Rolfman said:
One day I heard someone asking about how many scanners were running and wondered if this might be the TSA that scan the luggage.
Okay, good news...well, maybe. I stayed locked on to TG 1648 from about 9:00 am today until after 2:45 pm (still locked on, actually) and heard the following. It is really hard to hear exactly what they say because they tend to start talking
as they are keying the mic and so most of the time the first words are not readable.
Mostly I heard them talking about jams, clearing them, and relieving one another for lunch. Then I heard one of them say, "Delta is talking about shutting down one of the lines because they are shorthanded today." Another voice then came on (sounded like a manager or something) and said to go ahead and shut a line down.
Then there was some discussion about Ticket Counter #2 and, "TX 1 is going down. Delta called the jammer."
After hearing these things today, I might have to agree with
Rolfman. I still don't know if it is baggage handlers or TSA. It seems to me that either one should generate more voice traffic, but without seeing their operations it would be hard to say for sure.
At this point it is still all conjecture but I think "we" might be getting closer. I just need
ONE clear, concise, specific sentence to identify them, but I don't know what that sentence might be.
It would be nice if someone else could also concentrate on trying to monitor this TG but I know that not everyone is geographically located to do that. Another thing I don't know
yet is if they are also on there in the evening and night hours. As it is now, I haven't heard a peep out of them since about 1:30 pm - over an hour.
So here are some questions for y'all:
(1) Are the baggage handlers employees of the Airport Authority or are they employees of the individual airlines? I would think the individual airlines but the conveyor system(s) has to be Airport Authority property...I think.
(2) If this is TSA, wouldn't you expect them to be on a Federal radio system (TG)?
(3) If this is TSA, why no traffic about individual bags being pulled for inspection?
Help me out here, guys.