[FedCom] Great Smokey Mtn Nat Park log

[J Doe]

Rod, Great post. Thank you for the information.
JD

On 11/24/06, rod jones <rj_721 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Came home a few days ago from there, things have changed from when I was there in Sept.
>
> The National Park Service (NPS) is now running Digital on their Conventional freqs, also looks
> like they changed or added a few freqs. 169.55 is still active as the Regional repeater, 167.15,
> 169.0875(New), 170.5125(New), and 171.1625 all seem to be Repeater outputs with the same input.
>
> Sounds like the Park Rangers are now Digital, but a few users, maybe the maintenance ***s, are
> still Analog.
>
> Also, on 169.55 Analog, heard a "Wildlife" unit contacting the NPS Dispatcher, then the dispatcher
> went digital, then came back on analog to the "Wildlife" unit.
>
>
> Here are the Freq/Modes noted
>
> 167.1500  Digital/Analog
> 169.0875  Digital
> 170.5125  Digital/Analog (PL 123.0 noted in Analog)
> 171.1625  Digital/Analog (PL 173.8 noted in Analog)
>
> Rod
> Atlanta