[FedCom] air force base communications and encryption

[Mike Lehman]

I haven't been to Arkansas in decades, but my guess is that this might 
very well be related to the Clinton Presidential Library. Major new 
federal installation with need for new, secure comm system....makes 
sense to me, but beyond that it's only my best WAG.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL

Mark Meece wrote:
> 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