[FedCom] Twin Cities Monitors

[Bill]

Much of the USACE are VHF [atleast in New England] however the channels and 
Repeater pairs
are mixed and matched from the 140-150 Mhz Region to the 162-174 Mhz Region.

Not sure how out-dated this site is, but a quick GOOGLE search on
"corp of engineers frequencies minnesota" brings back
http://villa.lakes.com/terrythetech/Radio%20Frequencies%20of%20Minnesota.htm


Bill Dunn    N1KUG
Cruise Ship Frequencies
http://home.earthlink.net/~ecps92/cruise_ships.htm
Now feeding USCG Sector Boston via Team Speak
info at http://scancapecod.us/xoops/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=12


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J&D Schnoor" <jimdianes at frontiernet.net>
To: "Discussion of Federal Government Communications" 
<fedcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 11:58 PM
Subject: [FedCom] Twin Cities Monitors


>I am located here in the suburban Twin Cities Metropolitan area and I can't 
>recall many people posting much of anything regarding federal here in 
>Minnesota in the past.  But that is not the purpose of my post.
>
> I am wondering how many federal monitors here are anxiously awaiting the 
> arrival of the forthcoming GRE PSR-500 and PSR-600.  I was thinking that 
> the ability to have PL/DPL decoding AND NAC decoding should be of value to 
> federal monitors.  For example, say a given frequency is used both analog 
> and P-25.  Simply program it once as analog with the correct PL tone, 
> assuming one is used, and program a second time as digital with the 
> correct NAC code.  Hopefully if they are on analog, but not in the clear, 
> they will not be heard becasue of the PL tone.  If they are P-25 I hope 
> the radio only passes audio if it is not encrypted.  Plus there shouldn't 
> be a whole lot of inter-modulation, mixing, front end overload with the 
> decoding ability.
>
> I have a Uniden Bearcat BCD996T now.  With the federal frequencies that I 
> monitor now that are analog, I program the PL tone, if one is used, but it 
> isn't quite so simply for P-25 channels.
>
> Slightly back to the bridge collapse, does anybody what frequencies the 
> U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now using?  I was at Lock and Dam 1 a 
> couple of weeks ago and it looked to me as if the employee I spoke with 
> had a Motorola VHF P-25 portable with him. 
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