The Guadalupe Mountains National Park is located in northern Culberson County, Texas. The frequency that I used to monitor them on, 164.425 has gone silent. I have searched the VHF federal band from 160.00 through 174.00. I have not been able to find the new frequency. The antennas on park vehicles are still vhf. The law enforcement rangers in the park have access to the Texas DPS VHF frequencies and communicate with troopers and dispatchers on the DPS frequencies. Does anyone know the new frequencies or have suggestions for finding them? Thanks.
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Do either of you happen to know the frequency of the Fort Davis National Historic Site? I have been there numerous times with close call on the federal bands and hear nothing. Nothing that I can find in the wiki or anywhere. Thanks.
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The wiki was builtout based on some ICS205 documents found
As to the current accuracy, good question as no one has edited the wiki, to include recent confirmation [OTA] monitorings
As to the current accuracy, good question as no one has edited the wiki, to include recent confirmation [OTA] monitorings
I don't know if its accurate.Guadalupe Mountains National Park (TX) - The RadioReference Wiki
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I can confirm that 169.7125 is an active frequency. Today, I heard a park ranger from the Guadalupe Mountains National Park call his dispatcher and inform him that he was going off-duty. The ranger referred to the dispatcher as "Alamogordo Dispatch". The dispatcher answered using that same callsign.
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PL tone ?
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BTW the wiki showed NM, fixed to reflect TX
I don't know if its accurate.Guadalupe Mountains National Park (TX) - The RadioReference Wiki
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Once again, late hubby's extensive notes have useful info for the thread. For those of you wondering why Alamagordo, New Mexico would dispatch a park ranger in Texas, the Alamagordo Center covers western Texas, leaving out the Panhandle of Texas, west of 100 degrees west.
Hubby's notes show a page from a 2-3 year old frequency guide for the Southwest GACC of this rpt. pair: 169.7125 out & 162.2375 in. TX and RX tone 127.3. This shows the rpt. in a location called "Bushfire" I think, the column really says "Channel Name/Trunked Radio System Talkgroup" so they may call the rpt channel "Bushfire." It alswo says for fire use only used for both Guadalupe Mountains NP and Carlsbad Cavern NP. IIRC there is another thread somewhere where somebody was trying to find the outside (not in the big cave) frequency. Maybe this is it. Interesting it's for fire only, but a park ranger, presumably a law enforcement ranger was heard to be using it.
Here is a map.
Hubby's notes show a page from a 2-3 year old frequency guide for the Southwest GACC of this rpt. pair: 169.7125 out & 162.2375 in. TX and RX tone 127.3. This shows the rpt. in a location called "Bushfire" I think, the column really says "Channel Name/Trunked Radio System Talkgroup" so they may call the rpt channel "Bushfire." It alswo says for fire use only used for both Guadalupe Mountains NP and Carlsbad Cavern NP. IIRC there is another thread somewhere where somebody was trying to find the outside (not in the big cave) frequency. Maybe this is it. Interesting it's for fire only, but a park ranger, presumably a law enforcement ranger was heard to be using it.
Here is a map.
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Look under my Carlsbad nm trip post in the new Mexico forum. I logged a few frequencies that i couldnt identify.
Try one of them and see if it's them.
I was one recently inquiring on it. In our state issued radios we only have the fire frequency on analog as they can use it still but I noticed Carlsbad caverns simplex frequency for cave is mainly used as p25. They rarely I was told use analog.
There was a few unidentified federal some had ideas on but I wouldn't know. I rule out BIA or Lincoln FS as I have all those in my state issued radios and none of those are in them.
Try one of them and see if it's them.
I was one recently inquiring on it. In our state issued radios we only have the fire frequency on analog as they can use it still but I noticed Carlsbad caverns simplex frequency for cave is mainly used as p25. They rarely I was told use analog.
There was a few unidentified federal some had ideas on but I wouldn't know. I rule out BIA or Lincoln FS as I have all those in my state issued radios and none of those are in them.
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I check Wikipedia on Alamogordo, NM and there is mention of an United States Forest Service headquarters in Alamogordo.
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I check Wikipedia on Alamogordo, NM and there is mention of an United States Forest Service headquarters in Alamogordo.
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On the map I posted it shows the big area that the Alamogordo Interagency Dispatch Center covers. The Lincoln National Forest, Forest Supervisor's Office is located in Alamogordo, but the dispatch center handles the U.S. Forest Service, National P:ark Service, BLM, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, BIA and New Mexico State Forestry. In the case of other dispatch centers they usually only handle the fire management function of National Park Service units (parks, monuments, historic sites, national recreation areas, etc.) and the law enforcement dispatch is handled by the NPS. In some cases they use phone lines or VoIP to connect distant parks into some sort of wide area regional dispatch center. Close to home here in AZ, Grand Canyon NP fire management and aviation functions are dispatched by the Williams Interagency Dispatch Center, who also dispatches for the BIA agencies west of Williams. However, the park has a Public Safety Answering Point at their own emergency dispatch center in Grand Canyon Village, South Rim. It would surprise me if the "ranger" heard by lhillin is a law enforcement ranger. I haven't the foggiest of who does the law enforcement dispatching for the park units in the Alamogordo Center's area, those being Carlsbad, Guadalupe and Big Bend. I would guess that Guadalupe is dispatched by Carlsbad, who may have their own LE dispatching. Big Bend is anyone's guess.
Here is the link to the dispatch center's website.
Alamogordo Dispatch
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There is. It is located in Mesa Village in Alamogordo. Within it is Forestry, DOI, BIA and dispatch center. There is a microwave and second site at the Alamogordo airport where they use to rub out of that building for dispatch, as well as the old federal building now a county building where the old dispatch center is in place and used as a county oem type communications room.I check Wikipedia on Alamogordo, NM and there is mention of an United States Forest Service headquarters in Alamogordo.
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One interesting thing is white sands can use the dispatch but never does. They have a ranger on duty at the duty desk during business hours and contract with Otero county to run plates and such over Otero county main (old) channel. Though this is said to change down road once the national monument turns into a park officially.
If one has patience there is a lot of federal on and off, sometimes nothing out of Otero.
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