federal call sign question

[ecps92]

What we are pointing to is that many of these 3 digit numbers are a partial of the NTIA issued Call Sign.

ie:

a.) 620 on a Maine Border Patrol channel is KAD620 aka Houlton
b.) 801 on a Rhode Island/Massachusetts FBI freq is KCB801 aka the Providence RA
c.) 220 on a Florida CBP/ICE channel is KAD220

Once the OP returns and posts the Freq/Tone he is hearing with "215" then we can move on with this topic. Otherwise right now it is speculation

An agency having a 5 or 6-character alphanumeric call sign is not the same as the call signs being used by an individual officer/agent. I have yet to hear any federal, state, or local LE/EMS/fire traffic in which such a call sign was used, with the exception of one state police repeater that periodically broadcasts a call sign in Morse code.Everything else involves a 2-3-digit number, sometimes with a descriptor in front.

Examples:
"Engine 22" "Medic 11" (local fire department)
"Romney" (state police dispatch)

Everything else I hear is 2 or 3-digit numbers.

 

[jonwienke]

So does NTIA issue call signs for each individual officer/agent with a radio?

 

[nd5y]

So does NTIA issue call signs for each individual officer/agent with a radio?

No and neither does the FCC. You may be confusing government issued license callsigns with unit identifiers that a licensees make up and assign themselves.

 

[jonwienke]

No and neither does the FCC.

That's what I thought.

 

[hippieman556]

I didn't get the pl and I won't share the freq or it will go encrypted

 

[SCPD]

I didn't get the pl and I won't share the freq or it will go encrypted

I wish everyone realized this.

 

[ecps92]

Can't help you then. All speculation otherwise

But since you said PL, we can, from that say it is not FBI as they had migrated to P25 long ago.

If you wish to PM, I will check it against my list

I didn't get the pl and I won't share the freq or it will go encrypted

 

[hippieman556]

pm sent

 

[APX8000]

I am hearing a female keep saying 215 copy and then the other side comes back encyrpted. I have this in my radio as a fbi frequency. Anyone have any info ?

"215" is an FBI unit out of Newark.