Federal Freq. List For Los Angeles&Thousand Oaks Area

[moonboy]

FBI,BATF,USPS,ETC.

Thanks

 

[cousinkix1953]

Look for them just above the weather service. The feds use discreet channels without any real organized band plan for their repeaters, so you'll just have to search for them and realize that local police departments aren't gonna be talking about criminals that far up the VHF band. There is some US military traffic just above and below the 2 meter ham band too.

The Post Office and DEA are just below 420 mhz UHF. Much of the federal activity is gonna require a "digital" P-25 scanner even for things like the US Park service now. The FBI, SS, ATF etc are encrypted more often then not, so you're outta luck in that case.

The US Forest Service still uses analog FM radios; because CAL-FIRE and most of the local fire departments are still using older equipment. Once they get new radios by 2013, there won't be much left on millions of analog scanners but the CB and ham radio operators...

 

[brandon]

Brian at ScanDiego has posted the best FedCom list for SoCal
http://scandiego.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1248

I would also check out the SoCalFedCom reflector: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SoCalFedCom

 

[MtnBiker2005]

If anyone has more So. California Fed stuff to add to the list.

Please let me know! Just post it or send PM message.

It's still a work in progress....

-Brian

 

[moonboy]

federal freq. List

Thanks

 

[415dispatcher]

moonboy--let me know if you get any good hits on any of those frequencies...i live in simi

 

[trooperdude]

The US Forest Service still uses analog FM radios; because CAL-FIRE and most of the local fire departments are still using older equipment. Once they get new radios by 2013, there won't be much left on millions of analog scanners but the CB and ham radio operators...

CalFire will go narrow band in the next couple of years but there are NO PLANS to go P25 digital.

Your analog scanner that is narrow band capable will work just fine for CalFire well past 2013.

 

[cousinkix1953]

CalFire will go narrow band in the next couple of years but there are NO PLANS to go P25 digital.

Your analog scanner that is narrow band capable will work just fine for CalFire well past 2013.

Indeed! CAL-FIRE is already using several of those newly allocated narrow band frequencies (see Air Tac 21-23 in the database) which can be programmed correctly into my scanner. Lots of activity during those fires about 6 months ago too. Which means that the USFS isn't in a rush either; because iteroperability is a major issue for those fire services.

At least one of our local city police departments is using newer analog "narrow" band transceivers. There doesn't seem to be much of a difference in volume when both are using analog radios. I don't have to crank the volume up to hear them and the others don't blast my speakers out either.

SMOKEY didn't specify whether he was cranking up the volume on analog or narrow band P-25 signals. Maybe there is a difference with a mixture of modes...