[FedCom] POTUS in Houston debrief

Eric C. Carlson ecarlson at gmail.com
Mon Apr 14 23:46:09 EDT 2014


>From the POTUS visit to Houston April 9-10:

164.8875 NAC 001 mostly encrypted
165.375 NAC 001 mostly encrypted
165.6875 NAC 001 encrypted
165.7875 NAC 001 Bush 41 detail, clear
166.5125 NAC 001 mostly encrypted
166.7 NAC 001 encrypted
167.0375 NAC 001 mostly encrypted
What little was in the clear from USSS/WHCA was mostly in the days in
advance.  I heard what sounded like "lumberjack" (possible code name)
on 164.8875 and 167.0375 a few days in advance.

132.15 Houston Center coordination with TFR CAP
271.0 NORAD "Bigfoot" TFR CAP, "Shield 31" and "Shield 32" aircraft
out of EFD working the CAP
292.8 SAM Interplane - brief voice traffic heard here

City of Houston talkgroups:
CoH 9F - HFD special events command post with fire and EMS details
covering the motorcade and venues
HPD Citywide - motorcade
HPD Citywide Tactical 1 - encrypted, site units
HPD Citywide Tactical 2 - encrypted, route units

852.0375 (HPD Simplex 3 encrypted with NAC 061) was in use near
downtown but it was too weak to decode and I can't confirm it was
related, although I suspect it was.

Numerous FBI frequencies were coincidentally active particularly
during the initial motorcade but it's not clear if this was actually
related to POTUS.

-Eric


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