[FedCom] air force base communications and encryption

[Jeff Kenyon]

ISsn't there a federal office building in Little ROck that would or could
use a trunked system?  Though, we have a large complex of federal stuff in
downtown Detroit the security I picked up a few weeks ago  was analogue
believe it or not.





On Thu, 3 May 2007, 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
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