[FedCom] 282.425

Thu, 26 Dec 2002 17:14:00 EST

In a message dated 12/26/2002 1:04:38 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> From: "Blaine Brooks" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 17:27:39 -0600
> Subject: [FedCom] Re: 282.425
> Reply-To: [email protected]
> 
> 
> 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. 

   It's pure stupidity to not consider the gov't (at least agencies involved 
with potential "life threatening" situations) might have a higher precedence 
of iDEN access for their Nextels, and to think that agencies have "thrown 
away a perfectly good VHF/UHF radio system" & replaced it with Nextels.

  Nextel is nice because their prevalence in society means you don't attract 
the same attention as you would talking into your sleevecuff or holding a 
relatively huge Saber III in your hand, are capable of Level I crypto, aren't 
really going to trigger an Opto Scout, the surveillance target isn't going to 
see/hear a full-strength signal on the traditional repeater input & 
comprehend what it could mean, and scanner geeks here aren't going to be able 
to post things like "I heard a cool FLEA operation on 162.475MHz here in West 
Overtown, but I ain't gonna tell you about it cuz it's sensitive stuff & I'm 
a patriotic, responsible guy" (as if there won't be other potentially 
sensitive ops on the freq he gave away in the future...).   And then of 
course, the Nextel also functions as a portable telephone instrument, pager 
device, etc.

  "Perfectly good" VHF/UHF land mobile radio capability is still retained, 
yet the usage is more along the lines of close-in, tactical communications on 
simplex mode, so there may be less repeater traffic, which in turn causes 
some people to think that the perfectly good, traditional radio systems have 
been phased out!

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