Thursday, November 6, 2008

Marine Corps Marathon Wrap-Up

Here's what I found at the Marine Corps Marathon on October 26:

Marine Corps Talkgroups (Site 403):
32380 Buses to Ft. Myer
63034 doing countdown; "need med team"
63036 Organizers?
63038 Course
63039 Water
63040 Race Tail Ops?
63041 Logistics (collecting tables, set-up, take-down, etc.)
63043 Unknown
63044 "supplies secure"; "bus"; Medical??
63049 Encrypted
63054 Security?
63056 Medical

Arlington Police used numerous talkgroups on their Project 25 trunked system. 1C (traffic posts), 1D (traffic posts, "Division 2"), 1F, 1G, 1H, 1I ("Division 3", Rosslyn), 1J, and 1K were all in use. Talkgroup 20 (unknown channel designation) had SWAT units on it. Talkgroup 21 (unknown channel designation) had K9 units on it.

Arlington Fire used talkgroups A1F (primary), A1G, and A1D (used later in race as medical calls increased).

Street cleaners in Arlington used talkgroup 82.

MPD used talkgroup 21232 (Citywide 2) for traffic control. DCFD used talkgroups A11 (Special Events 1) and A12 (Special Events 2) for medical calls.

Metro Transit Police used Tac 8 for crowd control. Buses were heard on talkgroup 1904.

Virginia State Police used 154.6650 [ CSQ] for traffic control. Park Police used 166.7250 [127.3] for traffic control. Helicopters coordinated air-to-air ops on 123.0250. Crystal City security used 451.7750 [ d205]. Amateur radio operators used 145.1900 [151.4] (R) and 449.9750 [107.2] (R). Unknown users were on 163.1000 [NAC 167] talking about the race.

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