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How does that antenna do?

Looks like it is not good for 800.

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Any idea as to what this could be CP? I have 3CE and 4CE NACs up this way... 3CE is NPS and 4CE is USFS. (The 4CE user is relatively new... I found that on my last VHF NAC search...)

The 163.125 $4CE is what used to be the Hoover Dam Police. The frequency seems to be either conventional or a link to the Department of the Interior trunked system that covers the Hoover Dam area.

- CP

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The Air Antenna is pretty good. It does very well on VHF & UHF aircraft as well as VHF & UHF land mobile. I haven't tried it much on 700/800 MHz, so I can't speak to it's capabilities there.

The big selling point is obviously the portability. I can set up this fairly large antenna and then roll it up into a nice, small pouch for travel.

- CP

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New capture for today - WESS (Whelen Event Security Service) - 460.4000, D145. No license found.

- CP

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Stayed at Sunset Station for a week:

936.1500
936.6875
938.1375
938.6750

All CC 9

LCNs: Choose your own adventure

Talkgroups (Quotes indicate the specific channel name as spoken by users when calling)

1- SECURITY/SURVEILLANCE ACCESS?

3- SECURITY RELATED, MAYBE CONTRACT SECURITY VS IN-HOUSE?

4- SECURITY TAC?

5- "ENGINEERING"

7- SLOT ATTENDANTS

9- SLOT TECHNICIANS "SLOT TECH"

17- "VALET"

19- UNKNOWN- A GUEST'S HOME THEATRE WASN'T WORKING AND SOMEONE WAS GOING TO CALL IT ABOUT IT

21- UNKNOWN

22- "POOL"

32- "BOWLING"

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Don't feel bad if you can't use your STD100/200; there are still people using Digital Frequency Search!
Bunnery definition for the under-fives

151.520 (CC-5/S-1/TG-1) OLIN CHLOR ALKALI PLANT- SECURITY

151.520 (CC-5/S-2/TG-1) OLIN CHLOR ALKALI PLANT- TRUCKS

162.975 FBI LV INPUT TO 170.625

163.1125 ($169) CBP

163.650 ($167) FBI INPUT TO 170.6625

163.700 ($169) ICE ENC

163.725 ($169) ICE

163.8125 ($167) FBI LV UNK

163.9875 ($167) FBI INPUT

166.7875 ($293) WAPA POWER LINE PATROL (HELOS)

166.8875 ($293) CBP GROUND UNITS DRIVING THROUGH VEGAS

167.2625 ($167) FBI LV

167.3625 ($167) FBI LV

167.4375 ($167) FBI LV ENC

167.5375 ($167) FBI LV RADIO CHECKS

167.6625 ($167) FBI LV

168.8375 ($293) CBP AIR UNITS

168.9625 ($293) CBP AIR UNITS

169.2625 ($293) CBP AIR UNITS

169.9125 ($300) HSI SURVEILLANCE

170.100 ($300) HSI WITH 169.9125

170.625 ($167) FBI LV

170.6625 ($167) FBI LV

170.750 ($293) USMS COURTHOUSE SECURITY

170.800 ($293) USMS SURVEILLANCE

170.875 ($167) FBI LV

173.0125 ($650) ATF ENC ONLY

173.675 ($47C) BLM? 016 CLG 700 ON GASS PEAK FOR RADIO CHECK

Also, attached audio is from a 0400 hours FBI raid. Another reason I dislike IWN.

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Don't feel bad if you can't use your STD100/200; there are still people using Digital Frequency Search!
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Doing a consolidated Reply due to Two outstanding postings
where some questions/confirmatons got answered by the other person :)

Makes me long for a nice Vacation away from working Remote Desk Top

162.8500 $167 FBI RID 325xxxx
Should be the input to 167.3625


163.0000 $196 TSA Input RID 764xxx
input to ??

163.1125 ($169) CBP
Simplex? or input to 170.7875? for ICE NAT Tac 3 Rptr

163.1250 $4CE ALWAYS TG 10636, RID 1
BoR - Hoover Dam - patch to/from NPS ?

