[CW] The FBI CW Radio Network

[Richard Knoppow]

    Its a vague memory but I think there were several state 
police radio networks in the U.S. AFAIK these were voice but 
there may well have been some CW. There were state and interstate 
Teletype networks but these were wire. There is considerable 
history to the police use of radio. Many departments were 
resistant to it at first.

On 6/9/2021 6:52 AM, Benny K5KV wrote:
> A DEAR FRIEND JACK W5HEZ, NOW A SILENT KEY OPERATED A CW RADIO 
> STATION FOR THE BATON ROUGE, LA POLICE DEPT BEGINNING IN 1937 
> UNTIL THE WAR BROKE OUT.  HE TOLD ME OF SOME KIND OF WIDE AREA 
> POLICE NETWORK THEY WERE OPERATING IN.  MAYBE THIS WAS A FBI 
> NETWORK?
>
> 73
> BENNY K5KV
>
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 8:03 AM Bill Lanahan <wa2nfn at gmail.com 
> <mailto:wa2nfn at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 1:14 AM D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
>     <n1ea at arrl.net <mailto:n1ea at arrl.net>> wrote:
>
>         Interesting.........the FBI was operating CW nets
>         starting in 1942.....
>
>
>           The FBI CW Radio Network
>
>         *by Alvin H. Grobmeier*
>
>         The Federal Bureau of Investigation operated the FBI CW
>         Radio Network beginning in early 1957 and ending in
>         June 1976.
>
>         There were two sites, one for transmitting and one for
>         receiving usually located several miles apart.
>         Locations were as follows:
>
>           * Albany
>           * Albuquerque
>           * Anchorage
>           * Atlanta
>           * Baltimore
>           * Birmingham
>           * Boston
>           * Buffalo
>           * Boston
>           * Buffalo
>           * Butte
>           * Charlotte
>           * Chicago
>           * Cincinnati
>           * Cleveland
>           * Columbia
>           * Dallas
>           * Denver
>           * Detroit
>           * El Paso
>           * Honolulu
>           * Houston
>           * Indianapolis
>           * Jackson
>           * Jacksonville
>           * Kansas City
>           * Knoxville
>           * Las Vegas
>           * Litttle Rock
>           * Louisville
>           * Memphis
>           * Miami
>           * Milwaukee
>           * Minneapolis
>           * Mobile
>           * Newark
>           * New Haven
>           * New Orleans
>           * New York
>           * Norfolk
>           * Oklahoma City
>           * Omaha
>           * Philadelphia
>           * Phoenix
>           * Pittsburgh
>           * Portland
>           * Ramona (for the San Diego FBI office)
>           * Richmond
>           * Sacramento
>           * St. Louis
>           * Salt Lake City
>           * San Antonio
>           * San Francisco
>           * San Juan
>           * Savannah
>           * Seattle
>           * Springfield
>           * Tampa
>           * FBI Washington, DC field office
>           * FBI Headquarters, Washington, DC.
>
>         Radio call signs were assigned by the Federal
>         Communications Commission. The Ramona/San Diego station
>         was asssigned the call sign KMG 22.
>
>         Source: United States Department of Justice, Federal
>         Bureau of Investigation, letter of February 14, 1979 to
>         Commander A.H. Grobmeier, US Navy (Ret.)
>
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