Springfield Postal Facilities Ops Update Re: [FedCom] US Postal Service Additional Frequencies in Use?

[Ken]

Well more information on the Springfield BMC can be found at:
http://www.usps.com/bulkmailcenters/officeinfo/springfield.htm

After additional monitoring I've concluded that the VHF & UHF radio systems 
are separate systems not simucast information or linking VHF & UHF.  The 
Springfield facility building actually consists of two separate divisions. 
One basically does the letters & flats & the other does packages.

1.  General Mail Facility (GMF), now known as Processing & Distribution 
Facility, which is a central mail facility that processes & dispatches 
incoming and outgoing mail to and from a designated service area.  I believe 
this division uses UHF.

2.  Bulk Mail Facility (BMF) a central mail facility that processes bulk 
rate parcels as the hub in a hub and spoke network.    I believe this 
division uses VHF.

Reference:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service

Most of the actual voice communications is pretty boring but again it's the 
"chase" so to speak of searching the federal radio bands; discovering the 
active frequencies; monitoring the specific newly discovered frequencies; 
and evaluating what you hear to determine what the functional usage of these 
frequencies.

Of course, there may be some additional support radio nets such as security, 
that I still haven't specifically found.   (Does onsite security actually 
has access to an off site radio system that's used by the US Postal 
Inspectors & that Specific Dispatch Center e.g. Boston?)

BTW a complete list of BMC's & ASF's can be found at:
http://www.usps.com/bulkmailcenters/officeinfo.htm

Now there's a monitoring challenge for hobbyists in each of these geographic 
areas to monitor these facilities & post a complete list of frequencies in 
use/specific frequency usage.

Ken
Springfield MA Monitoring Area

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken" <rfinder1 at verizon.net>
To: <ScanWesternMass at yahoogroups.com>; "Discussion of Federal Government 
Communications" <fedcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 9:26 AM
Subject: [FedCom] US Postal Service Additional Frequencies in Use?


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> 406.5375 Repeater (CTCSS 173.8)  Appeared to be Management/Supervisory 
> Coordination
> 407.9375 Repeater (CTCSS 173.8)  Sorting Machine Maintenance 
> Dispatch/Operations
> 408.1375 Repeater (CTCSS 173.8)  Transportation, trailer switching to 
> loading docks?  -- Added: inbound & outbound Dispatching ..snip...
> 164.3875 Repeater (110.9) Sorting Machine Maintenance  (very active)
> 165.0500 Repeater (114.8)  Management/Superivsory Coordination, Hazmat 
> Response Team  (very active)
> 172.30 Simplex (94.8), Trailer Switching in Yard (not monitored last 
> evening) (usually very active)

> 166.1625 Repeater (114.8)  Mail Transportation (area wide) (occassionally 
> active)  --  It's unclear to me if the Springfield facility is the only 
> facility using this frequency.

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