Here’s a direct link:
wiki.radioreference.com
Looks great es93546, thanks for taking the time to put this together!
It’s been a couple years since I’ve been to Yosemite but I remember at one point valley protection rangers also used “Victor”. Any idea if they still do?
Also “Rescue” is most likely the YOSAR specific vehicles. “R-3” in this photo should be “Rescue 3”:
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Thanks for the picture, it confirms what I was thinking. I suspected Rescue meant either an equipment vehicle or a crew transport vehicle, in this case it looks like it's both.
I looked at my notes and see I left out "Victor." I believe it signifies Valley District non-protection personnel, but unless they aren't using the number series "300" then this doesn't make sense. I haven't been over into the park in since 2018 or 2019 and haven't camped or otherwise stayed overnight in more years than that. I've never heard "India" either which would be a natural for interpretation, so they must be using district numbers. Now I also see that I seemed to have confirmed that "Charlie" is the Crane Flat sub-district of the Mather District. So I don't at all have this thing nailed, but will add my guess for Charlie. It is also my guess that the other sub-district is the Big Oak Flat sub-district. I need more listening time, but having to get a reservation to enter has put a crimp on my ad-hoc, last minute type trips I've taken to Olmstead Point to listen to radio systems in the park.
I've not been able to find the park's new LE frequency either. I confirmed it in 2019 to still be 166.8500, but I haven't heard it on the Mammoth Mountain link for the Devils Postpile protection rangers for a couple of years.
Back to Victor, it might be given to management personnel or others who don't work one of the standard day, evening or night shifts that the valley has. I heard somewhere that there is a sub-district ranger in charge of each shift. Yosemite has the most permanent staff of any park in the NPS. I got a hold of their employee directories a few years back and counted something like 700 employees, including the permanent seasonals. That might sound like an oxymoron, but people who work more than 1039 hours per year (half of a permanent full time employee) and have 18/8 appointments (18 two week pay periods guaranteed and 8 on call) are called permanent seasonals.