Ft. Belvoir Department of the Army Police

[ColdWarVeteran]

I was scouring YouTube for some cheap entertainment when a video popped into my feed. This video was being recorded by an "auditor" in front of an entrance to Ft. Belvoir. The person recording the video was being contacted by officers of The Department of The Army Police and the date of the recording was 12/10/2021. What I noticed was a M.P. vehicle with a VHF antenna on the right passenger side near the trunk. The DAP officer had a portable radio secured in his tactical vest and it had a VHF antenna as well. Based on the length of the portable radio's antenna, it appeared to be tuned for the military VHF band from 137-144mHz and the radio traffic I heard sounded like P25.

I researched the RR database and couldn't find any VHF frequencies associated with the DAP or M.P.'s but I did find, obviously, the Joint National Capital Region TRS with all TG's assigned to the installation. Did Ft. Belvoir join the JNCR TRS since December 2021 and the video shows equipment in use at that time or, are they using VHF and no one has the information posted on this database? I ask because I recently made a trip from Georgia to Maryland and my route took me through that area on I-95. I travel that route a couple times a year to visit family and would like to add their VHF info to my scanner. If no one has any info maybe I can do a search of the military VHF band when I'm traveling through there again and possibly find something.

 

[RaleighGuy]

Have you tried a search (top right corner)? Here is one result it returned...

Fort Belvoir frequencies

In the midst of doing some very badly needed cleanup in the wiki, I came across this; https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Fort_Belvoir/Davison_AAF Now I thought Fort Belvoir was in Fairfax County; checking the database, it's not there. I may very well be looking in the wrong county, but...

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[ColdWarVeteran]

I did. There’s a VHF frequency listed for Davison AAF that’s on 139.40 mHz and AM mode so I have serious doubts it’s a frequency the DAP would be using but, I could be wrong.

Anyway, I thought it was odd for them to be using VHF radios when the post is listed as being on the JNCR TRS.

 

[dlwtrunked]

I retired from being an Army civilian employee at Ft. Belvoir 7 years ago. The MPs were on the 380 MHz P25 system before that and on a 400 MHz system before that. The 139.4 is one of the (seldom if ever) used frequencies at Davison Army Airfield.

 

[kg4icg]

Ft Belvoir is on JNCR system, for example just listened to fire dispatch on TG142

 

[Hbright]

During a recent visit to Fort Belvior I noticed the Dept of Army gate guards all had Harris radios. I was scanning the Fort Belvoir JNCR site and didn’t hear a thing (but I have in the past).

 

[northstarfire0693]

Possible they are using multi band radios. (APX 8K or Harris XL200). Generally speaking, the military uses UHF P25, the only exception I know is Alaska. FT Wainwright and Greely are VHF on the ALMR system.