[CW] The FBI CW Radio Network

[Jude DaShiell]

Before I left Maryland it was possible to listen on the scanner radios and
hear cw broadcasted over the air.  That was in addition to voice.  I was
in Maryland from 1995 to 2013 if memory serves.


On Wed, 9 Jun 2021, Richard Knoppow wrote:

>    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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