[FedCom] New VHF Trunking System in DC Area

[Chris Parris]

I recently posted on the Fed Files blog that listeners were reporting  
many new VHF P-25 trunking sites starting to go live in the northern  
Virginia and Washington DC areas. Some additional information has been  
posted. Here is what we know so far - The trunked system is showing a  
System ID of 010, WACN of BF58A, and at least 7 sites found so far.  
Only one talk group has been reported so far, TG 9301 doign radio  
checks.

168.6250 - Site 6-001
168.8250 - Site 6-001
168.8875 - Site 10-001
169.6000 - Site 2-001
170.6250 - Site 3-001
170.8625 - Site 14-001
170.8750 - Site 2-001
170.9125 - Site 3-001
171.2750 - Site 2-001
171.5375
171.6250 - Site 7-001
171.7750 - Site 4-001
171.9875
172.6250 - Site 5-001
172.6375 - Site 12-001
173.9000 - Site 14-001

So who does this system belong to? There is some evidence that this is  
the new National Capitol Region overlay of the Justice Department's  
Integrated Wireless Network (IWN). Although this system is utilizing a  
different System ID and WACN than the original IWN sites, this may be  
the next step to expanding the system to different regions of the  
country. Most of these frequencies are in the same pool of new  
allocations and Justice Department allocations that are used currently  
in the legacy IWN sites.

In the Justice Department budget requests for 2011, one of the major  
goals of the IWN is listed as,
"... the first Region 1 IWN implementation is scheduled to go live  
(e.g., receive authority to operate and begin transition of users to  
the new system) in the National Capital Region (Washington, D.C. and  
proximate areas), in late 2010."

The document this quote came from is available here:
http://www.justice.gov/jmd/2011justification/pdf/fy11-lewc-justification.pdf

More as we find it!

- Chris
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Chris Parris
Fed Files Columnist
Monitoring Times Magazine
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