NFL Draft - Las Vegas
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Mike-KC8OWL
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There are many UHF frequencies that have been licensed in the last few weeks related to the draft. Some are licensed to the NFL and some to other local comms companies. Majority appear to be 4 Watt (hand held / simplex) registrations / some higher powered also - maybe a temp repeater. I'm not close enough to the strip to receive most of that - and I'm not going anywhere near there this weekend.
Here are a few call signs to monitor
WNVC418
WQPL815
WQOX901
Here are a few call signs to monitor
WNVC418
WQPL815
WQOX901
Mike-KC8OWL
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Clark County Fire TAC 409 (TG 2651) TAC 410 (TG 2653) on SNACC system seem to be where all the strip activity is being handled.
Hooligan
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You gave callsigns for the Venetian Expo & Convention Center, NFL, LV Raiders Allegiant Field radios, and the Defcon event organizers, only WQPL815 somewhat related to the draft. I wish you'd provided those you claim to have been licensed for NFL Draft operations.
Not a high interest for me, but I did do some NFL Draft fishing. Below is email I sent to friends, sanitized of some federal stuff & my favorite fishing hole location(s).
**************
Close-Call hit on ********* while I was on Sahara Blvd at Maryland Parkway
( 36.144282175122996, -115.1367661436562 ), several miles away from the NFL Draft stuff. I *assume* it was the repeater output, not talk-around. If talk-around, maybe I passed near their staging area, though I didn't notice anything. Most likely, it was the repeater. The closest tall structures I saw were the Westgate Las Vegas resort/Casino, probably about 1 mile away, and the Strat, also about 1 mile away, but as I was approaching the far N end of the LV Strip, it certainly could have been on another tall building.
Traffic was in the clear, but minimal.
I parked on the rooftop deck of ******** parking structure, facing the LV Strip but on the backside of the Strip properties. The NFL Draft thing would have been around a half mile away, on the other side of the Bellagio, and the NFL Fan Experience thing would have been about 3/4 mile away, on the other side of LV Blvd & behind Bally's. I coulda probably gotten closer, but I didn't want to deal with traffic madness. As I pulled onto ***********, I got a Close Call hit on 851.7375 -- an EDACS data channel for the Nevada Shared Radio System site atop The Rio:
https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/Ul...eNumToReturn=1&keyLoc=14925248&licKey=1950141
Sat there in the ******* lot for about three hours, scanning & searching. Alas, nothing of major significance found.
************ -- about 20 seconds worth of comms heard during 3+ hours camping out on that freq. Something about an activity on/emanating from the roof of Caesar's Forum taking place at 9PM.
************ -- what's thought to be the LV FIB Special Operations Group repeater, two transmissions, encrypted, for a total of about 30 second air-time.
************* -- seems to be another DHS-HSI LV area high-profile repeater. The known ones on ********* ************* were kerchunking and this one was doing-so in-sync with them. Nothing heard on the alleged ******** input. With ********** known to be on ********** & *********** suspected of being on **********, the logical high-profile location for ********* would be **********, as with those three locations you pretty much get full Southern Nevada coverage & even into CA/AZ.
********** P25 kerchunks. It's been caught in the past. Not a strong signal at my location. Didn't catch the NAC this time, but in the past I logged 167.
157.500 -- "I'm trying to find him, so I can drop this car." Only heard the one side, simplex or repeater input. Obviously sounded like a tow truck but maybe one of those 'buy a car on-line & have it delivered to your door!' services. No CTCSS/DCS. Old, expired tow truck company was once licensed for the freq:
https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=1910985
154.515/DCS411 -- Our beloved Spearmint Rhino https://spearmintrhinolv.com/ relatively high-profile repeater! I know you pervs have this as a priority channel in your VEGAS BABY codeplugs, just make sure you've got the correct DCS, as they've changed it in the past, and my list still reflected the old one. They usually have a dress-code (no gang/club 'colors,' no sports team jerseys, etc.) but the manager reminded everyone that due to the NFL Draft thing taking place, sports team jerseys would be temporarily allowed.
Broadcast media IFBs/STLs/Production Intercoms:
Analog -- 450.0125 & 450.0375, 450.425/151.4, 450.525/151.4 (engineers, talking about switching transmitters), 450.2875 (speech inversion), 450.650 & 450.700, 450.550/146.2 (local KLAS TV8), 450.750, 450.850/110.9, 450.875, 450.925/151.4, 470.050/82.5 (dead carrier), 470.125 (local KLAS TV8 audio)
Digital (sounds like a Motorola TRS data channel): 450.025, 450.1125, 450.1875, 450.3375, 450.675, 450.725, 450.775, 450.8875, 450.9375, 450.950, 450.9875
Alas, searching 138-220 & 406-512MHz with a focus on 162-174, the above is all I found related to the event, besides a few local SNACC Talk Groups used for EMS Command, etc. that I found while occasionally scanning the usual, known systems.
I expect that the NFL may have leased a bunch of channels on an 800 or 900MHz ESMR to coordinate stuff, but I didn't search there. Maybe I will tonight or tomorrow, as the NFL Draft Week Fan Experience continues until tomorrow night.
I assume 'the good stuff' was on the encrypted LVMPD 700MHz TRS, including any FLEA participation, though FLEAs & whoever may also have been using FirstNet/POC. What they clearly were not using as a Primary comms system was standard analog or digital VHF/UHF LMR...
If close-enough with either a mobile or handheld transmitter, an immature twit could have had a lot of fun intruding on & over-riding some of the IFBs, more-fun if some were actually STLs. Can you imagine watching the Draft crap live on ESPN and that dumb woke mofo roger gooddell when talking about your local NFL football team, you (and the rest of the world watching ESPN) hear *your full name & home town* come across the audio as their first pick?
Your humble reporter,
/-/ooligan
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The "dude" abides. Nice to see you back, Hooligan.
In talking with people from convention/visitor authority, it seems that the draft fell somewhat flat of projections in terms of attendance. I know several strip venues were prepared for anything, but nothing really came out of the ordinary.
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