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Wednesday, October 08, 2025

Quick Chicago Logs

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  On a recent trip through the Chicago area, I had time to set up one of my radios and do some searching near O'Hare airport. Here is wh...
Friday, July 04, 2025

US Coast Guard Renames Districts

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The US Coast Guard has officially renamed their operating districts. The new geographic names, approved by the Department of Homeland Securi...
Friday, May 09, 2025

OCDETF To Be Ended

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    The current administration reportedly is shutting down a Department of Justice task force that has focused on dismantling transnational ...
Friday, February 07, 2025

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 Super Bowl LIX 
Friday, January 10, 2025

NIFOG 2.02 Released

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The latest version of the National Interoperability Field Operations Guide (NIFOG) has been released and is available for download at this...
Friday, December 13, 2024

Whistler Group Out of Business

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According to posts on social media from National Scanning Magazine, the Whistler Group, parent  company of Whistler scanners, has apparenlty...
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...