[MilCom] TRUEX Notes; 31 July 2005

[Ken]

Hello Mac & the group:

Has anyone been close enough to see what radios the actual Marines on the 
ground are using?  My understanding is
the USMC is going to a new spread spectrum radio in the 2.4 ghz + area, 
duplex capable with a small repeater close by.  I know initally they were 
using the government FRS radios (14 channels) but I think this new system 
has 256 channel capabilitiy, etc...   See 
http://www.swatheadsets.com/PDFs/PRR_article.pdf

There also were some others I saw for Fire Department use that actual had 
the capability to plug into a higher power tactical  portable/mobile radio 
so that the "on scene" folks could coordinate with others at a greater 
distance...

Ken

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mac McCormick III" <kf4lmt at comcast.net>
To: "ScanSavannah" <scansavannah at yahoogroups.com>; "Flacom" 
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Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 12:20 AM
Subject: [MilCom] TRUEX Notes; 31 July 2005


> Tonight made for very thrilling monitoring.  Somewhere in
> westside Savannah, not too far from Savannah IAP, the
> 22nd MEU raided an objective with air support from HMM-261 Reinforced.

snip...snip..
>     149.0375    CRTC; 22nd MEU Visiting Unit
>     -??????? CONTROL wkg BASE