Clark County area miscellaneous

[Hooligan]

Since we're on the topic of VHF aviation freqs, 123.150 can be amusing to monitor
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Maverick Ops at McCarran is 129.725
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Papillon uses an FM repeater for ops -- 153.0125/127.3Hz Grand Canyon Tours by Helicopter, Airplane, and Bus | Papillon Tours

 

[737mech]

Maverick Ops Freq

Is that freq for Maverick also good at KHND or Boulder City?

 

[bryan_herbert]

118.7000 -- The database shows this as JANET Ops at McCarran but I cant hear a ground station. The FAA does however show this freq to be the CTAF at Desert Rock Airport in Mercury.

Is this freq confirmed as JANET Ops? Has their ground station at McCarran been heard on this freq?

 

[737mech]

118.7

I can confirm that is what is used at McCarran. Janet dispatcher to pilot comms. Mostly they assign parking spots on arrival.

 

[bryan_herbert]

This freq just got way more interesting. I've been hearing occasional air-to-ground (base ops) traffic since last July. Today I heard ARMY 050 (aircraft) talking to Nellis Control on 133.9500, they then changed their callsign to SHADOW 50. So I tuned one of my other radios to 167.0500 and not even a minute later SHADOW 50 checks-in with SHADOW OPS.

167.0500 -- Occasional air-to-ground simplex chatter between SHADOW (aircraft) and SHADOW OPS, both sides can be heard in Summerlin

 

[737mech]

Shadow Ops

Was there any pl tone or P25 used on that 167.05? Interesting for sure!

 

[bryan_herbert]

No tone, appears to be simplex.

Through an old newspaper article and callsign logbook I was able to ID the user: NV ARNG Reno-Stead Army Aviation Support Unit.

Ran the freq by a couple experts, none of us can figure out why the military is using a frequency allocated for federal use, none the less a freq that's been used exclusively by the FCC for several decades.

 

[bryan_herbert]

119.1500 -- Weak unIDed tower and aircraft comms heard, references to landing/departing 20R and 30R

Just heard an aircraft call North Las Vegas Tower.

VGTs published tower freq is 125.7, not sure why they're using 119.150

 

[737mech]

More likely the pilot was tuned to the wrong freq. Two radios on the plane, a quick switch over, forgot to tune?? Likely when KVGT has many students. His last was probably Nellis on 119.35. Just a guess?

 

[bryan_herbert]

It is indeed North Las Vegas Tower. I can hear the controller giving instructions to depart Runway 30L/R. Completely separate traffic from 125.7 and both freqs are in use.

 

[Hooligan]

No tone, appears to be simplex.

Through an old newspaper article and callsign logbook I was able to ID the user: NV ARNG Reno-Stead Army Aviation Support Unit.

Ran the freq by a couple experts, none of us can figure out why the military is using a frequency allocated for federal use, none the less a freq that's been used exclusively by the FCC for several decades.

I think SHADOW is one or more Nevada Army Reserve National Guard Companies/Dets of the 3rd Batt/140th Aviation Regiment -- a unit which has a couple detachments across the state, including one based at the NVARNG's Limited Army Aviation Support Facility at North Las Vegas Airport.

Due to their intended missions, UH-72 'Lakota' aircraft were ordered specifically with a good communications suite that'd allow them to interface with non-military LMR nets. The only UH-72 with an 50 tailcode I see listed online is UH-72A # 10-72150, which the web page states is assigned to a unit in Pennsylvania, any probably wouldn't ID as "Army 050" anyway.


Sure, 167.050 was once a national FCC assignment, but when's the last-time any reliable person heard activity on it which they could reasonably assume to have been FCC ops? It's been at-least 20 years for me, despite keeping that freq in my radios, and 14 of the past 20 years was living in areas that had FCC Enforcement offices (Northern California & SE Michigan).

I haven't heard that SHADOW traffic yet, but seems like it may be their Ops/flight-following channel, either local or statewide, instead or or in-addition to their more traditional ARNG channels in "federal" spectrum.

http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/2015/02/lakota-helicopter-order.html
https://www.verticalmag.com/features/improving-security-and-support/
Nevada Army Guard welcomes last of the Lakota copters | Las Vegas Review-Journal
10-72150 eurocopter UH-72A Lakota C/N 9388 - Helicopter Database
Nevada National Guard Train with California Firefighters - Helicopter Database
Nevada Army National Guard Det 1 B/D Co 3/140th AVN art by - SP

Since they have a homeland safety & security mission, maybe the Shadows will be active along with other NVARNG units during the New Year's Eve event.

 

[Hooligan]

MGM LV properties use WAVE to integrate traditional LMR with smartphones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2AvqhRNeLs&feature=youtu.be

 

[bryan_herbert]

Metro TG 10106 was active this afternoon and not encrypted -- dont see it in the database

 

[Hooligan]

Early this morning I scored the ID of a callsign routinely heard on LVMPD that I'd been trying to figure out for a while. Usually heard on Admin, callsign is "US###."

