VT State Parks-Park Ops (154.5700 s PL 67.0)

[cmpsa]

For anyone living in VT or visiting, if you visit any VT State Park, take a listen on (below). I found Plymouth State Park operations (Plymouth VT) using Kenwood VHF commercial hand-held portables with only one (1) channel, 154.5700 { MURS channel 4} simplex PL 67.0

A park employee said he believed all parks use this same channel for internal Park Ops. He said only radio that has access to the various repeaters on mountains, is the park supervisor. The employee radios are just one channel for Park Ops. He said they use cell texting for private comms. For me, my scanner heard them all day for the 9 hours we were there. Not a single peep on the State Park rptrs (151.4750), nor the alleged input of 170.4750

Unsure if other and/or all parks are using the same as Camp Plymouth State Park. I would have thought the State would use their own FCC licensed frequency of 151.4750 for all Statewide Park Ops.

 

[LathamScan]

Honestly, I thought VT Parks gave up on their VHF system. I've been hearing for a while now VAOT traffic patched in to 151.475 repeaters, to what (I assume) are fill-in spots that the main district repeater has troubles with. For example, VAOT District 1 uses 159.195 DCS 125 up on Mt. Equinox, but you can also hear the same traffic being carried over 151.475 DCS 125. I've also found this in use in VAOT District 8 as well. I haven't heard any Parks radio traffic on 151.475 in a while.

 

[NEK1213]

The local state park hardly uses radios, but when they do it's on the mini UHF Personal Radios.

 

[cmpsa]

The only activity I used to hear previously was snowplowing ops (during winter) in one State Park, or maybe a bunch of State Parks (this was 3-4 years ago now), 151.4750 Rptr (I can't find the PL/DPL code at the moment, which would tell me which site rptr they were using.

RE: a 2nd State Park we visited, Okemo State Forest (i.e. Buttermilk Falls), Ludlow VT. We met a VT State Park Ranger that showed up on 2 separate days. She said she has no car/mobile, nor a hand-held portable radio, and only uses cell phone to talk/communicate to her management, or get a hold of her, etc. I guess they don't care about using their two-way radio system & site repeaters at all I guess...