[FedCom] air force base communications and encryption

[Jeff Kenyon]

Hi Chris, I was staying right in the middle of Little Rock,at a training
center for the blind, and I asked one of the locals there about the air
force base, and it isn't any place near Little Rock.  It is actually in
Jacksonville which isa ways out.
	There was very little clear coms on it, and the little stuff that
was clear was small talk basically.  It would be interesting to see who
this system belongs to.  Searching for federal stuff in Little Rock is a
lot easier then doing it in Detroit as you are not close to Canada which
Canada allocates those bands for businesses and some public safety for
locals.





On Wed, 2 May 2007, Chris Parris wrote:

> Hi, Jeff...
>
> I can tell you only what I observed in Little Rock late last year when I was
> there for a few days...
>
> I also picked up the trunked system you are referring to. It is a Motorola
> SmartNet system that shows a system ID of 4628. The frequencies that I
> identified with this system are;
> 406.1625, 406.3625, 406.5625, 406.7625, 406.9625, 407.1625, 407.3625 and
> 409.7625. All were using P-25 digital mode and all that I monitored were
> encrypted.
>
> RadioReference and folks on the Arkansas forum on RR seem to think this is
> Little Rock AFB, but I am not convinced. I made a trip up to LRAFB myself
> and was unable to pick up any trace of this system while I drove  around the
> perimeter of the base. I was also hearing base fire and security ops on VHF
> P-25 frequencies while I was there. I was only able to start picking up the
> control channel of this system when I got back in to Little Rock proper. So
> I have no idea where this system is or who it belongs to. But I don't think
> it is Little Rock AFB.
>
> - Chris
>
>  --
> Chris Parris
> Fed Files Columnist
> Monitoring Times Magazine
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>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Kenyon" <at649 at tcnet.org>
> To: <fedcom at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 5:29 PM
> Subject: [FedCom] air force base communications and encryption
>
>
> > hie veryone, I will soon be headed to Little Rock, Arkansas, and the last
> > time I was there I ran across a digital trunked system on the UHF federal
> > band, and  a majority of coms on it were encrypted.  I didn't know the
> > offset or base or anything like that, but I think it was Little Rock Air
> > Force Base with a cite for the trunked system in North Little Rock.  Has
> > anyone listtened to this system, and is encryption still in use there, and
> > what about other air force bases with regard to encryption, how heavily is
> > it used?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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