163.2125 $100 RID 5831419
IRS Tac 1

163.3375 $47C RID 1
BLM LE Net input to 173.6750

163.6500 $167 FBI RID 325xxxx
163.650 ($167) FBI INPUT TO 170.6625
Nice match up for the in/out



163.7000 $169 ICE NAT TAC RID 325xxxx, 520xxxx, 628xxxx
163.7000 ($169) ICE ENC
NAT Tac 1



163.7125 114.8 SIMPLEX CHAT ABOUT DRIVING THRU LV, SOUTH TO LA
USFS IntraCrew - PL Varies by who programmed it but supposed to be CSQ

163.725 ($169) ICE
ICE NAT Dir


163.8125 $167 FBI RID 325xxxx
163.8125 ($167) FBI LV UNK
input to 167.6625


163.8625 $167 FBI RID 325xxxx
WoW - blast from the past, did you hear 167.5375 ?
or just 8625 simplex ?

163.8875 $167 FBI RID 325xxxx
Couple of different reports as the input to
167.2625 and/or 167.7375

163.9625 $167 FBI RID 325xxxx
input to ??

163.9875 $167 FBI RID 325xxxx
163.9875 ($167) FBI INPUT
input to 167.4375


164.3500 WEAK ANALOG VOICE
New

164.4500 WEAK ANALOG VOICE
Had from 2012 USPS Transportation Ops

164.4750 110.9 USFS WEATHER
BLM input to 173.0500 Repeaters
110.9 would be Hayford

164.5000 123.0 USFS AIRCRAFT – ALSO 146.2 & 156.7 PLS
USFS Humboldt-Toiyabe NF input to 172.2750
123.0 Potosi
146.2 Angel
156.7 Charleston

164.7000 $68F RID 1, 15 – 38
BLM LE Net input to 170.6000
$68F likely Christmas Tree

165.0000 103.5 USFS? AIRCRAFT
New?

165.3750 $001 USSS CHARLIE RID 205013

165.4125 D754 EPA LAB MAINTENANCE

165.7250 $293 USMS FEDERAL COURTHOUSE TAC RID 8281036
CSO 1, input to 170.7500

165.7625

165.8250 $293 RID 3449006
USBP Tac-04 for the SW Region

166.2375 WEAK ANALOG VOICE
BLM likely input to 173.8250 Winnemuca District

166.2750 100.0 SIMPLEX TALKING ABOUT DRIVING THROUGH LV, EXITS, WHERE TO EAT
BLM?, USFWS?, BIA?, NPS? SO many options

166.3000 UNIT CODE 4 BOULDER HARBOR
BoR - Lake Meade

166.7250 146.2 WEAK ANALOG, MAY BE FIRE RELATED
NIFC Tac-04

166.7375 $314 RID 5172337, 5156802
$314 on this channel has been heard in:
TX [Hurricane Harvey]
CA [Santa Clara 2016 Super Bowl]

166.7625 ANALOG HELICOPTER
BLM Vegas District - Air/Ground 23 [Primary]

166.7875 ($293) WAPA POWER LINE PATROL (HELOS)


166.8000 ANALOG VOICE WEAK
Air/Ground 06 used by BLM and USFS in NV

166.8875 ($293) CBP GROUND UNITS DRIVING THROUGH VEGAS
CBP Air 7 - generally not used in NV/AZ as also BLM Tac 4


167.0500 ANALOG KEY UP, NO VOICE
IS the FCC still using Analog :)

167.1500 107.2 ANALOG VOICE
NPS LE Net - Boulder Beach input to 170.0600

167.2625 $167 FBI RID 325xxxx
167.2625 ($167) FBI LV
input should be 163.8875 (A-01) Mandalay Bay Repeater

167.3625 $167 FBI RID 325xxxx
167.3625 ($167) FBI LV
input should be 162.8500

167.4375 $167 FBI RID 325xxxx
167.4375 ($167) FBI LV ENC
input should be 163.9875

167.5375 $167 FBI RID 325xxxx
167.5375 ($167) FBI LV RADIO CHECKS
Oldie but Goodie - must have been a nice Op to listen to

