[FedCom] What can we actually monitor?

Fri, 17 May 2002 11:21:02 -0700

The FBI field agents are always scrambled in the SF Bay area, except when
training. Often FBI dispatch (or whatever you would call the office) is in
the clear, so you get half a conversation.

USSS in the past has done protection of candidates in the clear.

To my knowledge, the federal freqs are no longer officially published (i.e.
IRAC), so whatever you see published come from sleuthing new freqs or the
feds staying on their old freqs.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Arthur-Bryan E. Phelps
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 11:05 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [FedCom] What can we actually monitor?
>
>
> I know I'm really trying your patience, but, excluding the USSS,
> do the ATF,
> FBI, FEMA and US Marshall communicate "in the clear?" I just read
> in Monitoring
> Times where someone was monitoring the US Marshall Services,on
> frequencies I
> was told were useless. Then their is FEMA.  Police Call 2002 has
> their common
> frequencies published.  Why publish them if they don't
> communicate in the clear?
>  Granted you can argue thay MilAir frequencies are published and
> that is correct.
>  On some of those frequencies, however, some comms are encrypted,
> others in
> the clear.  Then not but not least the elusive FBI ... I get
> e-mail from folks
> who say they hear them and other folks who basically tell me they
> are impossible
> to monitor.  Our state police radios have the FBI frequency
> 167.5625 programmed
> in their radios.  I've never heard them communicate with each
> other, but....?
>  Some of you do credit to this hobby and provide a service to all
> of us through
> your tireless efforts in seeking out these frequencies.  You know
> who you are
> and I truly thank you.  I don't have your patience.  You might
> actually be the
> folks that can give me some straight answers. Does anyone hear
> anything in the
> clear on the following?:     163.1000        167.9       FBI/DOE
> Common
>    12.5
> 170.0250        167.9       FED GOV Common        12.5
> 169.7500        167.9       FED GOV Common        12.5
> 165.2875        103.5       ATF Common            12.5
>
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