Lake Anna State Park

Spent the afternoon yesterday at Lake Anna State Park in Spotsylvania. The park continues to use 151.4000 [CSQ] for operations and law enforcement. A Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) law enforcement officer who was patrolling on foot appeared to have a 700/800 STARS portable, but I never saw him use it. Most of the DCR vehicles I saw had older VHF radios installed, probably only capable of the legacy 151.2350 and 151.4000 channels.

As for STARS sites, I had a difficult time picking up any of them from the park. The Fork Mountain site seemed to be the strongest, sometimes reaching five bars on the signal strength meter, but moving the scanner even slightly caused the signal to drop significantly. The Louisa site was able to be monitored, but it was not as strong as Fork Mountain. The only DCR talkgroups monitored were 2005 and 2013, but there was very little traffic on either. Department of Game and Inland Fisheries talkgroup 3236 (Law 5) was somewhat active throughout the afternoon.

The Coast Guard Auxiliary (unit 868) was using Marine Channel 21A (157.0500) to communicate with "Lake Anna Station." Lake Anna Station must have been at another location on Lake Anna, as they were somewhat weak from the state park.

Louisa Sheriff (155.5500) and Louisa Fire (155.8050) were very strong at the park.

The Spotsylvania trunked system was able to be monitored, but usually had a lot of static (much weaker than the Louisa channels).

The North Anna Power Station trunked system came in fairly well. The only talkgroup active, as expected, was security on 9648.