167.6625 $167 FBI RID 325xxxx
167.6625 ($167) FBI LV
input should be 163.8125

167.6875 $167 FBI RID 325xxxx
input should be 163.7000

167.7125 $167 FBI RID 325xxxx
Unk input

167.8625 CSQ VA MEDCIAL PAGING
Amazing it is still there, and at other VA's

167.8875 ANALOG VOICE
NIFC A/G 48 ??

167.9000 ANALOG TRAFFIC WEAK
NIFC A/G 38 ??

168.2000 146.2 ANALOG VOICE – FIRE RELATED
NIFC Tac-2 PL varies by who programmed it

168.4000 ANALOG VOICE – FIRE RELATED
NIFC Command 4 input to 166.6125

168.8375 ($293) CBP AIR UNITS
CBP Air 1

168.5875 $169 ICE NAT TAC RID 6284133
NAT TAC 2

168.6125 ANALOG VOICE
NIFC/USFS etc Travel channel aka Common 1
Also used as a Work Channel in some forests

168.6500 110.9 ANALOG VOICE WEAK
BLM - Flight Following and Air Tanker Base channel

168.6750 ANALOG VOICE WEAK – FIRE RELATED
AZ ?? USFS Region 3 Tac 2

168.7750 131.8 SIMPLEX ANALOG
BLM/USFS Region 4 Scene of Attack [SOA]

168.9250 WEAK ANALOG VOICE
Nothing in my notes for the Southwest, beyond Texas for Analog
CA [Los Angeles] has a couple of P25 users on this

168.9625 ($293) CBP AIR UNITS
CBP Air 2

169.2625 ($293) CBP AIR UNITS
CBP Air 3

169.9125 ($300) HSI SURVEILLANCE
ICE Angel Peak Repeater
likely 162.9250 input

170.0500 CSQ LAKE MEAD NRA
Boulder Beach Repeater ?

170.1000 ($300) HSI WITH 169.9125
ICE Red Mountain Repeater
likely 162.9250 input

170.4750 110.9 REFERENCE TO RANGERS
Toiyabe NF Repeater input ?? Mahogany Repeater

170.6000 $68F RID 1, 15, 20
BLM LE Net, output was reported to be all $3E8
but guess it passes the input NAC :)

170.6250 $167 FBI RID 325xxxx
170.6250 ($167) FBI LV
input should be 162.9750

170.6625 $167 FBI RID 325xxxx
170.6625 ($167) FBI LV
should be 163.6500 input

170.7250 $293 USMS FEDERAL COURTHOUSE SECURITY RID 828xxxx
Chris Typo ? should be 170.7500 for CSO 1

170.750 ($293) USMS COURTHOUSE SECURITY
Likely CSO-1 if using 165.7250 as the onput


170.8000 $293 RID 828, 805, 883 REF COMM CENTER
170.8000 ($293) USMS SURVEILLANCE
US Marshals - simplex or 162.7125 input?
Also, altho 170.8000 has been reported as the Federal Court Houses
in the past, it is not part of the Official CSO-1 thru CSO-10 Repeater Pairs

170.8750 ($167) FBI LV
Anyone ever find the input ?

171.4750 103.5 WEAK ANALOG – FIRE RELATED
Humboldt NF - Repeater[s]
old Network, inputs should be 172.2250

172.2750 ANAOG – REPEATER?
Humboldt-Toiyabe NF Repeater[s]
input should be 164.5000

172.6000 $064 RID 216 CLEAR VOICE!
Lake Meade NRA?? Also heard Phoenix Super Bowl 2015

172.7500 146.2 ANALOG
BLM TAC 3 PL varies by Office who programmed them
Also used by Elko District as a Flight Following, different PL

172.8750 $293 FAA ENC
Ch.05, and likely still using 169.2750 input
as is Boston MA

172.9000 $196 TSA @ LAS RID 760xxx, 764xxx
still using 163.8500 input ?

