There may be an opportunity for me to be in the area this coming week.
New Adirondack DEC Rangers feed.
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ARS was at the site and corrected the radio programming issue. Feed is now working as intended and I heard 2 Region 6 Ranger repeaters so far.
There will be long quiet periods since the Rangers seldom use the radio unless there is an incident in progress or dealing with high numbers of Park visitors.
There will be long quiet periods since the Rangers seldom use the radio unless there is an incident in progress or dealing with high numbers of Park visitors.
A lot of activity on feed right now small forest fire Lilly Lake Rd, Fulton County.
Now that the feed has been operating in its proper configuration for over a month it appears to cover about 90% of the Adirondack Park and NYS DEC Regions 5 & 6. The only repeater site probably out of range is Belfry which is not a very high site near the Vermont border an it is on the far side of the High Peaks area from our Boonville site. There has been no identifiable heard activity from that repeater.
The following 159.435 repeater sites are regularly heard:
Adams
Black
Blue
Colfax
Gomer
Gore
Kane
Martinsburg
Panther
Pillsbury
Spruce
Starr
Stillwater
Wakely
White
Whiteface
Adams is marginal and unreadable at times. Black is generally somewhat noisy but readable. Others generally OK with Blue, Gore and Whiteface the most active.
No activity has been heard yet on known sites: Dry, Woodhull and Hurricane. Dry and Woodhull should be well within range but are not in an area with much Ranger activity. Reception of Hurricane is questionable due to distance but I am told it is a solar powered site generally used only to fill in coverage for incidents in the area so reception may be possible.
System does not generally have much traffic other than some units calling in and out of service and that is often done by cell phone rather than radio where cell service is available. But, it gets quite active when there is a fire or SAR incident in progress. The only downside is that on-scene unit to unit communication often switches to the DEC 151 simplex channels F1-4 which we can not receive but communications with Ray Brook and responding units, or incidents not confined to a small area, remain on the repeaters.
So feed coverage and activity meets our expectations for wide area reception of the Adirondack Park and vicinity NYSDEC Ranger Operations.
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The following 159.435 repeater sites are regularly heard:
Adams
Black
Blue
Colfax
Gomer
Gore
Kane
Martinsburg
Panther
Pillsbury
Spruce
Starr
Stillwater
Wakely
White
Whiteface
Adams is marginal and unreadable at times. Black is generally somewhat noisy but readable. Others generally OK with Blue, Gore and Whiteface the most active.
No activity has been heard yet on known sites: Dry, Woodhull and Hurricane. Dry and Woodhull should be well within range but are not in an area with much Ranger activity. Reception of Hurricane is questionable due to distance but I am told it is a solar powered site generally used only to fill in coverage for incidents in the area so reception may be possible.
System does not generally have much traffic other than some units calling in and out of service and that is often done by cell phone rather than radio where cell service is available. But, it gets quite active when there is a fire or SAR incident in progress. The only downside is that on-scene unit to unit communication often switches to the DEC 151 simplex channels F1-4 which we can not receive but communications with Ray Brook and responding units, or incidents not confined to a small area, remain on the repeaters.
So feed coverage and activity meets our expectations for wide area reception of the Adirondack Park and vicinity NYSDEC Ranger Operations.
New York State DEC - Forest Ranger Live Audio Feed
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