PA DCNR Frequency

[Steveradio]

I know we had a thread going with this but now cant find it.
155.4525 PL82.5 was active today, how ever not coming in that great. Just got this transmission.
"Contact Station to " unit "go ahead" "The people in cottage # need help getting the heat turned on" and that was it.
Did anyone confirm what frequency Hickory Run Rangers are using now since 151.385 PL103.5 pretty much quiet, with being on fire team its still in my Radio as "Pohopoco Rpt" and repeater drops when key up?

 

[HM1529]

This is the Broad Mtn Repeater output. Tuscarora/Locust Lake complex uses this most commonly. It is also assigned to Beltzville, but I don't recall hearing that park on there much.

Hickory Run was assigned to the Mt Yeager repeater and the three Lehigh gorge repeaters, but I do not recall ever hearing it on any of those repeaters when I have been in the area...either they use them infrequently or they're sticking to 800MHz only.

 

[Steveradio]

Stopped by Beltzville Labor Day weekend and even those directing traffic were using the 800 radios.

 

[Dei2Racing]

Any more I think they only use the repeaters when the 800mhz system is down. The same time I hear Promised land on high knob the PSP are on old channels.

 

[HM1529]

Any more I think they only use the repeaters when the 800mhz system is down. The same time I hear Promised land on high knob the PSP are on old channels.

Use of the VHF by DCNR depends on location.

For instance, French Creek and Nockamixon state parks make frequent use of their local VHF repeaters to talk between 800MHz radios and VHF radios. You can tell that one user is on an OpenSky radio by the sound of the audio because of the digital to analog link.

Evansburg, Fort Washington, and Ridley Creek State Parks have not been heard locally since the implementation of 800.

Parks with few personnel and/or excellent 800 coverage really have no need for the VHF, especially if nobody there is carrying a VHF portable. Parks with a lot of people out and about utilizing VHF portables will have a need to use the repeaters.