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.
THE ST. TAMMANY SHERIFF'S SYSTEM IS AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN FULLY OPERATIONAL.NO DOWN TIME PERIOD...RADIO MAINTENANCE DIVISION STPSO. SLIDELL PD'S TOWER FELL DOWN. ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ARE OPERATING ON THE EDACS SYSTEM
- 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
- Ad-Hoc Communications Systems
- Motorola has delivered a 700 MHz Communications trailer to the Louisiana State Police ,however it is unknown where it is being used.
- Remote agencies on site are using the following:
- Orange County FL Units - 800 MHz NPSPAC Simplex Direct
- Austin, TX Units - 800 MHz NPSPAC Simplex Direct
Mississippi
- Harrison County EDACS system is currently operational
- Gulfport - Unknown
- Biloxi - Unknown
Alabama
- Mobile - Unknown
live feed when working at http://www.al.com/mobilepolice/audio/index.ssf
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://hostamazing.com/nola/scanner.pls - Located in Enid, OK - 500 users max
- http://ve3nsv.no-ip.org:8000/louisiana.m3u
- http://69.18.113.212:8088 - 50 streams - located in Central Florida
- http://yp.peercast.org/?find=08FDCCE699431659F7EAFC3DBF9B3858 - Requires Peercast - Download Peercast - Click Play in link to play
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 (dchilders@gmail.com, Google Talk: dchilders@gmail.com), 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://www.firefeeds.com/feedroom/la-neworleans.html - listen in-page
- http://69.18.113.212:8888 - 50 users. Central Florida
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
- http://www.radioreference.com:8080/satx_katerina
- http://us3.comclub.org:8000/satx_scanner (Currently Working)
- http://www.gundevils.com:8000/satx_katerina (Mirror - 1000 users Dallas, Texas)
- http://www.midnightsoftware.co.uk/katerina3.m3u (Mirror - 100 users, UK) (REPEATING as of <22:53> EST)
Other Audio Feed's Operations
Someone Please Update this with where these feeds are broadcasting from?!?:
- http://stream.bsdshout.com:8000/listen.pls Katrina Disaster - Original NOLA feeds, National Guards in Louisiana, LSP in Baton Rouge, Houston (Astrodome), St Antonio (Airport).
- http://dir.xiph.org/listen.php?pid=2514334&file=listen.m3u Scan Cape Cod Special Event Feed Louisiana Scanner Relay
- http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=44237&file=filename.pls News - WMAT Online Radio - LIVE Louisiana Scanner Audio - Hurricane Katrina Disaster Relief Efforts
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) Alpha Group Tag's (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)
- http://www.ip-intel.com:8000/listen.pls K4MFC Hurricane Welfare Information Feed 3873KHZ
- http://audio.liveatc.net:8012/k5tr.m3u K5TR - West Gulf Coast AREA here in Johnson City, Texas
- http://www.arrl.org:8000/ (West Gulf ARES Emergency Net via arrp.org)
- http://audio.liveatc.net:8012/west_gulf_ares West Gulf ARES Emergency Net via arrp.org Mirror Audio Feed
Other HF Amateur Radio Nets
- http://w4atc.ece.ncsu.edu:8000/live.m3u W4ATC Student Amateur Radio Society Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network - 14.265 Mhz (realtime)
TV News coverage of Hurricane Katrina
- http://www.hurricanecity.com/live.ram Weather Audio Broadcast Network at * http://www.hurricanecity.com Hurricanecity Atlantic Hurricane Tracking
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 ## -- State Police Units Assigned to Headquarters New Orleans EOC -- New Orleans Emerg. Ops. Center OEP -- Office of Emergency Preparedness 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 Saint Bernhard EOC- Saint Bernhard 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 Pelican 6 -- Military aircraft working rescue operations. Pelican 3 -- Military aircraft working rescue operations. Refuel 2 -- Likely KC-130 Hercules tanker plane. Roughneck # -- Unknown. Tiger 5 -- Likely WC-130 Hercules cargo plane. Thunderbird -- Oklahoma Air National Guard Viper -- Cobra Attack Helo Viper LNO -- Viper Liaison Officer
US Coast Guard / US Customs / US Navy
Cactus 7407 - Unid HAMMER - US Customs / ICE / CBP C3I --> March AFB CA Hawk 01/04 - US Navy E2 Hawkeye - (ID'd as such 09/04/05) Omaha 44 - US Customs P-3 AWACS Out of Corpus Christi TX (New Orleans TFR) Omaha 45 - US Customs P-3 AWACS Out of Corpus Christi TX (Mississippi Coast TFR) 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 Quitter 11 - Unid RESCUE ## - US Coast Guard Wizard ## - Unid (helicopter) WOLF ## - US Navy VAW-77 E2-C AWACS Aircraft (assisting CBP Omaha P-3's) NAVY NEW ORLEANS - Bell Chase NAS
Rescue Operations
TFRs - Temporary Flight Restrictions
- New Orleans / Baton Rouge TFR - SIERRA LIMA (Airborn Early Warning AEW AWACS) is providing the primary TFR operational logistics and tasking to rescue aircraft in SE Louisiana.
