[FedCom] Harrisburg, PA unknown

[Ben Russell]

Last week, I was in Harrisburg, PA for work for a few days.  While driving to
the meeting site each day, I had my scanner on in the mornings.

One day, I caught aerial suveillance ops coming over a local DEA UHF repeater. 
Interestingly, the aircraft was working the Philly area.  I had heard the same
crew working the day before while at home near Philly.  I can only assume that
the a/c was operating at a high enough altitude that it hit the local repeater
in Harrisburg (I only heard the a/c).  I didn't jot down the freq being used,
but I think it was 418.900.  DEA A1 thru A7 are all used in the
Philly/Allentown/Reading area.  

One odd thing I noticed was traffic on the DEA A5 frequency in Harrisburg. 
Every day I was out there, I copied analog radio traffic (95% of the DEA
traffic in eastern PA is P25, much of it encrypted) on 418.825.  The comms all
had a DCS of 365 and seemed to be medical/hospital oriented.  I never heard
enough to figure out a source.    There are several military facilities in the
suburbs of Harrisburg and there is (or was) a VA clinic on the west side of the
Susquehanna River.  Anybody have any ideas on this?  I'm pretty sure it isn't
DEA related.



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