Hurricane Rita

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Radio System's Status

The following is known about Public Safety Communications Systems in the affected areas. If you have updates, please add them below!

Texas

• Galveston
• Houston
• Beaumont
• Austin
• San Antonio
• Dallas / Fort Worth

Louisiana

• Lake Charles

Live Feeds of Public Safety Communications

Houston

• http://ve3nsv.no-ip.org:8000/houstonfire.m3u (Houston Fire Dept.)(150 Listeners) (Relays Welcome contact "icecast at weatherserver.net" for special relay mount info.)
• http://72.236.172.163:8088 Relay - Central Florida

San Antonio

• http://www.radioreference.com:8080/satx_rita.m3u (San Antonio Fire / Mutual Ops) (Relays Only Please)
• http://stream.bsdshout.com:8000/listen.pls (San Antonio TX: Interagency, DPS, Air, Local FD's) IRC-News.Com - Radio Scanner - Hurricane Rita Relay (300+ Slots Clustered)

Baton Rouge

NOTE: (24-Sep-2005 09:30 CDT) I am experiencing occasional power glitches which shuts down the computer. Hopefully, any stream outages should be temporary.

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 (20 User Limit - Please Use as Relay Source Only)(Working as of 1:00PM CST 9/11/2005)
  • 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://ve3nsv.no-ip.org:8000/louisiana.m3u - 100 clients max
  • http://yp.peercast.org/?find=08FDCCE699431659F7EAFC3DBF9B3858 - Requires Peercast - Download Peercast - Click Play in link to play

Left Channel During the break in aircraft activity due to Rita, the left channel will be broadcasting Baton Rouge PD, Fire and EMS.

Right Channel Louisiana System Site #1 Smartzone in Baton Rouge 656 Troop B F1 688 Troop B F2 784 Troop B Car2Car 848 Troop B Detect 880 Troop B Detect 912 Troop B EXEC/SEC 944 Troop B Dept PS 976 Troop B LSP-1 1008 Troop B LSP-2 1040 Troop B Coord 1072 Troop B Coord T1 1104 Troop B Coord T2 1200 Troop B Fire 7088 St. Police TAC 1 7120 St. Police TAC 2 5776 State Police HQ 5904 Statewide 1 5936 Statewide 2 6032 State Police 6064 Capitol Police 6800 State Police 6544 U.S. Customs 6576 Task Force 1 6608 Task Force 2 6640 Task Force 3 6672 Task Force 4 6704 Task Force 5 6736 Task Force 6 6768 Task Force 7 7056 State Police F2 20496 OEP - A 20624 OEP - B 20752 OEP - C 20880 OEP - D 21008 OEP - E 21136 OEP - F 21264 OEP - G 21392 OEP - I 21520 OEP - L 20528 Guard Admin - A 20560 Guard Ops - A 20592 Guard Sec - A 20656 Guard Admin - B 20688 Guard Ops - B 20720 Guard Sec - B 20784 Guard Admin - C 20816 Guard Ops - C 20848 Guard Sec - C 20912 Guard Admin - D 20944 Guard Ops - D 20976 Guard Sec - D 21040 Guard Admin - E 21072 Guard Ops - E 21104 Guard Sec - E 21168 Guard Admin - F 21200 Guard Ops - F 21232 Guard Sec - F 21296 Guard Admin - G 21328 Guard Ops - G 21360 Guard Sec - G 21424 Guard Admin - I 21456 Guard Ops - I 21488 Guard Sec - I 21552 Guard Admin - L 21584 Guard Ops - L 21616 Guard Sec - L 21648 Guard Civil Supp 33584 Red Cross - Baton Rouge 33616 Red Cross - New Orleans 33648 Red Cross - Houma 33680 Red Cross - Lake Charles 33712 Red Cross - Alexandria 33744 Red Cross - Monroe 33776 Red Cross - Shreveport 33808 Red Cross - Lafayette 33840 Red Cross - Convington 30768 WLF - 6 Dispatch 30800 WLF - 6 Patrol 30928 WLF - 6 Talk 31184 WLF - 7 Dispatch 31216 WLF - 7 Patrol 31344 WLF - 7 Talk 31600 WLF - 8 Dispatch 31632 WLF - 8 Patrol 31760 WLF - 8 Talk 32016 WLF - 9 Dispatch 32048 WLF - 9 Patrol 32176 WLF - 9 Talk

Hurricane Rita Other Audio Feed's Operations

• http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=326751&file=filename.pls Hurricane Rita (San Antonio HAM, Public Safety, Air)
• http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=834848&file=filename.pls Watching Hurricane Rita from Hurricane Hollow Weather
• http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=2020&file=filename.pls IRC-News.Com - Radio Scanner - Hurricane Rita
• http://scandfw.com/dpddfd.m3u Dallas Police and Fire Dept Live Feed

HF Amateur Radio Nets

• http://w4atc.ece.ncsu.edu:8000/live.m3u W4ATC Scanner
• http://w4atc.ece.ncsu.edu:8000/live.m3u W4ATC Scanner Skywarn on the local 146.880 in Raleigh, N.C. website is
• http://www.caryncrepeater.com/ K4JDR Repeater & Link System
• http://142.167.186.130:8000/listen.pls - Hurricane Katrina recovery HF communications (scanner) - various channels (30 Listeners)
• http://ve3nsv.no-ip.org:8000/Hurricane.m3u (WX-VOIP Hurricane Net)(100 Listeners)
• http://209.189.239.77:8048/listen.pls - HF Hurricane Katrina Watch Net /Health and Welfare - KA4EPS Deerfield Beach, FL
• http://live.irlp.net:8100/listen.pls During Hurricane season, Kevin KD5WX maintains the http://www.voipwx.net/ site daily and are called by the NHC to activate the net, concurrent with the HF watch nets. VoIP Hurricane Net streaming
• http://scandfw.com/scan4.m3u Hurricane Watch Net on 14.325 MHz via RX320

TV News coverage of Hurricane Katrina

• http://hurricane.weatherserver.net (Multiple TV,Radio,Scanner Feeds)
• http://www.hurricanecity.com/live.ram
• http://www.hurricanecity.com Hurricanecity Atlantic Hurricane Tracking website
• http://www.webcamplaza.net/cams/hurricane1.html

Communications / Rescue Operations

VHF / UHF Operations

San Antonio
San Antonio is is the primary staging ground for FEMA operations.

• 866.5125 - NPSPAC-2 - FEMA Communications Command
• 155.3400 - San Antonio EMS Shelter Ops (patched from 800 mhz)
• 155.4600 - DPS convoy escorts (car to car)

Houston

•  ??

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

• SECURE Texas DPS & TxDOT HF network (unconfirmed)
  1. 2326.0
  2. 2419.0
  3. 2422.0
  4. 2587.0
  5. 2801.0
  6. 2804.0
  7. 2812.0
  8. 5140.0
  9. 5192.0
  10. 5195.0
  11. 7802.0
  12. 7805.0
  13. 7932.0
  14. 7935.0

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
• 7.260 LSB - Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Coordination (daytime)