[FedCom] RE: FCC

[Ed]

i've monitored FCC field enforcement in Philadelphia, PA on 167.05 as 
recently as last year, tracking down FM pirate broadcast stations with a 
"WJ" (apparently a watkins-johnson surveillance receiver.)

use of this frequency is very sporadic; i'm surprised they don't just use 
cellphones 100% of the time.

besides vans, they use very discrete unmarked sedans with a custom 
direction-finding antenna array built into the (fiberglas) roof.

-ed


At 11:36 AM 2/20/06 -0500, you wrote:
>Several years ago while in Miami, FL  I do recall hearing the FCC repeater
>in 167.0500 MHz in operation, but they were using what sounded like DES
>encryption. A friend from the area mentioned that they had been using
>encryption for a while. I did not hear it on my last visit to Miami last
>August.
>
>And probably 8 or 9 years ago, I did get a chance to see one of the FCC
>monitoring vans. Surprisingly it was still carrying a VHF low-band whip on
>the back. 41.060 MHz was their low-band allocation, but I never have heard
>that in use...
>
>- Chris
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