[FedCom] Re: 282.425

[Blaine Brooks]

Although I personally have never heard any 
traffic on the frequencies.. 282.425, 282.4,
and 120.325 are supposed to be active in 
South Texas with Customs traffic.

Here in DFW, Customs has not gone NEXTEL
(or if they have it's used very rarely). They 
are still active on a daily basis on their DFW
Airport repeater 165.6875 (primarily
checking international arrivals), as well as 
the occasional good surveillance on 165.2375,
which more often than not involves an air unit.

After having used NEXTEL in a business 
environment (no I'm not a federal worker),
I would have to say I agree with earlier posts
that I would certainly not want it as my primary 
means of communications, with all the system 
busy signals you can get, especially in a life
threatening situation. Why a government agency
would throw away a perfectly good VHF/UHF 
radio system for this, IMO, is pure stupidity. But
of course, we all know the government hasn't 
always had a clear level of intelligence, has it?


Blaine Brooks
Flower Mound, Tx.