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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

San Antonio

Baton Rouge

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
123.02500  CBP/ICE TFR Ops VHF Sec
123.05000  West Jefferson Hospital
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

Hurricane Rita Other Audio Feed's Operations

HF Amateur Radio Nets

These are dead link's below. Ether fix this audio feed or delete them.

TV News coverage of Hurricane Katrina

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)

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)