ATTN eceps92 Bill D. Prince Visit to Boston

[Ranger0034]

Good afternoon Bill, Have you been monitoring the Dept Of State Security Service channels for activity ?
If so, please report what you heard if anything, frequencies, ENC or NOT etc...
Thanks Paul

 

[RaleighGuy]

Good afternoon Bill, Have you been monitoring the Dept Of State Security Service channels for activity ?
If so, please report what you heard if anything, frequencies, ENC or NOT etc...
Thanks Paul

@ecps92 that would be interesting to know.

 

[ecps92]

much of the monitoring for the Royals and POTUS visit for this week and today have been:

408.3000R 97.4 - NARA
Mass State Police - SOPS (multiple due to the different escorts and security zones) - MSP Cycles, USCG / Boston / Maritime Nets
Hotel (Business Band Ops) and the local PD's involved with the local traffic

Today, we would expect plenty of USSS channels to become active

As for the State Dept - unlike years past (John Kerry days) - nothing and for those of us who did monitor the ole
409.5250R - been silent since last heard back in July


My suggestion for those in the area, learn to use the SEARCH features 162-174, 400-420 at a minimum

Good afternoon Bill, Have you been monitoring the Dept Of State Security Service channels for activity ?
If so, please report what you heard if anything, frequencies, ENC or NOT etc...
Thanks Paul

 

[kennyblues]

State Department DSS must have been using one of the simplex Agent to Agent channels.
USSS on Mike, Sierra and maybe Charlie. All ENC
Boston Police and State Police with escort details in the clear

 

[top13]

I had traffic on Station H, SOPS 1, 3, 4, 7. SOPS 1 was just State PD motorcycles doing road closures. UMass PD would have been busy and JFK Library Security, 408.300 would have been busy also. The FBI was doing radio checks in the clear, due to bad eyesight I could not see the freq. The PL may have been 167.9. This was a little while before the Prince's plane landed. On Tuesday there were 2 black H60's heading north right over me, flying low and fast while I was waiting for commuter rail about 3:45pm. On Wednesday before the Prince landed there were 2 H60's hovering off of Hull. Logan traffic was landing from the north. When the plane was entering the pattern an H60 from Hull went up to the Gloucester area the other one moved to a position east of Logan. Other big military aircraft were in the area also. The H60's had come from Joint Base Cape Cod. I was using a HP436 with the 842S antenna.

 

[ecps92]

FBI would have been P25 not using an Analog PL Tone

I had traffic on Station H, SOPS 1, 3, 4, 7. SOPS 1 was just State PD motorcycles doing road closures. UMass PD would have been busy and JFK Library Security, 408.300 would have been busy also. The FBI was doing radio checks in the clear, due to bad eyesight I could not see the freq. The PL may have been 167.9. This was a little while before the Prince's plane landed. On Tuesday there were 2 black H60's heading north right over me, flying low and fast while I was waiting for commuter rail about 3:45pm. On Wednesday before the Prince landed there were 2 H60's hovering off of Hull. Logan traffic was landing from the north. When the plane was entering the pattern an H60 from Hull went up to the Gloucester area the other one moved to a position east of Logan. Other big military aircraft were in the area also. The H60's had come from Joint Base Cape Cod. I was using a HP436 with the 842S antenna.

 

[top13]

FBI would have been P25 not using an Analog PL Tone

You are right. That is the big problem with the HP436, the print for Freq and tone is so small, hard for me to see.

 

[Larry51]

Here are some State Dept protection detail frequencies from "back in the day" when everything was simpl,er:

407.6000​	State	SY Countrywide 2
408.6000​	State	SY Countrywide-1
409.0375​	State	Protection details?
409.5250​	State	Field Office Primary Rptr (inp 418.525)
409.6250​	State	SY Countrywide rptr/mob. (inp. 407.2)
413.6375​	State	Simplex
418.5250​	State	Input to field office rptrs on 409.525

 

[ecps92]

Chris has some more finds in the P25 years

State Department Frequencies

Many times when monitoring DSS activity, agents will often switch from the main repeater channels to simplex, low-powered channels...

mt-fedfiles.blogspot.com

Here are some State Dept protection detail frequencies from "back in the day" when everything was simpl,er:

407.6000​	State	SY Countrywide 2
408.6000​	State	SY Countrywide-1
409.0375​	State	Protection details?
409.5250​	State	Field Office Primary Rptr (inp 418.525)
409.6250​	State	SY Countrywide rptr/mob. (inp. 407.2)
413.6375​	State	Simplex
418.5250​	State	Input to field office rptrs on 409.525

 

[ChrisP]

Thanks Bill - I saw a couple of typos on that page that I just fixed!

- Chris

 

[kennyblues]

Well 409.5250 IS active, heard it this morning.
Leads me to believe they were using a simplex agent to agent channel

 

[Hbright]

Well 409.5250 IS active, heard it this morning.
Leads me to believe they were using a simplex agent to agent channel

Encrypted, I presume? And is that frequency exclusively repeated or does it also do simplex?

 

[kennyblues]

Nope, two units talking in the clear

 

[kennyblues]

They weren't too far from my location this morning, I believe they were simplex

 

[Hbright]

Nope, two units talking in the clear

Interesting. It seems like USSS is (almost) exclusively encrypted. I think they’re radios give them an audible tone when they’re accidentally in the clear. I wonder if the same for USSS? And 409.5250 is conventional (untroubled) P25, correct?

 

[ecps92]

Yes DOS is conventional

Interesting. It seems like USSS is (almost) exclusively encrypted. I think they’re radios give them an audible tone when they’re accidentally in the clear. I wonder if the same for USSS? And 409.5250 is conventional (untroubled) P25, correct?

 

[ChrisP]

Interesting. It seems like USSS is (almost) exclusively encrypted. I think they’re radios give them an audible tone when they’re accidentally in the clear. I wonder if the same for USSS?

It depends on how the radio is programmed. They can get an alert if the secure switch is off. But I do hear some USSS traffic in the clear on some occasions, so they are not forced to use encryption full time.

- Chris