[FedCom] CBP Lake Erie

[Chris Parris]

Brandon, the IRS is a subscriber to the CBP nationwide network, but they are just that, a subscriber agency who pays for access to the CBP network. There usage would not dictate the use of any special NAC or PL tone. Yes, IRS allocated radio frequencies can and do use a P25 NAC of $100, but they are not the only agency to do so.

The CBP can and does use all manor of NACs or PL tones on their system, so I think looking at the frequency itself indicates this is CBP Border Patrol and Field Operations, not IRS.

- Chris


Chris Parris
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On Oct 5, 2013, at 1:24 PM, Branden Watson wrote:

> I am trying to figure if there are some IRS users on the CBP 680 Buffalo
> Sector Customs systems or if I am hearing other units in Erie PA, Cleveland
> OH, or maybe Detroit. I am about 5 miles from Lake Erie just south of
> Buffalo and sometimes during the typical inversion times I get hits on
> 163.625 - 680 CBP channel with a NAC of 100. I have read that a NAC of 100
> is usually IRS but am wondering if that is a NAC used by CBP somewhere else
> along the lake that I may be hearing.
> 
> thanks