A question for those who monitor the Postal Service. Do they use the same federal "MegaCenters" that the Federal Protection Service does? There are now only 4 of them in the country and the west is served by the Denver MegaCenter. Do they use a number when calling dispatch or do they use the city the dispatch center is located in as the designator?
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ecps92
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Nope.
FPS - MegaCenters | Homeland Security
USPS - last I knew was in Texas.
The PIS Web site allows you to search for your local office by ZipCode.
Altho they do list the Regional Address, all phone numbers are (877) 876-2455
411.com says this is in Michigan.
Wikipedia says Two Dispatch/MegaCenters for USPS
United States Postal Inspection Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And a little more google brought
https://about.usps.com/publications/pub278.pdf
The Postal Inspection Service’s National Law Enforcement
Control Centers (NLECCs) are located at Dulles, Virginia,
and Ft. Worth, Texas. The two 24-hour facilities monitor
the agency’s national law enforcement radio network and
intrusion-detection systems at Postal Service facilities
nationwide. They provide emergency and after-hours phone
coverage for the Postal Inspection Service and give Postal
Inspectors access to law enforcement and intelligence
information. The NLECC facilities are designed with full
redundancy to support operations for the entire country
from a single facility should operations fail at one facility.
90% of my PIS is ENC
Use to atleast hear the cruiser was filled/topped-off
FPS - MegaCenters | Homeland Security
USPS - last I knew was in Texas.
The PIS Web site allows you to search for your local office by ZipCode.
Altho they do list the Regional Address, all phone numbers are (877) 876-2455
411.com says this is in Michigan.
Wikipedia says Two Dispatch/MegaCenters for USPS
United States Postal Inspection Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And a little more google brought
https://about.usps.com/publications/pub278.pdf
The Postal Inspection Service’s National Law Enforcement
Control Centers (NLECCs) are located at Dulles, Virginia,
and Ft. Worth, Texas. The two 24-hour facilities monitor
the agency’s national law enforcement radio network and
intrusion-detection systems at Postal Service facilities
nationwide. They provide emergency and after-hours phone
coverage for the Postal Inspection Service and give Postal
Inspectors access to law enforcement and intelligence
information. The NLECC facilities are designed with full
redundancy to support operations for the entire country
from a single facility should operations fail at one facility.
90% of my PIS is ENC
Use to atleast hear the cruiser was filled/topped-off
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AZDon
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The Postal Inspection Service has two control centers, each is capable of handling Inspector radio communications for the entire country, to include, Hawaii, Alaska and the Caribbean. One is located in Dulles VA not far their Crime Lab and the other is located in Grapevine TX. Postal Police have their own local repeaters for the facilities where they are assigned and those systems are not linked to the NLECC's. National Law Enforcement Control Centers.
The NLECC's only handle radio traffic on the Inspector nets which could consist of Inspectors, Postal Police or Postal OIG. Hundreds of systems are linked to the NLECC's via Postal own WAN network. Both NLECCs are assigned certain geographical areas. Here is a new twist, they trunk rotate their dispatches. When a call arrives at the NLECC it is routed to the next available dispatcher. A dispatcher can be locked into a certain division for operational purposes.
AZDon
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US Postal Inspectors encryption
Today, all Postal Inspector and Postal Police voice radio traffic is encrypted. The one and only analog channel they have on their UHF radios is actually a Postal frequency used to communicate with Postal Service Supervisors and Postal Managers during emergencies.
Today, all Postal Inspector and Postal Police voice radio traffic is encrypted. The one and only analog channel they have on their UHF radios is actually a Postal frequency used to communicate with Postal Service Supervisors and Postal Managers during emergencies.
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Some great information, Bill. Thanks to you and others who answered my question so thoroughly.
ecps92
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As for the ENC, YMMV as do the regional frequencies.
