[FedCom] In the clear

[John Wilson]

   Don't take everything published as gospel.  If one or more DVP units has a decoding problem and alternate comms are not available, then
it is possible that the comms will be in the clear.  I monitored a FBI surveillance a couple of years involving an aircraft and ground units following a suspect vehicle across the state.  One of the mobile units could not go DVP.  All the comms were in the clear.  It doesn't
hurt to have them programed into a scanner.  You never know.

Mike wrote:

> Yesterday in Anaheim, CA there was a very good surveillance on 418.675 156.7 Hz ctcss (DEA).  163.20 136.5 was in the clear also (Marshals).  170.025 167.9 (FBI) was in the clear with a surveillance.  Daily there are surveillances on 166.4625 (Treasury Common) in the clear.
>
> 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.
>
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