Yellowstone National Park

Monitoring all of the services at Yellowstone National Park will require loading in several sources (inside and outside of the park) into your scanner. Various Federal, State, County and local agenices may be operating near the park. Yellowstone National Park is an exclusive federal jurisdiction so state and local agencies do not have any jurisdiction in the park.

Agencies that may be operating near the park may include: -Wyoming, Montana, Idaho Highway Patrols -West Yellowstone, Montana PD -Gallatin County Sheriff -Park County WY Sheriff -Park County MT Sheriff -Wyoming, Montanna and Idaho Game Wardens & Brand Inspectors -US Forest Service -Bureau of Land Management -Wyoming State Foresty

These agencies have jurisdiction in the park. -FBI -BATF -US Marshals Service

All park repeaters are 20 watt solar powered repeaters and are capable of analog and P25 digital operation. Law Enforcement rangers have the ability to transmit encypted when needed but generally operate in the clear. All park employee are issued radios for safety.

Mount Washburn - South of Tower/North of Canyon Village Henderson Mountain - Northeast Entrance Mount Holmes - Center of the northwest portion of the park Purple Mountain - Madison Junction Top Notch Peak -West of East Entrance Lamar Valley Bechler Mountain - South central backcountry JDR Parkway

No single repeater covers all of the park or in some cases, a large area. At times some repeaters may become linked for operational needs.

Repeater Locations/Use: North Repeater covers the following districts:

Mammoth District Lamar Valley District Canyon District

Holmes Repeater is the alternate coverage area

West Repeater: Old Faithful West West Yellowstone, Montana

Holmes Repeater is the alternate coverage repeater, primary repeater for Highway 191

South and Top Notch Repeaters:

Snake River District (Teton National Park, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway) Lake / East District

South and Topnotch are normally simulcasting each other via 24/7 patch setup due to South repeater coverage at the east entrance.

Park designators are as follows:

1 Park Superintendent's and headquarters staff including 2 deputy superintendents; chiefs of the divisions of interpretation, maintenance, visitor and resource protection; and administrative functions.

2,3,4: interpretive rangers, research, resource management (foresters, forestry crews, biologists, archaeologists, wilderness managers) with 2 being the north district, 3 the east district and 4 the south district. Most of these people use a three number designator with the second number representing functions. Some functions have more than ten functions so the numbers may be followed by the persons last name. Example; "462 Smith." The Interpretive Division has different geographical districts than protection and maintenance those being: West (Grant, Madison, Lake and Old Faithful) and North (Canyon, Mammoth and Norris)

700 Series: base stations. This is derived from the callsign of the park, "KOF700" 700 is the dispatcher, and the most often used functional base stations are: 700 Bravo= Backcountry Desk, 700 Charlie= Chief Ranger's Office, 700 Echo= Chief of Maintenance Office,700 Fox= Fire Management Desk, 700 Lima= Law Enforcement Desk, 700 November= Chief of Interpretation Office and 700 Sierra= Park Superintendent's Office.

701, 702 are base stations such as ranger stations, entrance stations, and the like. The Park Service is moving away from using these in favor of their names, i.e. "West Entrance" "instead of 702, Bechler Ranger Station" or just "Bechler" instead of 7 One that may still be in use is "702 Papa," which is the West Yellowstone PD. the stations can sign off using their callsign, e.g. the Bechler Ranger Station would sign off as "KOF731."

9 Maintenance Division. This includes roads, trails and building maintenance; and water/wastewater, vehicle maintenance, crafts, carpentry, painting, plumbing, electrical; boardwalk and trail maintenance. It is unknown how each person is identified. This division's districts are: North/Tower/Beartooth, Canyon, Lake, Grant and West.

Division of Visitor and Resource Protection:

5,6,7 are protection rangers. Protection includes these functions: law enforcement, structural and wildland fire protection, EMS and search and rescue. These numbers are assigned by the general area involved with 5 being north, 6 being east and 7 being south. These numbers are followed by the alpha designator for the district assigned, then two numbers as shown below..

5C10 district ranger in Canyon 6O16 field ranger Old Faithful.. LE numbers use 10-20 and then 30-40.

10 District Ranger 11 Deputy District Ranger 12 Supervisory Ranger (shift supervisor) 13 Backcountry Supervisory Ranger 14-20 Field rangers 30 Supervisory Seasonal LE Ranger 31-40 Seasonal LE rangers

Alpha - NPS special agents, US Marshals, Court Security, Administration Bravo - Bechler District Charlie - Canyon (Central) Delta - Lamar River/Northeast District Echo - East Entrance (East central) Fox or Foxtrot - Fishing Bridge Golf - Grant/West Thumb Hotel - Mammoth, Headquarters,North Entrance) Kilo - Lamar District Lima - Lake (Lake Yellowstone area) Mike - Madison November - Norris Oscar - Old Faithful Romeo - Roosevelt Sierra - South Entrance Tango - Tower Whiskey - West District (West and Northwest)