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[sopranosno1]

the last 3-4 months,im picking up quite a bit of fbi traffic. from dayton, 167.4875-173.175 input 163.9875. lima 167.2875-167.7875 input 163.775. one day there was high band skip coming in and heard 167.6125 maybe from north eastern indiana. today caught 167.5375 fbi swat channel and their input 163.8625 and 167.5625 maybe a simplex channel. some of the traffic has been in the clear. street names, car plates etc....

 

[jpryor]

FBI traffic has been pretty active the past week or so up here in the NW Ohio area as well. I have a decent amount coming in from the Detroit area as well. Are you getting any P25 digital modulation yet down in that area? Cleveland Division hasn't gone digital yet, but I've been getting a mix of digital from the Detroit area.

 

[hoser147]

Good Job guys Im going to have to plug in some more freqs...............Hoser

 

[jpryor]

Here are the specifics from my logs from today and yesterday:

162.6125 Detroit P25 ENC
162.7375 Cleveland E2 Toledo Repeater Input DES 167.9
162.9750 Detroit DES 167.9
163.8625 Common D5 DES
163.9125 Detroit P25 ENC
167.1500 Detroit Repeater Output 167.9 DES
167.2125 Cleveland E2 Toledo Repeater Output DES 167.9
167.3125 Detroit Repeater Output 167.9 DES
167.3625 Cleveland E4 Sandusky Repeater Output DES
167.4375 Simplex/Airborne 167.9
167.5625 Common D4 DES
167.6375 Detroit A5 Repeater Output 167.9
170.5500 Detroit A7 Repeater Output P25 ENC
170.8250 Detroit A2 Repeater Output 167.9 DES
170.9500 Detroit A3 Repeater Output P25 Clear

 

[hoser147]

Great thanks Jeff..............Randy

 

[sopranosno1]

still analog here in the dayton area, atf digital, irs digital, unsure if dea is still analog or on marcs. last i heard dea was in dayton with dayton pd or the county on 418.750. last fall is when i last caught them.

 

[16b]

ATF is digital here in cow-town. 165.2875. It's about half and half clear/crypto. Oftentimes a conversation will be mixed. Poor training.

DEA uses channel 3, 418.750 (156.7) simplex to talk to their plane. Their old channel 6 repeater, 418.950 (156.7) is apparently still on the air--I heard them on there a month or so ago for the first time in years. I don't know what they use on a more regular basis, but it's probably Nextel. If it were MARCS we wouldn't be allowed to talk about it here anyway...

I've logged some unidentified VHF fed frequencies here in columbus, too. I'll post the frequencies when I get a chance. One is P25 and I hear DES encryption on another one.

 

[radioscan]

still analog here in the dayton area, atf digital, irs digital, unsure if dea is still analog or on marcs. last i heard dea was in dayton with dayton pd or the county on 418.750. last fall is when i last caught them.

I heard them a month ago or so and they were still analog.

When I was in the Phildelphia area last month I caught them using digital with a NAC of 156. Which is interesting as their analog PL tone is 156.7. One unit was completely in the
clear the others were digital, I have no idea why they were operating like that.

 

[jpryor]

If it were MARCS we wouldn't be allowed to talk about it here anyway...

They run full time encryption up here in Toledo, so I think we might be able to talk about it . . .

 

[wa8pyr]

I heard them a month ago or so and they were still analog.

When I was in the Phildelphia area last month I caught them using digital with a NAC of 156. Which is interesting as their analog PL tone is 156.7. One unit was completely in the
clear the others were digital, I have no idea why they were operating like that.

That goes along with the Federal plan, to use a NAC which corresponds to the standard PL tone formerly used by that agency. Hence, 156.7 = NAC 156.

There is a list out there somewhere that shows the conversions, but I forget where on the web I saw it. Might have been either here or Batlabs.