[FedCom] IRS freqs

Sat, 30 Aug 2003 20:53:47 -0400 (EDT)

Ken,
Right in your backyard I have seen the ISRs in use, in fact I asked and was allowed the privilege of examining one once. Camp Edwards and Fort Devens USMC and Navy units use them in the field. From my observations they are also extensively used with headsets of some sort on the combat litter course at Devens.
I have also once seen one in the hands of Army brass at a field TOC at Edwards.

-------Original Message-------
From: Ken Windyka <[email protected]>
Sent: 08/30/03 05:07 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [FedCom] IRS freqs

> 
> Well, the one only other report I got via the MILCOM list is of a military
unit also perhaps USMC...   So I would guess that on the civilian agencies
arena, NO ONE is using these low powered freqs???

Also I think that a major hinderance is that most scannerists don't have
scanners that cover the 397-400 mhz band in NFM mode, so if there was
activity there would be  few folks actually monitoring those freqs than
the
"normal" type federal band (e.g. 406-420, 162-174 mhz).

Again I've noted that agencies such as the US Postal Inspection Service,
FBI, IRS CID,  will use simplex within the same band they are operating in
normally VS thes low powered government freqs/

Ken
Springfield MA Monitoring Area

----- Original Message -----
From: "A10382" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: [FedCom] IRS freqs

> Last summer and fall I had these ISR freqs in my Icom PCR1K.
snip..snip..
Sections of them are occasionally closed off and
> used by the Marine and Army Reserve units for maneuver training (no
heavy
> vehicles though).  On weekends I would hear very brief one or two word
comms  and a lot of mic clicks in response - leading me to believe at the
time that  groundpounders &  grunts were using these freqs.
snip..snip..

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