[FedCom] Job Corps Trainng Centers

[ken windyka]

Hello Robert & the group:

Department of Labor Job Corps Training Centers are operated by private
contractors for the DOL.
My local monitoring experience has indicated that the contractor operates
on normal business band type frequencies rather than any federal/military
frequencies.  You might want to take a close look at the sign just outside
the campus since it normally lists the contractor's name that is operating
that campus and you may be able to do a license search at the fcc site.  At
our local campus it's strictly a UHF business band operation with basically
three channels: One channel is an area wide repeater utilized by the
Transportation section.  The 2nd channel simplex is used as a common campus
coordination/operations frequency (dormitory, training/education, security,
maintenance, etc.).  The third channel simplex is used by security.
Depending upon how large of an area the campus is, most of the comms may
very well between low power portable units with perhaps some comms with a
base station.

Ken Windyka
Springfield MA Monitoring Area        

At 10:26 PM 3/3/02 -0500,  wymanent@bellsouth.net wrote:
>Was down at a jobsite near Homestead Air Reserve Station (Florida) today and
>decided to take a brief drive around the base. snip..........>
>One section of the base has been redeveloped as a U.S. Job Corps residential
>campus and training center...frequencies in use are unknown, but I saw some
>handhelds that looked like VHF-Hi (antennas)...snip.......