Hurricane Gustav

If you have an online scanner that covers communications or operations in the affected areas and want to stream to the public safety and RR community, you can follow the instructions at the RR_Icecast page for details on how to use the RadioReference Icecast server.

To see the current online feeds: http://www.radioreference.com:8000/

As we get closer to landfall in the gulf coast region, this page will list live public safety radio feeds, statuses of key public safety communications systems, and other related information and data regarding the landfall and recovery from Hurricane Gustav.

Amateur Radio Communications Streams

• http://www.radioreference.com:8000/HURRWATCHNET.m3u - Single Sideband (SSB) Hurricane Watch Net Stream. (Subject to propagation and signal-strength variables.) Stream will only be active when reception quality is usable AND the "net" is active and not covered by noise or Foreign Broadcast Interference at night. Generally, the Net closes down from 10 PM through 1 PM the folowing day when the storm is off-shore. That is the case today.

• http://www.voipwx.net/ - VOIPWX.net supports the VoIP SKYWARN and Hurricane Nets which we operate by combining both the Echolink and IRLP linked repeater networks

• http://kc4qlp.dyndns.org:8082/ - The *KC4QLP-C* Echolink conference server, node 290251

• http://www.w2lie.net - Click Listen Live -> Ham Radio -> VOIPWXNET to listen. A relay of the above stream

Louisiana Online Communications Streams

• http://www.radioreference.com:8000/nola.mp3 - Streaming from New Orleans. Covering LATIE interop and emergency management channels

Mississippi Online Communications Streams

• None Yet

Texas Online Communications Streams

• http://www.radioreference.com:8000/satx.mp3 - San Antonio EVAC operations

HF Frequency Lists and Decoders

• Please see our Utility Monitoring article for hurricane related HF lists (amateur and other services), as well as DSC and SITOR compatible software. Watch the UDXF and other maritime related HF Yahoo groups for logs. FAX information is also linked there.
• Software is available - some of it free or very low cost - to monitor various HF modes, including digital selective calling. These packages are linked in the Utility Monitoring Central website, in the software page (which can be found in the article above). These are just a few possibilities;
  • DSC Decoder
  • MultiPSK
  • MultiMode(Mac software)
  • SeaTTY
  • SkySweeper

Radio, TV, and Webcam broadcast sites in affected areas

• http://jeftek.com/events/monitoring-hurricane-gustav/ - Monitoring Media Links

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