field Operations Guide, also known as the NIFOG has been updated. Version 2.01 is now av...
Thursday, June 16, 2022

FPS Los Ageles Update

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I recently received word that the Federal Protective Service (FPS) in Los Angeles has finally upgraded their UHF repeater to be P-25 digital...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

June 2022 Column Typo!

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 It appears that one frequency in my June TSM column got cut off. On page 43 of the June issue, under the map of the Strategic Petroleum Res...
Friday, March 25, 2022

Super Bowl Podcast

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After my recent trip to LA for Super Bowl 56, I was a guest on Phil Lichtenberger’s Scanner School podcast.  We talked at some length about...
Tuesday, March 08, 2022

TSA UHF - UPDATES

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  The rollout of the new UHF radio systems for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) appears to be proceeding at a fast pace.  So...
Wednesday, March 02, 2022

LAX TSA Now on UHF

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While traveling through Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) today, I noted that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents ...
Sunday, February 20, 2022

Super Bowl 56 Reports

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 For those wondering, yes I was at Super Bowl 56 in Inglewood last week, and there was plenty to hear. I didn't publish what was happeni...

More UHF TSA Udates

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    I have recently received word of the new TSA UHF frequency being heard in the Houston, Texas area. 406.7375 MHz , was heard active with ...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Federal Protective Service (FPS) Changes?

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I have been receiving  reports of some recent changes in the Federal Protective Service (FPS) radio channels in multiple cities.  First, lis...
Friday, January 14, 2022

Chicago Federal Logs

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  One of the great monitoring locations I have encountered in my travels is O’Hare airport in Chicago (ORD). There is so m...
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

TSA on UHF Frequencies UPDATES!

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Over the last year, there has been some anticipation over the move of the Transportation Security Administration to new radios. They had bee...
Saturday, October 16, 2021

NIFOG 2.0 Available

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The latest version of the Department of Homeland Security National Interoperability Field Operations Guide (NIFOG) is now available for down...