173.0125 ($650) ATF ENC ONLY
We recently had one of these Tactical Repeaters put up on Cape Cod
turns out the VZ Tech for the control line is a FEDCOM monitor :)
and BATFE was so kind to ensure proper labels were on the Repeater
$650 out, but $65A as the input using 167.1625

173.0500 114.8
BLM Repeater[s]

173.6250 79.7 WEAK ANALOG
BLM Hotshots TAC 4 - PL Varies by Crew[s]

173.675 ($47C) BLM? 016 CLG 700 ON GASS PEAK FOR RADIO CHECK
Should be BLM LE Net with 163.3375 as the input

ONLY NON-NELLIS/NTTR UHF TRAFFIC SO FAR:

406.3375 $482 US POSTAL INSPECTORS RID 110xxxx, 871xxxx, 873xxxx
406.9375 DMR USPS COLOR CODE 1 – TALK GROUPS 1 & 2 ONLY
407.9375 DMR USPS COLOR CODE 1 – TALK GROUP 3 ONLY
409.4000 $940 FEDERAL PROTECTIVE SERVICE, RID 673xxxx, 675xxxx

One of those DMR was originally thought to be a VA, glad to hear NOT !


Both of you stay Safe and in your bubbles, which one is Travolta ?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074236/

Yes, 170.725 should be 170.7500

- CP

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Chris Parris
Federal Wavelengths columnist
The Spectrum Monitor Magazine
chrisparris@thefedfiles.com

Back to Vegas last week:

461.875 (CC-7) TG 101- Downtown Summerlin security

464.625 (CC-8) TG 103- Downtown Summerlin Engineering

464.625 (CC-8) TG 104- Downtown Summerlin unknown- only chat

Red Rock Resort hotel and spa Capacity+ TRS:

936.1875 (CC-15)
937.7250 (CC-15)
939.3875 (CC-15)
939.6375 (CC-15)
939.9375 (CC-15)

LCNs: Choose your own adventure

1- Outside security/COVID-19 temperature screeners at entrances

2- Security inside

5- Engineering

7- Slot Attendants

9- Slot technicians

12- Hotel housekeeping

14- Casino/outside housekeeping

17- Bell Desk/Valet

22- Pools

26- Unknown, just kitchen noises over chat

32- Bowling alley

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President-in-Exile, Seattle Area Radio Communications And Scanner Traffic Intercept Crew (SARCASTIC)
Don't feel bad if you can't use your STD100/200; there are still people using Digital Frequency Search!
Bunnery definition for the under-fives

Just FYI, I'm hearing them active recently up in the Seattle area. RIDs here are 647xxxx. I've logged (8) unique RIDs under that prefix. Seems to be ENC most of the time but probably 75% for now...

Just back from an overnight in Vegas, add TGID 19 to the Red Rock Resort list. Only traffic was someone asking if Jason was on that channel.

Apparently he was not.

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President-in-Exile, Seattle Area Radio Communications And Scanner Traffic Intercept Crew (SARCASTIC)
Don't feel bad if you can't use your STD100/200; there are still people using Digital Frequency Search!
Bunnery definition for the under-fives

Sat around on my ass Saturday (20 April) night and then around 10PM, I decided I might as well go do some fishing in Vegas. It was the last night of the NFL Draft thing (held in Vegas), plus tourism has been way-up over the past month or tow, so I knew that night would be a very good night for fishing, as most of my specific & general targets should be very busy, thus theoretically, busy on the radio freqs too. And the weather was nice enough to plan on sitting stationary in my car for a couple hours.

I arrived alongside Fremont Street Experience around 10:30PM, parking on a street running parallel, one block N & combined scanning the various licensed freqs of targets as well as doing some searching, and scanning BRS.MURS/FRS on another radio.

A lot of the big stuff is already known -- FSE, the hotels/casinos, etc. what I was mostly interested in was simplex, low-power, bar/club security/ops, etc. & for such a busy night, I really didn't find a lot over the couple hours I sat there like the radio-geek that I am...

