Seems to be a bit of a desert in respect of information. NPS does state you can contact the radio coordinator for whatever park you are interested in. Doesn’t mean they will give up that information but there is only one way to find out. I’d guess they are likely sharing the same frequencies as a nearby NPS site. I wasn’t able to find anything in the databases but someone in the area might have better knowledge.
Set the NAC to 0xf7e or $F7E and should be home free if the frequency is right. I’m on the other end of the state so I don’t have any way to test it, but perhaps someone can give it a whirl. NPS coverage on the eastern end of the state is crazy good.
Good point. I use Harris NAS instead of a scanner. One of these days I’ll stumble across a SDS100 or 200. It would definitely make life a lot easier. I actually didn’t consider them using analog. Closest NPS to me is Smoky Mountains National Park. They are definitely P25. Usually clear but sometimes garbled robot music encryption. Their repeater coverage is phenomenal in East Tennessee.I've only had luck with $F7E on a Real [Motorla, EFJ etc] Radio, doesn't work with Scanners, best to just program as P25 and NAC Search , if they are P25 [many are still analog] so the best route is just program as AUTO[detect]
Good point. I use Harris NAS instead of a scanner. One of these days I’ll stumble across a SDS100 or 200. It would definitely make life a lot easier. I actually didn’t consider them using analog. Closest NPS to me is Smoky Mountains National Park. They are definitely P25. Usually clear but sometimes garbled robot music encryption. Their repeater coverage is phenomenal in East Tennessee.
Good luck trying to navigate this but the answer is probably somewhere within this FOIA document. 15,534 pages worth.
I wouldn’t expect it to be complete and I wouldn’t expect it to be easy to read. The Feds produced it. Whoever compiled the documents probably got tired of doing it after the first 30 pages. Not a job most people would want to do.And good luck trying to find anything specific in that document. A couple of us on the thread the link originated on don't think it is a complete listing at all, perhaps not even close.
Bring your scanner and do close call. If this park is as small as u say it is you should be able to pick up enough RF from the repeater site ( if they even have one ) to study the system. Usually close-call works good if your around a mile or less of a repeater pushing out its 100w rating.
I have studied many sites like this.
I wouldn’t expect it to be complete and I wouldn’t expect it to be easy to read. The Feds produced it. Whoever compiled the documents probably got tired of doing it after the first 30 pages. Not a job most people would want to do.
*Great Smoky Mountains National Park*
Everything else here is Smoky Mountains instead of Great Smoky Mountains. Ex. Smoky Mountain Knife Works, Smoky Mountain Brewery, Smoky Mountains Hospice, and too many for me to list. All on the right side of California in Appa-latch-uh .