Who is Using?? Re: [FedCom] IRS freqs

[Ken Windyka]

I've had these freqs in the scanner since they were first published, and
have been at large military
airshows/open houses  ... I've yet to hear any activity on these freqs.
I've also seen/heard CAP using normal FRS radios with CTCSS enabled (as of
last weekend at the Schenectady NY air show).  Would be interested to find
out what agencies actually are using these radios on a regular basis or for
that matter even having purchased the units.  My guess is there's a lot more
fed agencies using standard FRS radios which are probably 70% cheaper than
the IRS units & they probably had purchased the FRS units for IRS became
available.

Has anyone heard any federal agency using these???

Ken
Springfield MA Monitoring Area


----- Original Message -----
From: "MONIX" <monix@monix.net>
To: <fedcom@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: [FedCom] IRS freqs


> I routinely keep a scanner going which has the ISR
> (Federal Users equivalent to FRS radios which being
> under NTIA they are not allowed to use)
> frequencies in it and have never heard another unit.
>
> Except of course another unit I was talking to as I have two
> of the IC-4008M's for CAP communications.
>
> There is no encryption option.
>
> It appears that some people are not aware of the frequencies.
>
> 396.875        01 ISR Inter Squad Radio (ISR) FM
> 397.125        02 ISR
> 397.175        03 ISR
> 397.375        04 ISR
> 397.425        05 ISR
> 397.475        06 ISR
> 397.550        07 ISR
> 397.950        08 ISR
> 398.050        09 ISR
> 399.425        10 ISR
> 399.475        11 ISR
> 399.725        12 ISR
> 399.925        13 ISR
> 399.975        14 ISR
>
> MONIX