U.S. Park Ranger San Antonio

Saw a new U.S. Park Ranger explorer interceptor this week down by the Missions. Are they on the Provoice system like the majority of Law Enforcement in the county or are they in the Federal band somewhere.

They're most likely using the Parks and Wildlife system, as one of the frequencies is for Bexar County, so I bet they're just using that. Maybe not, I haven't seen anything else in the database yet.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference
Check out region 5.

That is for the State. I'm talking about the Federal United States Park Rangers that cover the Missions.

I would spend sometime searching the 162-174 band at 12.5 Khz channel spacings

NC5267 said:

That is for the State. I'm talking about the Federal United States Park Rangers that cover the Missions.

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They are on city south patrol

Happen to know the unit numbers? I didn't think city contracted dispatch services out, just dispatched for their own and Park Police. I know county does for multiple agencies.

NPS will use a federal channel and channels in the fed range on vhf and may also utilize local systems if a agreement is in place for dispatching and running inqueries to platrs. Some will stick to the local county or system the park is in for traffic stops and mutual aid etc and also use the vhf for localized park operations. Some will call out on both vhf and a local system for traffic stops or law related duties others stick to local systems but use NPS vhfs for basic operations. All NPS units across the US have a zone with federal vhf and a NPS LAW channel however this channel is strapped. Last bunch of new vehicles I seen had the vhf radios going to be sent to a few park regions with extra console slots for local radio equipment once they got to the destinations. The zones in the federal vhf mobiles all had the common federal zone channels.

"All NPS units across the US have a zone with federal vhf and a NPS LAW channel"

That is not true. In my area the NPS rangers are on a UHF trunked system. They have no vhf radios.