Secret Service VHF radios are set up as follows:
Channel Designation
1
BAKER
2
CHARLIE
3
MIKE
4
TANGO
5
OSCAR
6
PAPA
7
BAKER REPEATER (165.7875/164.4000)
8
CHARLIE REPEATER (165.3750/166.4000)
Frequencies A through Z
Alpha 32.2300 WHCA-Transportation
(vans) (possible DC base)
Baker 165.7875 USSS-Field
Offices,
President/VP/VIP security
Charlie 165.3750 USSS-
Field
Offices/Protection,
command post coordination (Nationwide Primary)
Delta 169.9250 WHCA-
Marine
Security Detachment, vans
Echo 407.8500 WHCA-SAM
Uplink (
Air Force 1 phone patch ground uplink)
Foxtrot 415.7000 WHCA-SAM
Downlink
(
Air Force 1 phone patch aircraft downlink)
Golf 166.4000 USSS-
Field
Offices
165.7625
Input to 165.3750
repeaters
Hotel 167.9000 WHCA-V.P.
Staff/
White House Garage
165.6875
166.2125
President/
VP Security
India 407.9250 USSS-
Headquarters
(
Treasury Security Force)
166.2000
Juliet 170.0000 USSS-
Paging/
Camp
David
Kilo 167.8250 Duplex
Phone-Pres Res/LBJ, WHCA
Lima 168.7875 Duplex
Phone-Pres Res/LBJ, WHCA (voice
scramblers)
Lavender 418.1250 WHCA-
Transportation
Mike 165.2125 USSS-
Dignitary/Former
Pres Protection,
Counterfeit Division
November 166.7000 WHCA-
White House Staff
Oscar 164.8875 USSS-
Presidential
Protection Division (PPD), WHCA
Papa 164.4000 USSS-
Field
Offices/Protection, input to 165.2125
repeaters
Quebec ---
Romeo 166.4000 Input to 165.7875
repeaters
164.4000
USSS-Repeater Outputs
Sierra 166.5125 WHCA-
White
House Staff
Tango 164.6500 USSS-
Field Offices/Protection,
Presidential/
VP Security
Uniform 361.6000 AF-1
Communications
165.0875
Victor 164.1000 WHCA,
Presidential/
VP
Protection
Whiskey 167.0250 WHCA-
Paging
X-ray ******** SEE BELOW
Yankee 162.6875 WHCA-
Presidential phone
uplink
or
downlink
Zulu 171.2875 WHCA-
Presidential
phone
downlink or
uplink
The
Treasury Common frequency is 166.4625.
X-ray is the reserve frequency pool and is not
Treasury Common. Frequencies
here are used whenever a new
frequency is needed.
X-ray frequencies
164.7500
164.8000
165.2625
165.3375
165.4125
165.5125
165.6500
165.6875
165.8500
165.9000
166.0500
166.2000
166.5625
166.5875
166.6375
166.8000
167.9000
The most
active frequencies used before and during a
presidential or
vice
presidential visit are
Baker,
Charlie,
Mike, and
Tango, as well as any
channel designated for use by the
WHCA. The frequency used most as a
nationwide
primary repeater channel is
Charlie, followed by
Baker. Former presidents'
security use
Mike.
Oscar is used for
presidential protection nationwide
and
Papa is used for
White House perimeter patrols.
Pres
Nighthawk Aircraft Fleet (
HMX)
Transport 46.7500
Transport 375.0000
VIP Transport Net 34.3500
Command Post 142.7500
Squadron Common 265.8000
USMC helicopters 46.7000, 46.7500, 46.8000, 122.8500, 375.0000
Other
Phone Patches
Nationwide-2 407.4750
uplink
Nationwide-2 415.8000
downlink
Limousines (Local/DC) 407.4500
duplex
Limousines (Local/DC) 408.2000
duplex
USSS Uniform Division (All repeaters use PL 103.5 Hz)
Gray 418.3500/407.7500
White House
Orange 418.7750/414.9500
White House
Brown 414.8500/418.8000
Foreign Missions
Red 415.9750/419.7250
Foreign Missions
Silver 415.6500/419.1000
Foreign Missions
Yellow 414.6750/418.1500, 415.9500 WHCA
Foreign Missions
Patrol
("
Boardwalk")
Primary
Training Division:
Beltsville,
MD
Green 415.7500/407.8750
Black 415.1000/418.3250
Blue 414.8000
Violet 415.8000
Communications Division:
Gold 415.6750/419.0750
Other:
Lavender 418.1250
WHCA
Transportation
White 407.6750
Technical Security Division (Special Use)
F-1 408.0000
F-2 411.0000
F-3 408.5000
F-4 408.9750
NOTES: Frequencies in 407
Mhz band are used for agents' body radios with "
wristwatch"
microphones.
WHCA stands for
White House Communications Agency.
The
PL used by the
Secret Service is 103.5
Hz.
The above info was gathered from several sources. Not all sources agreed on the
same
frequencies.