Hurricane Katrina
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Radio Systems Statuses
The following is known about Public Safety Communications Systems in the affected areas.
If you have updates, please add them below!
Louisiana
- NOPD's Wide Area EDACS ProVoice system is currently DOWN and NOT operational. The system survived the initial hurricane, but subsequent flooding has knocked out generators. Currently, NOPD is working off of NPSPAC-1 and NPSPAC-2, with 1 being dedicated to all east bank operations, and 2 being dedicated to west bank operations. NOFD and EMS operations are unknown at this time.
- St Tammany Parish's EDACS ProVoice system is currently DOWN and NOT operational. Units are using legacy VHF repeaters (Covington Fire?) for all communications.
- Most sites for the Lousisiana State Smartzone system are operational, however reports indicate that the North Shore Smartzone sites are currently down. Communications are occuring on the Smartzone system in the New Orleans Metro Area.
- The Bridge City Site is Down
- The LaPlace Site is UP
- Northshore Sites are Down
Mississippi
- Harrison County EDACS system is currently operational
- Gulfport - Unknown
- Biloxi - Unknown
Alabama
- Mobile - Unknown
Live Feeds of Public Safety Communications
David Hitchner's Feed
David Hitchner in Baton Rouge is providing a dual stereo feed from Baton Rouge.
The Right Channel is in Search mode providing all of Baton Rouge's State system site freqs. The Left channel is providing US Customs/US Coast Guard Operations. This feed can be found here:
- The Main Feed: http://www.radioreference.com:8080/lspbtr.m3u (100 User Limit - Please Use as Relay Source Only)
- http://aurora.foghaven.net:8000/LSP.m3u - 1000 users max
- http://nola-intel.org:8003/fema - 1000 users max, Bandwidth donated by 15minuteservers.com
- http://mirror1.ev1helps.net:8080/lspbtr.m3u - 2000 users max
- http://stfunoob.com/nola/scanner.pls - 2500 users max
- http://us3.comclub.org:8000/fema_scanner - 1000 users
- http://radio2.wrpn.net:5000/nola_scanner.m3u - 32 clients max; located in Columbus, OH, USA
- http://stream.etherkiller.de:8000/no2.mp3
- http://fyreplace.com:12345 - 50 clients max; located in Houston, TX, USA
- http://radio.artplz.com:8000/BatonRouge - 600 clients max; located in Dallas, TX, USA
- http://egg.dishnuts.net:8000/LASP.m3u - 100 clients max; located in Boise, ID, USA
- http://69.18.113.212:8088 - 50 streams; located in Central Florida
- http://hostamazing.com/nola/scanner.pls
123.00000 Air to Air 123.02500 CBP/ICE TFR Ops VHF Sec 134.90000 CBP/ICE TFR Ops VHF Pri 138.45000 USCG Scene Coordination 142.25000 USCG Scene Coordination 237.90000 USCG Operations Secondary 238.60000 USCG Scene Coordination 282.42500 CBP/ICE TFR Ops UHF (BLUE-1) 283.65000 USCG Scene Coordination 289.65000 USCG Scene Coordination 326.15000 USCG Air to Ground Primary 345.00000 USCG Operations Primary 379.05000 USCG Air to Ground Secondary |
Louisiana System Site #1 Smartzone in Baton Rouge All TGs |
Feed by Dustin Childers
Dustin Childers (dustin@esportsea.com, AIM: dstnbk), located in West Monroe Louisiana (NW area of the state), is streaming talkgroups from the State Smartzone site located there:
- The Main Feed: http://205.252.89.181:8000/live.m3u (400 User Limit - Please Use as Relay Source Only)
- http://nola-intel.org:8001/scan - 1000 users max, Bandwidth donated by 15minuteservers.com
- http://ev1helps.net:8000 - 2000 users max
- http://aurora.foghaven.net:8000/LALMR.m3u - 1000 users max
- http://stfunoob.com/nola/scanner.pls - 2500 users max, Both scanner streams
- http://us3.comclub.org:8000/no_scanner - 1000 users max
- http://216.22.26.45:8002 - 200 users max
- http://tinyurl.com/dc4tx
- http://64.202.112.69:8080/scanner
- http://www.homecomputersecurity.net:8000
- http://216.66.21.240:8000
- http://66.98.242.32:8000
- http://ve3nsv.no-ip.org:8000/louisiana.m3u - 100 users max
- http://www.firefeeds.com/feedroom/la-neworleans.html - listen in-page
Talkgroups being monitored are:
- 656 LSP Troop B F1
- 41264 Office of Public Health
- 20656 National Guard B - Admin
- 20688 National Guard B - Ops
- 20720 National Guard B - Security
- 6800 LSP Statewide F1
- 43376 Louisiana Hospital Association
Houston AstroDome Operations
- http://stream.etherkiller.de:8000/no.mp3
