2018 New Years EVE

[737mech]

I see the NV Guard is at the airport already, they are on NSRS EDACS system. 05-062/063/065 maybe more? Will be interesting to monitor the scanner Sunday night. I hope all is safe and everyone has a great time. Thank you in advance LV Metro Police for all you do to keep this a happy and safe celebration!! Happy New Year Everybody!!

 

[br0adband]

First NYE I'll miss in Las Vegas since I moved recently, they were always fun times to monitor what was going on with The Strip and Fremont Street Experience since I lived only 2 blocks from it. Kinda sad the Wife and I moved, to be honest, Springfield just ain't a happening place compared to Las Vegas, but not many places are.

Hopefully nothing seriously goes wrong at any points over this holiday weekend in town there, 2017 wasn't all that great of year especially considering the October 1st event at Mandalay Bay and the tragic loss of those lives that will affect many many others for years to come.

Happy Holidays to those of you still in Las Vegas and the surrounding areas, I hope the New Year is a great one for all of you and yours, make the best of it and keep safe, folks.

 

[737mech]

ICOM channel

Wild Horse NV Guard mentioned ICOM backup radio system anyone here know what freq that is?

 

[bryan_herbert]

The ICOM backup radio system might be intra-squad radio aka military FRS, look for IC-4008M HTs.

01) 396.875 MHz
02) 397.125 MHz
03) 397.175 MHz
04) 397.375 MHz
05) 397.425 MHz
06) 397.475 MHz
07) 397.550 MHz
08) 397.950 MHz
09) 398.050 MHz
10) 399.425 MHz
11) 399.475 MHz
12) 399.725 MHz
13) 399.925 MHz
14) 399.975 MHz

http://www.icomamerica.com/en/downloads/DownloadDocument.aspx?Document=191

 

[bryan_herbert]

National Guard doing radio checks on NVCORD54

 

[737mech]

NV Guard FRS

Bryan you never cease to amaze me on the stuff you know!! Thank you! Happy New Year!!

 

[KG7PBS]

Is the military FRS Analog or P25 any tones or NAC

 

[737mech]

Military FRS

I did not catch any hits on those freqs to determine pl. I'm reading the Icom ad about those radios and they appear just simplex radios in that freq range.

 

[bryan_herbert]

KG7PBS, the comms are analog FM just like civilian FRS and they have CTCSS (PL) tones, dont know about DCS tones.

737Mech, yep, very low power, only 500mw. Along the Strip, they should easily cover a few blocks.

 

[sean_]

I didn't listen to the radio traffic much, but I was monitoring air traffic. There were SEVERAL choppers and fixed wing aircraft flying around. BOTH police helicopters were circling around the city in various spots; homeland security had a couple helicopters and an airplane making loops for hours over various parts of the city; some contractor out of Oklahoma also was making loops over the strip and up/down I-15.

 

[montana1975]

Is the military FRS Analog or P25 any tones or NAC

some use digital mode most likely ,, i bullhead city ive been hearing digital on ch6

 

[KG7PBS]

06) 397.475 MHz You are saying you heard them use P25?

 

[montana1975]

06) 397.475 MHz You are saying you heard them use P25?

unknown digi mode , no nac shown

 

[Hooligan]

Those 10-20 years old ISRs were mostly an interim 'solution' that were never really liked by the military (not-including Civil Air Patrol) for their intended use & replaced with other systems, especially for field use.

In the New Year's Eve in Vegas context, ICOM should mean Integrated COMsec (radios with built-in crypto as-opposed to an external device), and usually means the SINCGARS family of radios. ICOM is kind of a dumb reference, but it works for them... Note: in the ISR/SIGINT field, ICOM can mean Insurgent COMmunications too.

Plenty of PR photos & some videos on the web show the NV ARNG troops deployed here for NYE, and the 800MHz EDACS Tyco/Harris radios are easily visible on some of the soldiers. Some images show that the deployed HMMWVs do have radios on the mounts. I saw no evidence of anyone carrying the old ISR radios.