Monday, May 19, 2008

Marine Corps Historic Half Marathon

Here what I found yesterday at the MC Historic Half in Fredericksburg:

Temporary Trunked System (System ID: 335 Site: 101 WACN: BEE0A):

386.0250, 386.1750, 386.3250, 386.4750, 386.6250, 386.7750, 388.5250*

5019 Organizers (encrypted)
5020 Organizers (encrypted)
5021 Organizers (encrypted)
5022 Organizers (encrypted)
5023 Organizers (encrypted)
5025 Organizers (encrypted)

146.4900 [ CSQ] Amateur Radio Support
155.9250 [131.8] Fredericksburg Police Tac (street closures)
158.8350 [203.5] Fredericksburg Fire Channel 2 (medical, bike teams, etc.)
451.3500 [ d143] Organizers (S)
463.7000 [ d152] Organizers (Channel 4) (S)

The temp P25 trunked system was a surprise, since the MC has a site right in the Fredericksburg area that I thought they'd be using. This trunked system has never been seen before. (The System ID is not listed in RadioReference.) The system was very low power. Maybe it's a new military system that will be transported around the region/country for special events...? Unfortunately, all transmissions were encrypted.

As noted in the list above, two UHF biz-band frequencies used by race organizers were also found. These may have been used by some kind of race-event production company that was assisting the Marines in running the Historic Half.

1 comment:

Eric said...

Could you go ahead and add this on radioreference.com so we can track it? It might be a mobile site used for special events and/or disaster recovery, who knows?