- 282.425 Primary (BLUE-1 US Customs).
- 134.900 VHF Primary
- 123.450 VHF Backup
- FAA Link to the Offical TFR
- Mississippi Coast TFR - Omaha-45 (US Customs P-3 AWACS out of Corpus Christi) is providing the primary TFR operational logistics and tasking to rescue aircraft for the Mississippi Coast.
- 327.050 UHF Primary.
- 126.875 VHF Primary
- FAA Link to the Offical TFR
- Special Advisory - This Joint Task Force JTF advisory was posted to the MilCom mailing list on 04 Sept:
A0458/05 - SPECIAL ADVISORY.
FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS NEAR U.S. NAVY SHIPS OPERATING IN THE NORTH CENTRAL GULF OF MEXICO. ALL CIVIL, FEDERAL AND MILITARY ROTARY WING AIRCRAFT OPERATING IN THE VICINITY OF U.S. NAVY SHIPS WHILE CONDUCTING KATRINA DISASTER RELIEF MISSIONS SHALL CONTACT THE SHIP ON 277.8 UHF/123.45 VHF FREQS WITH CALLSIGN, POSITION, ALTITUDE, TRANSPONDER CODE, AND INTENTIONS. USE THE CALLSIGN "US NAVY SHIP" WHEN COMMUNICATING WITH THE SHIP. DO NOT APPROACH WITHIN 5 NM UNTIL CLEARED BY THE AIR CONTROLLER. IF UNABLE TO MAKE CONTACT ON THE COMMON FREQUENCY, ATTEMPT CONTACT ON GUARD. IF CONTACT IS NOT ESTABLISHED, DO NOT APPROACH CLOSER THAN 5NM UNLESS AN IN-FLIGHT EMERGENCY EXISTS AND AN IMMEDIATE LANDING IS REQUIRED. AIRCRAFT DESIRING TO TRANSIT CONTROL ZONE AIRSPACE WITHIN 5NM SHALL CLIMB TO 1000 FEET AGL AND MAINTAIN CONTACT WITH AIR CONTROLLERS UNTIL OUTSIDE 5 NM. ROTARY WING AIRCRAFT DESIRING TO LAND IN SUPPORT OF DISASTER RELIEF OPERATIONS WILL BE PROVIDED A DISCRETE FREQUENCY TO CONDUCT COORDINATION AND AIRCRAFT CONTROL. ONCE CLEARED APPROACH THE SHIP AT 300 FEET AGL AND LESS THAN 80 KNOTS WITHIN 5 NM. ALL AIRCRAFT ARE ADVISED OF HIGH DENSITY ROTARY WING OPERATIONS BELOW 500 FEET AGL IN VICINITY OF ALL U.S. NAVY SHIPS. WIE UNTIL UFN
A0444/05 (FDC 5/7903) - SPECIAL ADVISORY TITLE 14 CODE OF FEDERAL
REGULATIONS (14 CFR) PART 121 AND PART 135 OPERATIONS SPECIFICATIONS
PARAGRAPH A527 SPECIAL AUTHORIZATION FOR OPERATIONS INTO AIRPORTS AFFECTED
BY HURRICANE KATRINA. THE CERTIFICATE HOLDER IS AUTHORIZED TO CONDUCT FLIGHT
OPERATIONS WITHIN THE AIRSPACE AND TO AIRPORTS WITHIN THE TEMPORARY FLIGHT
RESTRICTIONS AREAS CREATED AS A RESULT OF HURRICANE KATRINA SUBJECT TO THE
FOLLOWING CONDITIONS AND LIMITATIONS.
A. PERMISSION TO ENTER THE TFR AND
LAND AT AIRPORTS WITHIN THE TFR MUST BE OBTAINED FROM THE APPROPRIATE
AGENCIES IN CHARGE.
B. TAKE OFF AND LANDING OPERATIONS ARE LIMITED TO VISUAL
FLIGHT RULES UNLESS THE ADEQUATE NAVIGATIONAL AIDS AND LIGHTING ARE
AVAILABLE.
C. DUE TO LIMITED SUPPLY OF FUEL, THE CERTIFICATE HOLDER MUST
INSURE ANY FUEL REQUIRED AT THE DESTINATION IS NOT CONTAMINATED, OTHERWISE,
ADEQUATE FUEL TO COMPETE THE MISSION MUST BE TINKERED.
