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Houston Metro Area Response

Live Audio Feeds

Harris County Sheriff and Constables Dispatch - Covering rescue operations across Harris County and EOC/Interop communications

Houston Police Dispatch - North - Covering HPD and rescue operations across the city of Houston. Interop and EOC communications as well.

City / County

Texas Wide Area Radio Network (TxWARN) (P25)

Primary Trunked Radio System in use in Houston, Harris County, and surrounding areas.

Mutual Aid Talkgroups in use

1161 HC MA 5 1171 HC EM 2 1173 HC EM 3 2027 DPS Air Operations 2216 GCI 7 2217 GCI 8 2220 GCI 11 3229 National Weather Service 3626 HC MA 8 3630 HC MA 10 4060 WARN 1 4071 WARN 12 4087 HC MA 12 4088 HC MA 13 45301 X-ICS 3 45302 X-ICS 4 45304 X-ICS 6 45307 X-ICS 9 45308 X-ICS 10 45349 CoH 10F

Mutual Aid Frequencies

151.1375 156.7 PL - DPS Air Command Post (VTAC11) 769.14375 NAC $293 - Interop 769.74375 NAC $293 - Interop - Harris County EOM

Aviation

123.0250 - Helicopter Air to Air 123.4500 - Air to Air - Aviation Rescue Interop 125.0250 - BLACK AIR 130.3000 - USCG AIr coordination 119.5750 - Spring TX CCP (Callsign SWITCHBLADE)

State Government

151.1375 156.7 PL - DPS Air Command Post (VTAC11) 156.2175 NAC $162 - DPS Air - Helo cooridnation

Federal Operations

408.8625 NAC $421 - FEMA USAR 1/2 Encrypted 409.0625 NAC $421 - FEMA USAR 7/8 Encrypted

Military / Coast Guard / Customs and Border Protection

DHS CBP P-3Cs providing air support for CBP assets (helos)

USAF 102d Rescue Sq providing H-3 helos for rescues and KING-xx C-130s air refueling and support

USAF E-3Cs AWACS providing air surveillance and communications support

US Coast Guard providing marine and air rescue support

165.3125 NAC $293 - US Coast Guard Net-121 - Airborne Command Post (AES Encrypted) 168.8375 NAC $293 - CBP Air-1 - CBP Airborne Command Post Air to Air 166.7875 NAC $293 - CBP Air-8 - CBP Airborne Command Post Air to Ground (HAMMER) 136.3750 AM - CBP Air to Air 231.8250 AM - USAF intercoord between AWACS / KING C-130s / CBP P-3s (Beaumont Port Arthur Sector) 252.8000 AM - USAF / USCG Airborne Command Post / Tasking 271.0000 AM - USAF Air Refueling 290.1500 DG - Intercoord TADIL-J Link 303.1000 AM - USAF intercoord between AWACS / KING C-130s / CBP P-3s (Houston Sector) 335.9500 AM - USAF E-3C Callsign WIZARD wkg BLACK GATOR 345.0000 AM - US Coast Guard Helos 350.0250 AM - CBP / Coast Guard 364.2000 AM - NORAD AICC E-3 AWACS to BIGFOOT

263.9250 (downlink) / 297.5250 (uplink) - UHF Satcom "CONR-3" Western Air Defense Sector (WADS) (encrypted VINSON)

Amateur Radio / Volunteers

145.3700 123.0 PL - Houston ARES Previous (abandoned due to interference) 146.8400 103.5 PL - Houston Emergency Center 146.9400 167.9 PL - Houston ARES Current (temporary) 146.9200 103.5 PL - Houston Area Skywarn (Saltgrass link system) 443.8250 103.5 PL - Houston Area Skywarn (Saltgrass link system)

San Antonio Metro Area Response

City / County

San Antonio EDACS Trunking System

The primary system in use in San Antonio and Bexar County. Talkgroups in use for the response include

1898 - M AID-25 - Bexar County / San Antonio Command Post (patched to 333 - SAPD 1-O Traffic) 1908 - M AID-34 - Texas Task Force Dispatch and Tasking 1825 - M AID-46 - Patch to VTAC11 - 151.1375 1902 - M AID-29 - Patch has been setup to TG 1820 (Unknown)

Mutual Aid Frequencies

159.4725/C156.7 - Car to car, waiting for traffic, turn on this street, etc - VTAC 14 151.1375/C156.7 - VTAC11 154.2725/C156.7 - VFIRE24 154.2650/156.7 VFIRE22 - "All strike team leaders, all MVP leaders report to Command Post" 154.2725/156.7 VFIRE24 - "We're picking up supplies now at the Freeman" 155.7525/C156.7 - VCALL 10 - car to car, "find a big truck stop to stop at." 159.4725/C156.7 - VTAC 14 - "All units on VTAC 14, we are also waiting for ten buses and an EMT AM-BUS to go with our convoy as well." 851.5125/C156.7 - 8TAC91 852.5125/C156.7 - 8TAC93 453.8625/C156.7 - UTAC 43 - "walk me through and we can set up the apparatus radio." 453.2125/C156.7 - UCALL 40 - Radio tests

State Government

156.2175 (P25) - [ DPS Air ] - DPS-107 is helping with traffic coordination on the interstates 155.4450 (P25) - [ DPS Mobile 1 ] Car to Car for units arriving into San Antonio to coordinate 156.1350/C100.0 TXDOT Talk 4 - "Traiffic is going 65, barely" 159.4350/C114.8 - Discussing hotel, restaurant, downtown. TX Forest Tac 7. 159.2850/C156.7 - Texas A&M Forest Service COMPACT 159.2850/C156.7 - Forestry COMPACT - several units talking. 159.4350/C114.8 - Forestry TAC 7 - "I'm in the parking lot getting loaded up, come over here 151.4750/C114.8 - TX Forest TAC 8 - Mobile to mobile 159.2850/C156.7 - TX COMPACT - "We may have to divert to Corpus, I37 will be the route." 159.4350/C114.8 - TX Forest TAC 7 - Looking for a What-A-Burger

Federal Operations

163.1125 NAC $169 CBP 165.2125 NAC $001 USSS (ENC) 165.3750 NAC $001 USSS (ENC) 166.7375 NAC $314 - A convoy or group of vehicles traveling together on I-37 169.7000 NAC $293 DHS - Common LE2 170.88125 NAC $167 FBI - D15/D16 410.8375 167.9 PL - "Texas Task Force" - IR12/IR18 - SAR Incident Command

Military

36.9000/C150.0 - Army NG Helicopters en-route Corpus Christi 42.5000/C150.0 - "It will be awhile before they arrive" <local> 55.0000/C150.0 - "Commo One"

Amateur Radio / Volunteers

47.4200 146.2 PL - Red Cross, no audio, someone keying a mic