[FedCom] New Antennas on Secret Service Suburban

[Monty]

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Thats a good one...


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--- Jim Johnson <jasbo01 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> That's an interesting observation and one I neglected
> to comment on in my initial post.
> 
> The Law Enforcement community in this area (city PD &
> Sheriff's Department) still utilize VHF comms almost
> exclusively.  (Though there is a steady migration
> underway to the Michigan Public Safety Communications
> System (MPSCS) - a statewide 800 MHz trunking system.)
>  Not sure how that might have been impacted in this
> instance.
> 
> However, I did notice...rather close up...that the
> USSS personnel were continuing to use their Nextels
> the whole while.
> 
> My guess is that they have with them, in one of those
> ominous black vehicles, a Nextel switch of sorts that
> allows them to be connected, via wireline, to the
> "Nextel Network".  (I know of situations in the past
> where Nextel would install a "node" in an especially
> large office building to serve the employees at that
> specific location and lighten the loading on their
> other sites so that they were available to roamers and
> other transients.)  Not sure that in this particular
> case a different group of frequencies would be used or
> whether the jammer can be selectively "notched" to
> pass some freqs and block others.
> 
> Jim Johnson
> 
> 
> --- listen13579 at att.net wrote:
> 
> > This site has some additional comments about the
> > vehicle in question
> > including some links to a possible manufacturer of
> > the electronic
> > equipment:
> > 
> > http://cryptome.org/spy-vehicle-02.htm
> > 
> > Law enforcement officers frequently rely on cell
> > phones as a backup to
> > their radios and a blanket RF jammer operating in
> > the 800 Mhz band would
> > affect their phones as well. I wonder if LEO's are
> > advised in advance of
> > a POTUS visit to make sure their communications
> > plans don't involve
> > cellphones?
> > 
> > Perhaps USSS would only turn the jamming on during
> > certain times (like a
> > motorcade movement) to avoid inconveniencing the
> > many people, including
> > White House staff, LEO's etc, whose jobs would be
> > affected by cellphone
> > disruption?
> 
> 
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