Turns out it's Union Pacific Railroad Police.

He found a body wrapped in a body blanket at about 12:30AM & called in on Admin asking for a back-up & FD/EMS.
Admin dispatch told him a unit from DTAC was on the way, and the US246 advised he would switch to DTAC (so he is on a 700MHz radio, not hitting Admin via the old VHF link), and LVFD dispatch ID'ed the reporting party as a "Union Pacific Police Officer."

The body has a lot of head trauma, so they're considering it a homicide.

Death of man found near downtown Las Vegas investigated as homicide | Las Vegas Review-Journal

https://www.up.com/aboutup/community/safety/special_agents/index.htm
http://www.npstc.org/download.jsp?t...Police_IO_Mission_Critical_Comm_Sept_2014.pdf (this was approved a few months ago)

I assume he's got a multi-band radio, so he can also speak directly with trains on VHF.

 

[bryan_herbert]

The Metro Admin channel is probably my favoritest freq out here. Its not only a Metro staff freq but it also serves as outside agency access. The Coroner, SAR, UPRR PD, Probation & Parole, many others use it.

 

[737mech]

NNSA to NYE PD

I know this is Clark County area discussion, maybe should post new in NYE?? Anyway I heard a direct comm from NNSA to Nye County PD Dispatch today on NNSA TG 880. They had a training drill for an active shooter on the test site. That's an interesting link up.

 

[bryan_herbert]

A good chunk of NNSA is in Clark County so your post is good

 

[bryan_herbert]

152.0075 -- CSQ -- CCFD Rural Dispatch

ULS License - Public Safety Pool, Conventional License - KNAK503 - Clark County of - Frequencies Summary

Im listening to SNACC and 158.9700 and there's more traffic on this freq than those two combined

 

[Hooligan]

While on a SIGINT mission in The Rio hotel & casino parking lot last night, I came across people on 461.2125MHz analog simplex, using a DCS of 452. It wasn't a primary target so I didn't focus a lot of attention on it, however the 3 or 4 users, ID'ing by their first-names & all apparently close to each other ("I'm at the coffee machine now. Anyone want some, while I'm here?") had very strong signals. Comms were informal, and got NC-17 rated at some times ("My daughter's got cute girl friends -- it's going to be the pool scene from 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' at my house a couple Summers from now when they're older!"), and it seemed like they were basically just sitting around, waiting for something to end, so they could do some quick work & then go home for the night. One lame-*** was even counting-down the time -- "68 minutes left!," which tended to indicate they either got off-work at 11PM, or their last job task would start at 11PM.

The strange thing is that I was able to hear these guys, albeit weakly, all along my drive home to the Anthem section of Henderson -- suggesting they were not using handheld radios.

I didn't get any local hits on the freq in the FCC database.

I do have a decent guess as to who & where they are, but since I'm not sure, I'll keep my speculation quiet for now, and use the "Ask the Audience" lifeline to see if any of you get clues based on monitoring their comms and/or RDF'ing them. If my hunch is right, they may be on the air every night from mid-evening until around 11PM except Thursdays.

 

[Hooligan]

Starting a couple weeks ago, SNACC TGs 1411 & 1415 became active with what was obviously security patrols/response for the RTC buses & facilites. Because the Las Vegas area has so many savages, and many savages rely on public transportation like RTC, RTC was forced years ago to contract with a private security firm to provide security for customers & RTC employees, instead of calling LVMPD each time some bum passed-out on the bus or some crazy person started a disturbance. The company that's had the contract for a while is AlliedBarton, & some of you locals will remember the incident from a couple years ago where an armed AlliedBarton security officer shot an RTC bus passenger at the bus stop in front on the Paris on LVB. AlliedBarton's new name or parent name is Allied-Universal, but since RTC still refers to them as AlliedBarton, I will too.

Hearing the buses on their multitude of SNACC TGs occasionally asking their dispatch to have Allied-Barton respond to an incident but not hearing the Allied-Barton personnel being dispatched on the RTC or any other SNACC TGs, I often wondered what radio system Allied-Barton used.

I caught an incident a few min ago where an RTC bus driver using on of their SNACC TGs asked dispatch to send AlliedBarton officers to his bus for a disturbance, so then I monitored SNACC TGs 1411 & 1415, and sure enough, on 1415 I heard a Charlie-callsign unit dispatched to that bus.

So, SNACC TG 1415, and likely 1411, are now in-used by RTC security. Not sure what the distinction is between the two TGs, maybe they have two to break-up the amount of air-time that'd otherwise be on one TG. Also, I don't know for sure that all the users on those TGs are AlliedBarton security officers.

I believe their use of SNACC coincides with a very large increase in AlliedBarton's daily services to RTC. As you'll hear on the TGs, there's a lot of solo & paired officers riding bus routes, patrolling the routes in their security vehicles, and on foot patrol at bus stops now.


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I think this article explains the recent changes:

RTC may spend $4 million to modify bus fleet, hire security officers | Las Vegas Review-Journal