- http://radio.artplz.com:8000/NewOrleans.mp3.m3u - 600 clients max; located in Dallas, Texas, USA
- http://broadcast.umbc.edu:8000/nola-scanner
- http://www.goodphuck.com:8088/listen.pls
- http://egg.dishnuts.net:8000/NewOrleans.m3u - 125 Clients max; Located in Boise, ID, USA
San Antonio Operations
HF Amateur Radio Nets
- http://68.6.31.23:8000/listen.pls -Satern Net Hurricane Disaster Communications 14265.0 (12 Listeners)
- http://142.167.186.130:8000/listen.pls - Hurricane Katrina recovery HF communications (scanner) - various channels (30 Listeners)
- http://ve3nsv.no-ip.org:8000/canwarnlive.m3u - Gulf Coast Emergency ARES Net (80 meter Gulf Coast ARES Net 3.873) (300 Listeners)
- http://209.189.239.77:8048/listen.pls - HF Hurricane Katrina Watch Net /Health and Welfare - KA4EPS Deerfield Beach, FL
- http://207.44.198.6:8000/listen.pls - (K4MFC Hurricane Welfare Information Feed 3873KHZ) (32 Listeners)
Callsigns in Use on the Feeds
BASE on the Louisiana State System
Bayou77 EOC -- Bayou77 Emerg. Ops. Center Bulldog JOC -- Military Police Joint Ops. Center Eagle Base -- Colonels For Ft Bood 4 Avn Btn HQ ## -- Various Headquarters set up around the area. New Orleans EOC -- New Orleans Emerg. Ops. Center Pelican Base -- Aircraft Joint Ops Center Region 9 EOC -- Region 9 Emerg. Ops. Center Saint Charles EOC -- St. Charles Emerg. Ops. Center State EOC -- Louisiana State Emerg. Ops. Center
MOBILES on the Louisiana State System
Airvac ## -- Patient evacuation heli's flying to and from hospitals Bulldog # -- Military Police Units Defender 1 -- Military Aircraft providing coverage near troops operating in city area (SWAT) Dragon 15 -- Unk. Eagle ## = 4th Avn Btn out of Fort Hood TX (Just back from Iraq) Fuel Mobile 1 -- Fuel Truck Fuel Mobile 2 -- Fuel Truck Fuel Mobile 3 -- Fuel Truck seemed to be primarily for medical centers earlier Omaha ## -- Unknown Pelican 6 -- Military aircraft working rescue operations. Pelican 3 -- Military aircraft working rescue operations. Tiger 5 -- Unk. Thunderbird -- Oklahoma Air National Guard Viper -- Cobra Attack Helo
US Coast Guard / US Customs / US Navy
HAMMER - US Customs / ICE / CBP C3I --> March AFB CA Omaha 44 - US Customs P-3 AWACS Out of Corpus Christi TX Omaha 45 - US Customs P-3 AWACS Out of Corpus Christi TX Omaha ## - US Customs Aircraft CLOSEOUT - US Navy E2C Hawkeye AWACS Control Aircraft NOLA AIR - US Coast Guard New Orleans MOBILE AIR - US Coast Guard Mobile AL RESCUE ## - US Coast Guard
Rescue Operations
VHF/UHF Operations
You can only hear these in the local area -- to monitor, see the feed above.
- 123.000 and 123.025 AM is used for helo intercoordination in the New Orleans Metro area.
- 345.000 is the USCG Primary Air to Air / Air to Ground Frequency.
- 282.425 is the US Custom BLUE-1 primary channel. Omaha 44 (US Customs P-3 AWACS out of Corpus Christi) is providing the primary TFR operational logistics on this freq, his VHF freq is 134.900 pri / 123.450 backup.
- Marine Channel 16 (156.8) and 22 (157.100) are used by the USCG for operations.
- 238.650, 289.650, 138.450, and 142.250 have been passed as New Orleans Scene Communications Frequencies.
HF Operations
- The USCG is using their HF frequencies of 5696, 8983, 11202 USB for long distance comms. 11202 is the primary scene HF frequency for daytime operations.
- The Department of Homeland Security Assets, USCG, and ICE are using the COTHEN network extensively for comms.
- US Government SHARES (Shared Resources) freuquency assignments for Katrina response (traffic is being handled and has been monitored on the primary frequencies):
- 14.396.5 - Primary national frequency (day)
- 14.455.0 - Alternate national frequency (day)
- 7.632.0 - Primary national frequency (night)
- 9.064.0 - Alternate national frequency (night)
- 5.901.0 - Alternate national frequency (night)
- 3.216.0 - Primary regional frequency (night)
- 3.361.0 - Alternate regional frequency (night)
- 4.513.0 - Alternate regional frequency (night)
- Also see the Utility Monitoring page for extensive frequency lists and other information
Amateur Radio - Ham Radio Operations
14325 USB - Primary Hurricane Net Related Operations
14265 USB - SATERN Net (Salvation Army Relief Network)
7.285 LSB - Emergency traffic day primary
3.873 LSB - Emergency traffic night primary
7.290 LSB - Health and Welfare traffic day primary
3.935 LSB - Health and Welfare traffic night primary