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firefighter89

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Does anyone know who is using this frequency in the Spartanburg area? It sounds like paging or data. I haven't heard any voice on it at all. No PL or DPL.
 

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Federal Agencies, more than likely FBI. The data sound would indicate ASTRO 25 OFB Encryption, which is what I hear around the Charlotte area in the same FBI frequency listing. I can not guarantee that's what it is but that would be my guess.

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Although the frequency can be assigned to any Department of Justice agency, the F.B.I. has been identified as a regular user in both Charlotte and Chattanooga in the "good, old days" ... before encryption, Nextel and cellphones.

I do not know if the F.B.I. is still the current user - or whether another agency is using the frequency.

You can still hear some clear-voice comms on the frequency when an unidentified local agency uses the frequency for airborne surveillance. The aircraft observer will call out - in the clear - a "target's" location for units on the ground. Only once have I been able to hear any ground units, and on that occasion, they were operating clear-voice also while watch a subject at a Pineville location.

The PL tone, when operating clear-voice, is 167.9 Hz. The last surveillance log I have on the frequency was during last December.
 
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