Let us know what you have in your area for USPS activity (even ENC)
Hope your feeling better :wink:
Let us know what you have in your area for USPS activity (even ENC)
Hope your feeling better :wink:
The nearest city for us is Carson City, NV at 55,000 people. It is located 140 miles to the north. 240 miles to the south are Palmdale and Lancaster with a combined population of about 515,000. Our post offices are pretty small and the need for radio communications is nearly null.
There are only 14 post offices in the region, which north to south is about 250 miles and averages about 70 miles east to west.
By eastern U.S. standards the two county region we live in is remote. However, I don't think a place to live is remote if you are living in or within 10 miles of a place you can buy gas, pick up your mail: and buy lettuce, milk and eggs. I went to visit the older brother of a friend of mine in college. He was living at the Beaverhead Ranger Station (now "demoted" to a work center) On the Gila National Forest in New Mexico. The pavement ended 45 miles from this station. I don't remember the name of the little settlement where the pavement ended, but they sold gas, the food items I mentioned above and had a small, contractor operated post office inside. It was also the nearest school bus stop. I visited this station in 1979 and the only phone at the station was a base installed VHF mobile phone. The cost was so great that the phone had a lock on it and it was mounted to the District Ranger's desk. They had two large generators and they ran one for a week and the other the next week. That begins to approach my idea of remote, but nothing in the lower 48 is very remote.
For the National Park Service a park that is surprisingly remote is located in Texas. Big Bend National Park has a community behind the park headquarters at Panther Junction. About 150-175 people live there and they are the employees and families of the National Park Service, Border Patrol, the park concessionaire and teachers of a small K-8 school. The nearest town of any size is Alpine, Texas with just over 6,000 people, which is 100 miles away.
In somewhat isolated areas the federal government doesn't have much radio coverage for the agencies people in the east and large metro areas listen to. The exceptions are the NPS, USFS, BLM and USFWS. I had access to the special use permits issued on the Inyo National Forest and the only other federal system in the two county region was the FBI on one mountain top. They had the only electronic site permit I ever seen that did not list the frequencies being used.
In the backcountry the only coverage is that of the NPS, USFS and BLM. The largest area of contiguous designated wilderness in the continental U.S. is located in the central and south Sierra. No road crosses the Sierra for 200+ miles between the Tioga Pass Road in Yosemite National Park and the Sherman Pass forest highway, just south of the Golden Trout Wilderness on the Sequoia National Forest.
Thanks to all that have wished me good health. I'm going to continue to fight this crap.
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scottyhetzel
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Nice report Fred,,,keep fighting!!!! We (RR) need you and your reports....
AZDon
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Postal Inspectors
Postal Inspectors don't just respond to Post Offices, Inspectors they are federal agents and routinely respond to mail thefts, Postal burglaries, robberies of carriers, suspicious parcels which may contain contraband ie drugs, bombs, kiddie pornography, hazardous materials such as anthrax, poisons and toxins and they also concentrate heavily on mail fraud. Inspectors are on the road daily investigating their cases. In the Los Angeles area they have more than 5 repeaters, located at major sites and many receivers. Repeaters are located in Palmdale, Victorville and 3 in the Los Angeles metro area. The repeaters are actually simulcast on the same frequency, those five repeaters are also linked to repeaters in San Diego and others along the Mexico border all the way to Yuma AZ. Daily Inspectors are interviewing suspects, witnesses. victims, serving subpoenas and warrants. Don't confuse the Postal Inspectors with the Postal Police, Inspectors are federal law enforcement agents, while the Postal Police have very limited scope and authority. Regardless they just don't respond to Post Offices!
Their portable and mobile radios are programmed to operate on any Inspection Service radio system throughout the country. Many cities throughout the country have radio coverage of 100 miles or more and are linked via dedicated phone lines to repeaters where they have remote domiciles and or special needs to have radio communications. Portable repeaters can be deployed anywhere linked to any system they choose. Their in house highly trained radio techs travel far and wide in support of their radio systems, these guys are good! Their interoperability program is significant having all the lights bells and whistles they need to get the job done anywhere. The Postal Inspection Service is the oldest federal law enforcement agency (not the US Marshalls or the FBI) dating back to Benjamin Franklin days, too bad we cant monitor them any longer because they work some pretty interesting cases. Hi to Jeff and Dave, know you read this.