462.7875/123.0 – Security/Operations channel for Gold Spike's “Oasis” nightclub S. Unlicensed, or possibly WRAW817 or WRFD290 https://goldspike.com/


Funny story: Clay & I went there with some other people a couple years ago. Short line to get in, but the bouncer spots me and politely says "Sir, I'm not going to be able to allow you in with that!" as he points to my waistline. I'm thinking "Damn, this guy is *good* -- he somehow spotted my gat!" but then he continues with "If you can leave that pocket knife back if your hotel room or vehicle or something, then come-on back to the front of the line!" Dude had noticed the clip of the pocket-knife clipped into my pants pocket, & was referring to it. So I jogged back to my car a block away, ditched the folding knife, then jogged back to the Gold Spike Oasis entry point., Bouncer remembered me, let me come to the front of the line, and in I walked, with a concealed Springfield Armory XDm 3.8 with 20+1...

462.6375/123.0 -- Gold Spike's Oasis nightclub "Porters" & EVS channel (channel 7). FRS channel 4.

Only due to the CTCCS, the below many be related to Gold Spike:

462.6625/123.0 -- "Can we get some water down to the cashier?" FRS channel 5.

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I "strapped-up" & walked around for a little while, though the people-watching from the car over the past couple hours had already made me somewhat depressed. The FSE area was packed. 6 fat, ugly chicks & 4 plain chicks for every 1 cutie. Both the fatties and the cuties wearing tight, revealing clothes that almost seem to scream “rape me” just like leaving a new corvette convertible running unattended on an urban street implies “steal me!” so it was actually the plain chicks that were the most alluring.

And with the cute women, it was depressing to consider that most were under half my age. Everything in the area reeks of marijuana, and by around 2AM, the majority of the people you see out & about look, sound & smell like they’re visitors from Southern California ghettos, plus homeless and some locals appearing to just be hanging-out, looking for trouble.

More and more these days, hitting the LV Strip & FSE is tantamount to visiting a zoo — weird sights & sounds, primitive behavior with a sense of danger, and some unpleasant smells. It still sucks to get old, but I’m glad I’m not part of that crowd. Also glad that occasionally I do jump into that fetid sea of inhumanity while I can (the nursing homes don’t exactly have shuttle buses running to those areas), but each time I do, my tolerance for the environment gets shorter, and it’s a reminder that I belong at home with the dogs most of the time. Bah, Humbug!

I left the FSE area around 1AM & headed to the new Peppermint Hippo strip club a few miles away on Las Vegas Blvd. As a brand-new strip club, WilRobinson had been pestering the hell out of me to scout the place out for him -- he likes skanks, not nubile young hotties, and hates putting on his Zoot Suit & playing the cover charge to get in, then discover the women aren't "thicc," so I parked within LOS of the employee entrance door & took the requested video for him before I focused on my radio geekery.

Sat there for about 30 minutes but only one of their WRPV681 licensed freqs was ever heard operational:

461.675/179.9 Simplex -- Peppermint Hippo Ops. WRPV681


Next, I headed back to AREA 15, with collocated MEOW WOLF and the new Illuminarium. Sat there Thursday after leaving the NFL Draft, but only a couple freqs were active then. I figured late on a Saturday night/early Sunday morning, the place would be packed, and thus more radio-activity. Sat in the lot for about 30 minutes, but only a couple already-known radio freqs were active, and numerous radio freqs of theirs previously heard were actually quiet. Weird...


Having done the most recent firmware update for my 5 Unident 996P2s did seem to help with simplex DMR reception, plus I was as close-enough to where I just don't think the freqs were active, versus the Unidont having poor DMR sensitivity.

One other FOI. When I first came across it while searching from home, it was clear it was a large, sports venue ("visiting team lockers," "Laundry room" "alternate box-office" "Executive suites" "Section 107, row 23, seat 17" et al) I got excited thinking it was LV Raiders, either their HQ/Training Camp (about 8 miles from my home but with a small ridgeline in-between) or the Allegiant Stadium (about 14 miles, partially LOS) because it is an NFL licensed freq for LV (WQPL815) though licensed for low-power. Further listening over-time suggests it's WQUM323:

463.5625 DMR CC1 TS2 TG200: Las Vegas Ballpark (LV Aviators baseball stadium) Guest Services. R RIDs 3045, CC1 TS2 TG 201 – Security ops. R. Most traffic seems to be on this frequency, yet sometimes only one side of the conversation is heard, thus possibly a Cap+ system though my unidents do not indicate so. WQUM323 https://www.thelvballpark.com/