D. UNDER THE PILOTS
EMERGENCY AUTHORITY, THE PILOT MAY DEVIATE FROM THE OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
OF PART 121 AND PART 135 IF, IN THE OPINION OF THE PILOT IN COMMAND, THE
OPERATION CAN CONTINUE IN A SAFE MANNER. WIE UNTIL UFN
A0441/05 (FDC 5/7895) - SPECIAL NOTICE JOINT TASK FORCE (JTF) KATRINA AIRSPACE CONTROL PLAN (ACP) PROCEDURES ARE IN EFFECT. ASSESSMENT, SEARCH, RESCUE, RECOVERY AND RECONSTITUTION OPERATIONS ARE IN EFFECT IN THE FEMA-DELCARED DISASTER AREA ALONG THE GULF COAST FROM BATON ROUGE, LA EAST TO MOBILE, AL. KATRINA JOINT OPERATIONS AREA (JOA): 3100N 09100W, 3100N 08730W, 2830N 08730W, 2830N 09100W SURFACE UP TO BUT NOT INCLUDING 5000 MSL. DETAILED PROCEDURES FOR OPERATING IN THIS AREA CAN BE FOUND AT WWW.FAA.GOV. PILOTS NOT PARTICIPATING IN FEMA OPERATIONS ARE ADVISED TO AVOID THE AIRSPACE ABOVE DUE TO THE HIGH VOLUME OF BOTH ROTARY AND FIXED WING AIRCRAFT UFN.
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.
- 126.875 is an additional TFR Coordination Frequency
- Marine Channel 16 (156.8) and 22 (157.100) are used by the USCG for operations.
- 238.650, 289.650, 138.450, 138.475, 138.525, and 142.250 have been passed as New Orleans Scene Communications Frequencies.
- 257.800 New Orleans Convention Center Ops - Callsign: SUPERMAN (IDed by Omaha 44)
- 351.200 MOBILE AIR Primary
- 233.375 USS BATAAN Tower
- 138.125 Berman Highway LZ (AM mode)
VHF/UHF Unid Users
- 228.900
- 321.300 Armed support
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) old?
- 5.901.0 - Alternate national frequency (night) old?
- 3.216.0 - Primary regional frequency (night) old?
- 3.361.0 - Alternate regional frequency (night) old?
- 4.513.0 - Alternate regional frequency (night) old?
Courtesy of Hugh Stegman's hurricane list
- SHARES Coordination Network (Voice/Pactor)
- 5236.0 Ch.1 (night voice primary)
- 14396.5 Ch.2 (daytime voice primary), also old National Communications System pri
- ? Ch.3
- 7632.0 Ch.4
- 9106.0 Ch.5
- ? Ch.6
- 20107.0 Ch.7
- 26812.0 Ch.8
- 6800.0 Ch.9 (PACTOR BBS)
- 13242.0 Ch.10
- SHARES Coordination Network ALE
- ? Ch.1
- ? Ch.2
- 4490.0 Ch.3
- 5711.0 Ch.4
- ? Ch.5
- 11217.0 Ch.6
- 15094.0 Ch.7
- 17487.0 Ch.8
- SHARES Users
- 4582.0 CAP, National Clg & Emergency, Pacific Alternate -Katrina tfc heard here
- 7381.0 US Navy MARS
- 7540.0 US Air Force MARS
- 7552.1 NTA
- 7635.0 CAP Command Net
- 9197.0 Federal Highway Administration
- 10493.0 National Emergency Coordination Net day primary, also FEMA Foxtrot 26
- 10586.5 new SCN channel Xray Foxtrot
- 10891.0 Federal Highway Administration
- 13457.0 Primary (old?) - also Federal Aviation Administration
- 13993.0 USAF MARS
- 13996.0 US Army MARS primary guard fq
- 14383.5 US Navy MARS
- 14493.5 Federal Bureau of Investigation
- 14902.0 CAP rescue and relief, all regions
Amateur Radio - Ham Radio Operations
14.325 USB - Primary Hurricane Net Related Operations
14.265 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
How to Help
- http://www.fema.gov/ Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- http://www.redcross.org/ American Red Cross - Preparing Communities for Emergencies and Keeping People Safe - Preparedness
- http://www.gladstoneslongbeach.com/ Gladstone's Long Beach California
- http://www.greaterlongbeachrc.org/main/home.asp?topic=HME&lngKey=en ARC Long Beach California
- http://www1.salvationarmy.org/socal The Salvation Army Southern California
- http://www.loep.state.la.us/ Louisiana Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness Home