Postal Inspectors don't just respond to Post Offices, Inspectors they are federal agents and routinely respond to mail thefts, Postal burglaries, robberies of carriers, suspicious parcels which may contain contraband ie drugs, bombs, kiddie pornography, hazardous materials such as anthrax, poisons and toxins and they also concentrate heavily on mail fraud. Inspectors are on the road daily investigating their cases. In the Los Angeles area they have more than 5 repeaters, located at major sites and many receivers. Repeaters are located in Palmdale, Victorville and 3 in the Los Angeles metro area. The repeaters are actually simulcast on the same frequency, those five repeaters are also linked to repeaters in San Diego and others along the Mexico border all the way to Yuma AZ. Daily Inspectors are interviewing suspects, witnesses. victims, serving subpoenas and warrants. Don't confuse the Postal Inspectors with the Postal Police, Inspectors are federal law enforcement agents, while the Postal Police have very limited scope and authority. Regardless they just don't respond to Post Offices!
Their portable and mobile radios are programmed to operate on any Inspection Service radio system throughout the country. Many cities throughout the country have radio coverage of 100 miles or more and are linked via dedicated phone lines to repeaters where they have remote domiciles and or special needs to have radio communications. Portable repeaters can be deployed anywhere linked to any system they choose. Their in house highly trained radio techs travel far and wide in support of their radio systems, these guys are good! Their interoperability program is significant having all the lights bells and whistles they need to get the job done anywhere. The Postal Inspection Service is the oldest federal law enforcement agency (not the US Marshalls or the FBI) dating back to Benjamin Franklin days, too bad we cant monitor them any longer because they work some pretty interesting cases. Hi to Jeff and Dave, know you read this.
ecps92
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Over the years, Yes many
Try and get more info
Analog ? or Digital ?
Then PL/DPL or NAC
See if you hear them regularly or during a UHF Band Openning
Try and get more info
Analog ? or Digital ?
Then PL/DPL or NAC
See if you hear them regularly or during a UHF Band Openning
ecps92
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What Freq was $204 heard on ??
There are a few different users out there, but the freq varies
There are a few different users out there, but the freq varies
Was at RDU airport in Raleigh NC doing some federal band searches today, came across a hospital on two frequencies using P25 radios with Nac of 352 (according to my scanner). Didn't see them listed on the list in RR wiki list. Frequencies were 408.2375 and 410.325 and used for in-hospital patient transport and maintenance.
Anyone have any ideas?
Anyone have any ideas?
My first thought is VA Hospital Freqs. Yes, They have 800Mhz Talkgroups on both
the VIPER and Durham systems but those talkgroups are usually security only.
Will load them up in the Unity XG-100 and see if I can't get an ID.
Marshall KE4ZNR
For the past few months I have been getting hits on freq. 171.1875 and 172.7125 with a NAC of B10. They only ever say a few words like "you got him" "Everyone ready" things like that or it is ENCed. Anyone have a clue?
ecps92
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408.2375 is generally used by those VA Hospitals that are using UHF
410.3250 had been reported before (2012) but never tracked down to the actual Site location
North Carolina - Locations
410.3250 had been reported before (2012) but never tracked down to the actual Site location
North Carolina - Locations
PAGANC412912
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171.4375 & 171.7625 both with NAC 173 in Pittsburgh. Finally heard without encryption and they stated HSI Net. They were working with DEA. This channel is listed in the DB as DEA Pittsburgh but on those frequencies they said they were gonna jump over to the DEA Channel. Another note is this is pittsburgh and they were in Philadelphia and i heard them.
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