US Secret Service (USSS)
From Freq Of Nature
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.
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.
VIP Protection
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.
Contrary to popular radio monitoring urban legend, much of the transmissions over these few VHF radio channels are not encrypted. However, most all transmissions use the P25 digital protocol so you will most likely need a P25 capable receiver. For my fellow American Citizens (and the conspiracy nuts) concerned about security, most all of the communication over these radio channels are very much mundane and I suspect are kept in the clear for commuicating with fellow agencies.
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
- 166.7000 NOVEMBER White House Staff
- 164.8875 OSCAR Presidential Protection Primary
- 167.0250 WHISKEY Paging
The local US Secret Service Field Offices use the following frequencies.
- 165.7875 BAKER Base
- 165.3750 CHARLIE Command Post
- 164.6500 TANGO Tactical
- 165.2125 MIKE Motorcade
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 NORAD BLUE 15 - Talking with tankers and getting orders from NORAD
- 138.2250 VICTOR 12 - AM mode air to air communications
- 121.5000 Guard VHF - Used to contact pilots intruding into restrict air space
- 148.1250 AM mode nationwide common
