IBET radio system for US border patrol and RCMP

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Is anyone familiar with the IBET radio system frequencies or what they are. It allows the us border patrol to communicate with RCMP over each others radio systems.
 

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Googling it turned up some information which suggests it's just a bunch of radios on each system to be linked that are all connected together.

There's a report on a recent border interoperability exercise that used one. They were able to link a talkgroup on the Michigan State system, US Customs, 2 UHF RCMP systems and Coast Guard all together. The system was deployed in a Snow Cat.
 

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So far i have read that they can communicate in the Swanton, Vermont sector with Quebec Provincial Police and RCMP and also in the Western part of the Country between Whatcom county border patrols in Washington State and the RCMP in British Columbia. Just be interesting to know with some of the encryption used on the different radio systems, that one could assume that for inoperability between radio systems, no encryption would be used so they could communicate easily. I may be wrong but just a guess. I would like if anyone had these International Border Communication Frequencies between agencies in Canada and United States and if they are encrypted or just plain Apco-25 or conventional or in a talkgroup, just as the one you mentioned mike in Michigan and SouthWestern Ontario.
 

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I believe they are just linking the systems together with a piece of hardware that contains a radio operating on each system to be linked. Other then the system frequencies, I don't believe there's any specific link frequencies used.

The RCMP continues to operate on the RCMP system and a radio programmed up with the RCMP system receives their signal. Interconnected to that radio is another radio (or radios) that operates on the system they wish to link to. In the Michigan case, that would be a radio programmed up to operate on a specific talkgroup of the system.

Chances are that it's much more complicated then that. Some sort of microprocessor control of each radio's transmit function along with an audio switch to route the audio to the required radios would be required. I'm sure it's all computer controlled.

For a permanent installation, they would probably place it at a convenient tower site with remote links to each facilities dispatch department.

There's probably some interop frequencies as well but the IBET system seems to just be an interconnect between the various systems.
 
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