Federal bootleggers (was 407.400)

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Nothing to do with federal monitoring, other than this was in the federal band. :p

Heard a couple of guys on 407.400 analog, no PL. Listened a little while and it was a tower crew.

Never can tell what you'll hear and where you'll hear it.
Kevin, in what General area was this heard/captured ?

Doesn't seem to be a known CCR default and my notes all point (if it was an NTIA approval) to the DoE
Wonder what CP has to add
 
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Kevin, in what General area was this heard/captured ?

Doesn't seem to be a CCR default and my notes all point (if it was an NTIA approval) to the DoE
Wonder what CP has to add
SE Texas. I'm no where near any federal facility and I could hear the guy on the ground so I suspect they were at either the self-supporter or the monopole about a 1/4 mile from me in different directions.
 

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SE Texas. I'm no where near any federal facility and I could hear the guy on the ground so I suspect they were at either the self-supporter or the monopole about a 1/4 mile from me in different directions.
My thoughts for DoE would have been WAPA, which is an under reported NTIA allocation, as with some of the others, Bonneville et
 

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I think you're reading too much into this. I'm about 99.999% sure these guys are bootlegging on this frequency.
Nope, not reading anything into it, just sharing my knowledge of the Freq/Use - nothing is out the possibility now-a-days
with CCR, Freqs made up by Radidio Teknitions and Foreign Travelers
 
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Nothing to do with federal monitoring, other than this was in the federal band. :p

Heard a couple of guys on 407.400 analog, no PL. Listened a little while and it was a tower crew.

Never can tell what you'll hear and where you'll hear it.
Alot of the Chinese radios have a default code plug that has "test" frequencies in the VHF and UHF bands out of the box and alot of folks just use the radios as is. I have a bank in one of my scanners with those programmed and you would not believe how many people just use the radio as is.

When I was driving around the other day, My close call captured some road flagders using 418.700!

Here is the default codeplug of a Cotre C006D. ALL Federal UHF!

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...DOUG
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Hmm I need to start scanning the 400 to 420 range with the record on it seems.
 

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The newer tri-band radios generally have channels programmed in the 200 and 300 MHz range also. The Baofeng 5RMs have about a dozen channels in those ranges from the factory.
 

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406.7625 DPL 023 Repeater. Probably from a band opening, talk of moving things around to different “lots”. Very informal talk.
 

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I've picked up some random data bursts near 137.760 waiting for ISS pass. (not beacons)
time back, 26,600 + a few CB bootleggers in the CAP band, I doubt they even know they are infringing on federal grounds.
 
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