[FedCom] air force base communications and encryption

[Mark Meece]

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 and group,

Camp Robinson located about 5 miles west of Little Rock AFB seems to cover a
fairly large geographic area, but all I see based there is the 87th 
Troop Command and
the Arkansas National Guard. To me it would not seem to warrant a trunk 
system.
There is a U.S. Federal Correctional Institute at Forrest City, AR, but 
that is roughly 90 miles
east of Little Rock. I would doubt any TRS there would have that kind of 
range.
Otherwise I cannot find any other federal/military facilities near 
enough to Little Rock.


Sounds like we have nice mystery going,
Mark
Federal-Military Staff editor
American Scannergram
All Ohio Scanner Club
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