Hurricane Katrina

Radio Systems Status

The following is known about Public Safety Communications Systems in the affected areas:

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 Lousisian 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 in Baton Rouge is providing a dual stereo stream of the LSP System. The Left Channel is in Search mode providing all of Baton Rouge's State system site freqs. The other channel is providing Troop A and Troop B rebroadcast. 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://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

• PFish, located in NW Louisiana, is streaming talkgroups from the State Smartzone site located there:
  • The Main Feed: http://205.252.89.181:8000/live.m3u (300 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://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

Callsigns in Use on the Louisiana State System

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.
Bulldog JOC(?) -- Military Police Joint Ops. Center(?)
State EOC -- Louisiana State Emerg. Ops. Center
Pelican Base -- Aircraft Base.
Eagle Base -- Eagle Base is the Colonels operation location
New Orleans EOC -- New Orleans Emerg. Ops. Center
Defender 1 -- Military Aircraft providing coverage near troops operating in city area (SWAT)
Saint Charles EOC -- St. Charles Emerg. Ops. Center
Region 9 EOC -- Region 9 Emerg. Ops. Center
Bayou77 EOC -- Bayou77 Emerg. Ops. Center
Bulldog 6 -- Military Police Unit
Defender 5 -- Military Aircraft
Essler(?) Ops -- Essler(?) Operations Center
Dragon 15 -- Unk.
Pelican JOC(?) -- Aircraft Joint Ops. Center(?)
Eagle 5 -- Unk.
Defender 6 -- Military Aircraft
Pelican 3 Alpha -- Military Aircraft (Help with the Alpha)
Tiger 5 -- Unk.
Eagle 2 Alpha -- Unk.
Bulldog 3 -- Military Police Unit