Boston's Fourth of July 2007 Celebration
Its been a few years since I have updated this info so I thought it was time. Many yearly updates can be found on http://www.scanmass.net boards. The thing is that events like these consist of many fleets of rental radios on the non-public safety and differ completely from year to year. Just as I gather all the info during the event this year. It is now out of date for next year. But I will post it as a guide on where to start looking.
 

Public Safety

State Police (Zone 5)
SOPS 1  33360  UCC Primary Boston Side
SOPS 2  33488  Cambridge Side
SOPS 3  33680  Unit 2 Unit (Day before 4th Air units doing video microwave with the UCC and BPD)
SOPS 4  33712 Escorts
SOPS 5  33872 Air units doing video microwave with the UCC and BPD
LPS 1 36336 Marine Units (State, Boston, Coast Guard, DLE, etc.)
TECH-A  35312 MSP Radio Techs on site
STATE   35472 Air units when not on SOPS 5
I-TAC-1 866.5125 156.7 was patched to Boston's BPD/BFD/BEMS 14 460.275 D466 and Cambridge's F6 16976 Interagency/Interop channels

MSP Direct 868.9625 141.3
State Fire Marshall East 34992
EXEC A 35152
MEMA E 38928

Boston Police 
BPD 1  460.350 D315 units on the parameter and access streets (most of this event is State property with very few Boston units on location)
BPD 12 460.050 D464 Escorts
BPD/BFD/BEMS 14 460.275 D466 patched to I-TAC-1 866.5125 156.7 and Cambridge's F6 16976 Interagency/Interop channels

DCR  (Zone 1)
41232 SOPS
41328 Rangers
41008 Central 1
41200 Reservations 2

BEMS
460.550R Tac 12 192.8 (main on scene)
462.950R Tac 9   151.4

BFD
483.2375R D712 (main on scene) [also used direct]

Military

LPS-2 National Guard Units
Also they all now carry IntraSquad radios (military FRS type radios) so put them in as well.

Military IntraSquad Radios (Military equivalent to FRS radios)

157.075   USCG ch 81
162.1250 USCG LANT 03
259.9, 260.9, 262.0  Otis F-15's
 

Event Orginizers
Boston's Fourth of July folks  B4 Boston 4 Celebrations (Event Organizers)
Repeater 1 463.550R 127.3 (Brass)
Repeater 2 0-09-002 (Comtronics UHF LTR Trunk "see below")
Direct 1 462.575S 162.2
Direct 2 464.275S 225.7
Direct 3 461.575S 141.3
Direct 4 461.675S 186.2
Direct 5 463.725S D723
Direct 6 458.000S 68.9
Direct 7 462.225S D244
Direct 8 463.550S D546
Extra Repeater 0-09-034
ADMIN 0-09-035
 

Logistics, Sound, Video, Fireworks, TV and everything else
Capron (don't underestimate their involvement at every level of this event..)
Capron 1 0-09-010 (Comtronics UHF LTR Trunk "see below")
Capron 2 463.225S D306
Capron 3 462.125S D565
Direct 1 462.575S 162.2
Direct 2 464.275S 225.7
Direct 3 461.575S 141.3
Direct 4 461.675S 186.2
Direct 5 463.725S D723
Direct 6 458.000S 68.9
Direct 7 462.225S D244
Direct 8 463.550S D546

Comtronics LTR Trunk  in logistical channel order

TV Tech Group     455.4125S 88.5
TV PL/IFB            450.9875R CS  (TV camera cueing)
 

Fireworks Comms 450.0625R 85.4
Data to Barge 161.730, 450.850
Music to Barge   161.64in 166.25Rout

464.425S  Stage Direction  D031  (Talamas Rental Ch1)


Onsite communication- unidentified purpose

458.000S 69.3 ???
462.550S D662
461.575S 141.3
463.550S 127.3
464.500S 118.8
460.550 67.0 ??

854.4875S 136.5  licensed to Cambridge PD

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Boston's Fourth of July 2003 Celebration  Pictures
Thanks to Kennyblues, Bill Dunn, Gary Safer and others for helping comply the below info.

Public Safety

State Police (Zone 5)
SOPS 1  33360  UCC Primary
SOPS 2  33488  Cambridge Side
SOPS 5  33872 Marine Units
SOPS 3 thru 8 where also used on scene
STATE   35472 Air units doing video microwave with 100 Beacon and UCC

34992 State Fire Marshall East
35152 EXEC A
38928 MEMA E
36336 LOCPS

868.9625  141.3 MSP Direct
867.5125  156.7 I-TAC-3 direct

MDC (Zone 1)
41232 SOPS
41328 Rangers
41008 Central 1
41200 Reservations 2

BEMS
460.550R Tac 12 192.8 (main on scene)
462.950R Tac 9   151.4

BFD
483.2375R 118.8 Ch4 (main on scene) [also used direct]

BPD
460.050R 118.8 MOPS

Military

867.0125R 156.7 I-TAC-2 National Guard Units
157.075   USCG ch 81
162.1250 USCG LANT 03
259.9, 260.9, 262.0  Otis F-15's callsign Slam 21

Others

Boston's Fourth of July folks/brass  462.0875  91.5 (ch3 on 16ch rental radios)
*no use again for the second year of  151.280R KNIZ355 PL151.4 Input 159.285  Boston's 4th of July brass ch. in the past

Video Crews for CBS  464.225 127.3 (ch5 on 16ch rental radios)
Camera Cues (separate radios)
Ch 1  455.9125 67.0 in  450.9125R CS out
Ch2   455.9625 69.3 in  450.9625R CS out

Capron Crews and stage cueing  462.700  D156

Fireworks Comms    MMCOMM    450.4375R
Data to Barge 161.730, 455.90
Music to Barge   161.64in 166.25Rout

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Boston's Fourth of July 2002 Celebration
(7/6/02 okay what I had found by the end of the long hot couple of days....)
Every year I try to track down the channels in use and what for but it seems to change every year. Basically everything is rented so it seems to change with whatever rental outfit they go with. This year radios all seemed to be from UHF from TALAMAS or ATELL . In the past there has been a lot of VHF with the below VHF channel being the main frequency of the upper staff and all of Capron on Nextel. This year all of this seemed to be on Nextel with everything lower on UHF.
**note this channel was not used this year and no VHF radios seemed to be used on site?? 151.280R KNIZ355 PL151.4  Boston's 4th of July (seems to be the main brass channel of the event.) Input 159.285

TV Camera Techs
Ch1 464.500 118.8
Ch2 464.550 123.0
Audio (video folk in background) PL for Wireless Headsets 457.5375 (82.5) Input either wired or on 468.8375, 468,4878 (88.5)

464.500 94.8 Some Capron folks?

464.425 (D031) Orchestra or talent people assistants
463.5625 167.9?? unknown
469.550 (233.6)
469.575 (173.8)

262.00AM Air National Guard units from Otis on the Fly By

450.4375 (82.5) Fireworks Comms.
161.73, 455.90 Fireworks Data feed
161.64, 166.2500 Fireworks Audio feed

Public Safety special thanks to Bill Dunn and Gary Safer for help with much of the info below

State Police

Boston Police:  460.350 (118.8) Channel 1, 460.450 (118.8) Channel 2 Area A
Boston EMS: Tac12 460.550 (192.8), Tac9 460.950  *Tac14 460.525 (192.8)  was patched to Marine Operations??
State Environmental Police 39152, 39184 (units on scene where on Marine Operations Groups and not their own talkgroups)

Call Signs:
CP-1    Unified Command Post or UC
CP-2    MSP Mobile Command  Post

 

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