The United States Secret Service is best known for their mission of protecting the leaders of the most powerful nation on Earth. When they aren't tasked to protecting the physical well being of the leaders of state, they are busy behind the scenes defending the economic machine.

US Secret Service Mission Statement
The United States Secret Service is mandated by statute and executive order to carry out two significant missions: protection and criminal investigations. The Secret Service protects the President and Vice President, their families, heads of state, and other designated individuals; investigates threats against these protectees; protects the White House, Vice President’s Residence, Foreign Missions, and other buildings within Washington, D.C.; and plans and implements security designs for designated National Special Security Events. The Secret Service also investigates violations of laws relating to counterfeiting of obligations and securities of the United States; financial crimes that include, but are not limited to, access device fraud, financial institution fraud, identity theft, computer fraud; and computer-based attacks on our nation’s financial, banking, and telecommunications infrastructure.

Presidential Visit Frequencies

Protecting the President Of The United States (POTUS) is the what the Secret Service is best known for. With that in mind, this list of commonly used frequencies has been placed at the top of this page.

The US Secret Service Presidential Protection Division (PPD), the folks who are paid to take a bullet, uses the "SNOW" channels when the President is in town.

166.5125 SIERRA (Simplex)  (P25 Digital Encrypted)
166.7000 NOVEMBER White House Staff (Encrypted)
164.8875 OSCAR Presidential Protection (Primary) (P25 Digital)
167.0250 WHISKEY Paging
The local US Secret Service Field Offices use the following frequencies.
165.7875 BAKER (P25 Digital)
165.3750 CHARLIE Command Post  (P25 Digital Encrypted)
164.6500 TANGO (P25 Digital Encrypted)
165.2125 MIKE Motorcade (P25 Digital Encrypted)
Local law enforcement use the following frequencies.
406.8000 103.5 NALEMARS UHF
155.4750 100.0 NALEMARS VHF

Even though the US Secret Service doesn't cut the pay checks for the folks protecting the President from high above, the following frequencies have been included to make this list complete.

The US Air Force and Air National Guard provide Combat Air Patrol (CAP) for the President where ever he goes. Notice To Airmen (NOTAM) alerts are published, giving pilots flying in the vicinity of the President detailed instructions on the areas to avoid.

The following frequencies can be quite exciting to monitor when a pilot, who forgot to check the NOTAMs before flight, ventures into the restricted air space. You will hear on these frequencies armed fighter jets refueling with air borne tankers, general chit chat between the pilots, conversations with NORAD and interceptions of aircraft intruding on the restricted air space.

271.0000 BLUE 15 (Talking with tankers and NORAD)
138.2250 VICTOR 12 (AM mode) (Air to air chit chat conversations)
121.5000 Guard VHF (Used to contact pilots intruding into restrict air space)
148.1250 NORAD Nationwide (AM mode)

U.S. Secret Service Radio Plan
Channel Description Frequency
Able WHCA Transportation  32.2300
Baker Field Offices/Escorts 165.7875
Charlie Field Offices Primary/Command post 165.3750
Delta WHCA vans/Phone Patch/Marine Service Detail 169.9250
Echo Airforce 1 Phone Patch Uplink 407.8500
Foxtrot Airforce 1 Phone Patch Downlink 415.7000
Golf Field Office 'Charlie' Repeater Input 166.4000
Hotel WHCA VP Staff/Garage 165.6875
Hotel Presidential Protection 166.2125
Hotel WHCA VP Staff/Garage 167.9000
India Presidential Protection 166.2000
India Presidential Protection 407.9250
Juliet Camp David Paging 170.0000
Kilo Phone Duplex 167.8250
Lima Phone Duplex 168.7875
Mike VIP Protection 165.2125
November Whitehouse Staff 166.7000
Oscar Presidential Protection (Primary) 164.8875
Papa Field Office/Whitehouse Partimeter Patrols 164.4000
Quebec White House Staff 166.7000
Romeo 'Xray' Repeater Input 166.4000
Sierra Whitehouse Staff/Pagers 166.5125
Tango Presidential Protection 164.6500
Uniform Airforce 1 Communications 165.0875
Uniform Airforce 1 Communications 361.6000
Victor Presidential Protection 164.1000
Whiskey Paging 167.0250
Xray Treasury Common 166.4625
Yankee Airforce 1 Phone Patch Uplink 162.6875
Zulu Airforce 1 Phone Patch Uplink 171.2875

White House Communications Agency
Channel Description Frequency  
Green Training division 415.7500 407.8750
Black Training division 415.1000 418.3250
Blue Training/protective support divisions 414.8000
Violet Training division 415.8750
Gray Protective support division 415.8000
Gold Communications division 415.6750 419.0750
Black Executive protection division 415.6750
Orange Executive protection division 414.9500
Tan Foreign Mission divisions 414.8500
Brown Uniformed division 414.8500 418.8000
Red Foreign Mission/Uniformed divisions 415.9750 419.7250
Silver Foreign Mission/Uniformed divisions 415.6500 419.1000
Gray Uniformed division 418.3500 407.7500
Orange Uniformed division 418.7750 414.9500
Yellow Uniformed/Technical security divisions 414.6750 418.1500
Green Technical security division 419.7250

Technical security division (special use)
Description Frequency
RF Alarm 1 408.0000
RF Alarm 2 411.0000
Tracker 1 408.5000
Tracker 2 408.9750
Wireless body microphone 406.2625
Wireless body microphone 407.8250
Wireless body microphone 407.8750
Wireless body microphone 407.9750

Presidential Nighthawk Aircraft Fleet (HMX)
Description Frequency
Helicopter ops/transport (primary)  46.7500
Helicopter ops (secondary)  46.7000
Helicopter ops (alternate)  46.8000
VIP transport net  34.3500
Transport 375.0000
Command post 142.7500
Squadron common 265.8000
Limousines (local-DC)(duplex) 407.8500
Limousines (local-DC)(duplex) 408.4500

AF1/2 Orderwire UHF (wideband FM)
(sidebands used for phone patches)
Uplink Downlink Description
382.3500 326.0000 F1
305.5500 246.9500  
336.8000 344.0000  
322.7500 366.0000  
397.0500 390.0000  
407.4750 415.8000 Nationwide-2 phone patch