[Scan-DC] US Park PD?

Mon Mar 1 12:26:05 EST 2010

Lambs Knoll is located at the top of the hill that Reno Mountain road runs 
along in Washington County.

The Frederick County MSP repeater, some other repeaters, a "Air Traffic 
Control" facility, and some other stuff is up there.

I believe that the microwave for Manassas Battlefield and Prince William 
Forest, to download to C&O Canal is located up there now too.

Carl
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From: "Doug Kitchener" <oldsdoug at hotmail.com>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 11:05 AM
To: <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] US Park PD?

>
> Thanks to all... have just put all those freqs in the BC-396.
>
> Ed, like you, I remember the "whole thing" in MD being called the Maryland 
> side... and I still think of it that way... when writing the original 
> email, I had to look at yahoo maps to determine what roads were called 
> what... now if I can only remember that!  (Wonder when it changed... I 
> didn't think it was all that long ago, but tempus really does fugit!)
>
> Also, yeah, I recently saw a US Park PD cruiser working radar there at 
> Little Falls... he'da got me if the guy in front of me hadn't been going 
> slow.  (Seems to me that they jink the speed limit up and down through 
> there... I thought at one time that most of it was 55 and now I think some 
> places are as low as 35...
>
> One last question... one of the frequencies given in RR for C&O canal is 
> tagged as Lambs Knoll... where's that?  Yahoo maps didn't find it... I'll 
> keep looking...
>
> Again, thanks to all... next time a pickup augers in to the canal, I 
> should be up to date!
>
> ----------------------------------------
>> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 13:23:08 +0000
>> From: edtobias at comcast.net
>> To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] US Park PD?
>>
>> Like the BW Parkway and the GW Parkway, the Clara Barton Parkway is 
>> patrolled by US Park Police. I can attest to this because I was stopped 
>> by a USPP unit running radar on the Clara Barton a few years ago. (No, I 
>> did not get a ticket). By the way, long ago, before it was named the 
>> Clara Barton Parkway, that road used to be known as "the Maryland side of 
>> the GW Parkway".
>>
>> All of those units work off the same dispatch frequency of 166.925. Here 
>> are all of the USPP frequencies, from the RadioReference listing:
>>
>> Park Police
>>
>>
>> Frequency Type Tone Alpha Tag Description Mode Tag
>> 166.72500 RM 127.3 PL Park PD 1/6 Tactical/Special Events FM Federal
>> 166.92500 RM 127.3 PL Park PD 2/7 Dispatch/Operations FM Federal
>> 167.07500 RM 127.3 PL Park PD 3/8 Tactical/Administration FM Federal
>> 166.85000 M 127.3 PL Park PD 4 Tactical/Special Operations FM Federal
>> Also from RadioReference, here are the unit numbers. Either the 200 or 
>> the 300 units patrol the Clara Barton:
>>
>>
>> • 100s - Central (Downtown)
>> • 200s - George Washington Parkway
>> • 300s - West (Rock Creek Park)
>> • 400s - Baltimore-Washington Parkway
>> • 500s - East (Anacostia, etc.)
>> • 700s - Special Operations
>>
>> Ed
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "t11spanner"
>> To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
>> Sent: Monday, March 1, 2010 6:51:13 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] US Park PD?
>>
>> C&O is part of the National Capital Region of National Parks.
>>
>> They do not dispatch the Park Police, nor do they do the GW or BW 
>> parkway.
>> Given the close proximity of those parks to the Park Police, they patrol 
>> it
>> and dispatch it.
>>
>> C&O Canal, HQ'd in Hagerstown is the central dispatch center for the
>> following National Parks in the Capital Region:
>>
>> C&O Canal,
>> Antietam Battlefield,
>> Monocacy Battlefield,
>> Harpers Ferry,
>> Catoctin Mountain Park,
>> Manassas Battlefield,
>> Prince William Forest,
>> Fort McHenry
>> Hampton Historical Site.
>>
>> Carl
>>
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "David L. Wilson"
>> Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 11:10 PM
>> To: "Doug Kitchener" ;
>> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] US Park PD?
>>
>>> C&O Canal is not part of National Capital Parks nor GW Parkway (though
>>> they
>>> probably also have those frequencies). C&O Canal uses a 3 repeater 
>>> linked
>>> system that has repeaters at Great Falls, Lambs Knoll, and Cacapon
>>> Mountain.
>>>
>>> http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?aid=2695
>>> 169.6875 repeater would have been the one to watch.
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Doug Kitchener"
>>> To:
>>> Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 10:49 PM
>>> Subject: [Scan-DC] US Park PD?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Last night (Saturday), I think around 2300, Montgomery County dispatched
>>> fire / rescue units to (I think) lock 5 at the C&O canal for a vehicle 
>>> in
>>> the canal... it turned out to be a pickup truck that had been involved 
>>> in
>>> robbery or burglary or something like that, and subsequent police chase,
>>> in
>>> Ffx county. Vehicle turned out to be unoccupied by the time they got 
>>> there
>>> (surprise!) and was upright... apparently the water was not that deep.
>>>
>>> I was falling asleep and gathered most of this, but didn't listen too 
>>> much
>>> after I heard all that (basically the initial report). It was down in 
>>> the
>>> Canal Road / Clara Barton Parkway / Cabin John Parkway area.
>>>
>>> I _think_ I turned on the 800-meg scanner and I _think_ I put it on the
>>> MCP
>>> Bethesda talkgroup (I didn't have the US Park channels programmed into 
>>> the
>>> radio but have just remedied that), but was wondering at the time who 
>>> has
>>> jurisdiction there, MCP or US Park Police, or both... does anyone know?
>>>
>>> I looked on RadioReference and only see four frequencies for US Park...
>>> but
>>> then another four for National Park Service... the NPS channels are
>>> tagged:
>>>
>>> National Capital Parks - Central (US Park Police Ch. 5);
>>> National Capital Parks - East;
>>> George Washington Parkway; and
>>> National Capital Parks - Central
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a little more detailed insight about how these
>>> frequencies
>>> are used, and how the Park Police operate? There doesn't seem to be any
>>> indication of different frequencies for parks / facilities / operations 
>>> in
>>> MD, DC, or VA...
>>>
>>> Tomorrow I'll check Alan's Capitol Hill Monitors site, I think at least
>>> some
>>> of this has been addressed there...
>>>
>>> Any info would be of interest! Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>> Doug
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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