[FedCom] US Forest Service Frequencies

[McCartney, Alan (US SSA)]

This is the list I go to for the USFS Boise Cache Frequencies

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/9952/nirsc.htm

Thank you,
Alan McCartney
N1KAK

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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:07:26 -0400
From: "Larry Van Horn, N5FPW" <n5fpw at brmemc.net>
Subject: Re: [FedCom] Security Reasons - delete everything
To: "Discussion of Federal Government Communications"
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Message-ID: <009a01c65d58$1e367b30$6400000a at Larry>

> It seems that the US Forest Service has taken nearly all of their 
> frequency info offline.

They have been in the paranoid mode for several years now Peter. I
remember 
several years ago we published a common list of Boise Cache freqs. We
got 
email for one of the jerks in their HQ demanding to be told where we got
the 
list. We told him Police Call which had been publishing the list for
decades 
and available in any Radio Shack store. I heard him say, "Oh! Thank you
for 
your time sir." <Click>

<My Soapbox Mode On>

Some government freqs managers are a bit more over zealous than others. 
These days anyone who has cast their faith with or associated with DHS
is 
way off the deep end. Those of you who have been around for a long time 
honestly think about this:

Folks such as CAP (amazing when a 11 year old can see those freqs, but I

can't), MARS (all three services), and SHARES (the never do anything
bunch 
like MARS) to name a few can have their freq list removed from public
view. 
Amazing what DHS managed to do in a short time.

I might be able to justify SHARES being FOUO (if they really did do what

they are suppose to do, pass government messages in an emergency), but
CAP 
and MARS? Give me a break. Looks like some Cold War Warriors druming up 
business again in the new War on Terror.

Nuff, there will be a major editorial on CAP, MARS and SHARES and their 
frequencies soon in MT.

<My Soapbox Mode Off>

73 de Larry

Larry Van Horn, N5FPW
MT Milcom/Help Desk Columnist
Assistant Editor Monitoring Times