[FedCom] social security administration?

[Chris Parris]

Jeff,

In most cases, Social Security offices are covered by the Federal Protective Service (FPS), or have contract security that is operating under FPS. The FPS is mostly all APCO P-25 UHF, but in some cases they are still analog. And encryption on the P25 channels has definitely increased over the last few years.

- Chris
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> On Feb 24, 2015, at 5:30 PM, Jeff Kenyon <jkenyon7 at rochester.rr.com> wrote:
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> HI all, I was at my local social security admin office this morning, and noticed a few things.  Firstly, the security has gotten much tighter and rules a lot more stricter as to what you can and cannot use.  I didn't bring my scanner at all for two reasons as one of them is that it is no longer handling a charge and is on its last legs, but the other reason is that I probably wouldn't be able to listen to it even with earphones in there anyway.  I noticed though that the guards were using digital radios, and I am assuming APCO-25.  As I have posted before it has been rather rare to hear anything other then images on the federal frequencies in my area here in Western NY.  Not sure if they are just an unreported user of the new P-25 system that is slowly being brought on line here or if they are using something else, but I am quite certain that the radios were digital.