Actions

Hurricane Katrina

From The RadioReference Wiki

Revision as of 11:49, 4 September 2005 by Blantonl (talk | contribs)

Introduction

First, you can edit and update information on this page yourself. Click on "Log in" at the top, create an account, and please update this page with the latest info.

Second, please only post radio communications related information on this wiki page.

Another Great Source:

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
  • 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:

Left Channel
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
Right Channel
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:

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

San Antonio Operations

Other Audio Feed's Operations

HF Amateur Radio Nets

Other HF Amateur Radio Nets

TV coverage of Hurricane Katrina

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
OEP -- Office of Energy and Planning
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

State Police Troops
Louisiana State Police Troops

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.
  • 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.

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 Intl Airport Ops - Callsign: SUPERMAN
  • 351.200 MOBILE AIR Primary
  • 233.375 USS BATTAN Primary
  • 138.125 Burman LZ Primary

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)
    1. 5236.0 Ch.1 (night voice primary)
    2. 14396.5 Ch.2 (daytime voice primary), also old National Communications System pri
    3.  ? Ch.3
    4. 7632.0 Ch.4
    5. 9106.0 Ch.5
    6.  ? Ch.6
    7. 20107.0 Ch.7
    8. 26812.0 Ch.8
    9. 6800.0 Ch.9 (PACTOR BBS)
    10. 13242.0 Ch.10
  • SHARES Coordination Network ALE
    1.  ? Ch.1
    2.  ? Ch.2
    3. 4490.0 Ch.3
    4. 5711.0 Ch.4
    5.  ? Ch.5
    6. 11217.0 Ch.6
    7. 15094.0 Ch.7
    8. 17487.0 Ch.8
  • SHARES Users
    1. 4582.0 CAP, National Clg & Emergency, Pacific Alternate -Katrina tfc heard here
    2. 7381.0 US Navy MARS
    3. 7540.0 US Air Force MARS
    4. 7552.1 NTA
    5. 7635.0 CAP Command Net
    6. 9197.0 Federal Highway Administration
    7. 10493.0 National Emergency Coordination Net day primary, also FEMA Foxtrot 26
    8. 10586.5 new SCN channel Xray Foxtrot
    9. 10891.0 Federal Highway Administration
    10. 13457.0 Primary (old?) - also Federal Aviation Administration
    11. 13993.0 USAF MARS
    12. 13996.0 US Army MARS primary guard fq
    13. 14383.5 US Navy MARS
    14. 14493.5 Federal Bureau of Investigation
    15. 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