[FedCom] ISR traffice this weekend -- NONE

[A10382]

Hi Ken,

Thanks for the info.

There was a time just a short while ago that I was hearing very short
comms - typically just a number or a single word - and usually a return mic
click on the 397-9 mHz comms.  The return mic click (ack?) is somewhat
typical of close combat comm.

This traffic was over a few weekends at the very beginning of the summer.
We do have some Army & National Guard playing around the dams here on
weekends.  However, I don't believe there's a Marine Corps reserve unit any
where in the vicinity.
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So many of the street-level drug dealers use the FRS units (for their
look-outs?) that many PDs have taken to issuing them to their troops.  These
folks are brazen enough to actually discuss their business in the clear.

My son is a Conservation Officer and has a state issued FRS unit for comm
with lost hikers and campers.  When they're not checking on hunters,
fisherman, campers, lost kids, chasing skunks, and tracking wounded deer,
there IS a lot of very serious crime in and around the state forests, parks,
and campgrounds.  He took the job because he just loves to fish and hunt.
Now he wears a bullet proof vest under his uniform shirt, carries a 9mm with
3 extra mags, and has to keep a full Swat setup in his trunk.... some
'walk-in-the-park!

73
Frank

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----- Original Message -----
From: "ken windyka" <ken.windyka@the-spa.com>
To: <fedcom@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: [FedCom] ISR traffice this weekend -- NONE


> Frank, I really don't think many of those radios are being used by any of
> the civilian federal agencies.  They were orginally meant strictly for the
> US Marine Corps & than a decision was made to put it on a GSA schedule
> which would allow any federal or military department to buy the radios.
> Also Civil Air Patrol jumped into the act.  A federal agency could go out
> and buy some regular FRS radios with voice privacy (speech inversion) & be
> in better shape than with these units.  I really don't understand why the
> USMC would every buy a radio that can't allow some sort of
> encryption/privacy (e.g. speech inversion)
>
> BTW with the exception of being retuned to the federal FRS freqs, it's the
> same ICOM FRS radio, no enhanced specifications at all for $85.00 a piece.
> Also the Army Guard/Reserves most likely will be using the VHF version,
> which is 5 watts and 30 channels, & allows real encryption, which the US
> Army designated as their intersquad radio.  I don't believe that this
> showed up on the GSA schedule for anyone to buy
>
> Ken
>
>
> At 11:42 PM 7/22/02 -0400, A10382 wrote:
> >I did have the UHF ISR freqs in my PCR1000 this weekend.  Absolutely NOT
a
> >peep, not a whistle, or even a click.... I'm located at a high spot
> >(elevation 1000') and usually catch some FRS UHF traffic from campgrounds
> >and state parks as far away as 25 miles.
> >
> >This is summer when the Guard and Reserve units from New England go off
play
> >in the mud in Upstate NY and Pennsylvania.
> >
> >I'll give it a few more shots in the Fall...
> >
> >73
> >Frank
>
>
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