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Wednesday, October 02, 2024

End of National Radio Quiet Zone?

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Community leaders and citizens in Pendleton County, West Original are growing weary of the longtime restrictions on communications equipment...
Thursday, September 05, 2024

CBP Aerostats May Be Upgraded

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  The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense are working on plans to upgrade the surveillance blimps along the Southw...
Friday, August 30, 2024

USCG Grounds Helicopters, Shortens Service Life

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An interesting article recently appeared that states the Coast Guard is reducing the service life of their MH-60T Jayhawk helicopters from 2...
Tuesday, July 23, 2024

MYSTERY FREQUENCY 172.4000 MHz

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Reports of activity on 172.4000 MHz, N088 in the Long Island, NY region. No other information was provided.  For what it's worth, the f...

MYSTERY FREQUENCY - 166.1125 MHz

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 During a recent POTUS motorcade in Delaware, a listener caught a Close-Call hit on 166.1125 MHz, N001 . This has not been noted previously ...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

MYSTERY FREQUENCY - 168.2250 MHz

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I recently saw a report of activity noted on 168.2250 MHz , P25 with a NAC of N001 during an Executive Branch Secret Service motorcade.  I h...

MYSTERY FREQUENCY - 406.2875 MHz

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I have had reports over several years of activity noted on 406.2875 MHz . My records did not have this assigned to any specific federal agen...
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

ICE Rebranding Itself

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It appears that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is attempting to re-...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

DEA Aviation Division

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I found some information about the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Aviation Division and what aircraft are used as well as where they ...
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...