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

[MONIX]

To the best of my knowledge, not hearing anything personally,
are the reports that the Marines, who lead the program to
develop the ISR's to replace short range voice and
hand signals are the only people using them.
At $85.00 each GSA price they are a little expensive, a
few months ago the VX-150's which are NTIA Wideband
Compliant were going for less than $100.00.

CAP has a prohibition of using FRS's for "Missions"
however they can use them for other things.
At the last Air show here both CAP and OMR, the OH organized
militia (security), were both using FSR's.

MONIX
http://www.monix.org has more info on the above


> 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