Scanning Louisville Area Disaster Communications

These are frequencies that would be useful to monitor before,during and after a natural or man made diasater occurs.These are frequencies for not only government agencies like FEMA, Kentucky National Guard and Kentucky Emergency Management but civilian organizations as well like SKYWARN, REACT, ARES, RACES, American Red Cross and WAVE and WLKY TV remote broadcast pickup.

                                  

                            SKYWARN Frequencies 

SKYWARN is the National Weather Service's volunteer storm spotter program.SKYWARN radio nets are set up on VHF and UHF ham radio frequencies during severe weather conditions.It's a good idea to monitor the SKYWARN spotter nets for up-to-the-second weather information.

   Frequency  TX Offset  Tone      Description            Mode

• 146.7000   -600KHz     79.7 PL       B.A.R.S. Repeater       FM
• 443.7000   -600KHz     151.4 PL     B.A.R.S. Repeater       FM

            

Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES)/Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) (In addition to the frequencies listed above the following frequencies are also used for RACES/ARES nets.RACES is an amateur radio organization who's mission is provide radio communications as needed during emergencies.Like RACES, ARES is also an amateur radio emergency communications organization and shares the same mission and goals,During an emergency or disaster it would be wise to monitor these frequencies.)

    Frequency   TX Offset  Tone    Description           Mode 

• 146.7450    -600KHz       None   Floyd Co. ARES/RACES  FM
• 147.0300    +600KHz       151.4  Jefferson Co RACES       FM
• 147.3900    +600KHz       151.4  Oldham Co RACES         FM
• 442.7250    +600KHz       151.4  Jefferson Co RACES       FM

                           

Radio Emergency Associated Communications Teams (REACT) (Like ARES/RACES, REACT is also an emergency communications organization but unlike their ham radio counterparts REACT not only uses amateur radio to get the message out but Citizans Band (CB) radio,General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS), Family Radio Service (FRS), VHF Marine radio and VHF Business band radio as well.They can usually be contacted on CB emergency channel 9 or on GMRS frequency 462.600)

    Frequency  CH      Description                  Mode

• 27.0650  CB-9  Louisville METRO-REACT         AM
• 462.6000  N/A  Louisville METRO-REACT          FM

                         

                          American Red Cross

     Frequency      Description                            

• 47.4200 American Red Cross Louisville Area
• 47.4600 American Red Cross Louisville Area

                            

         Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

          Frequency      Description                      

• 139.4500          FEMA  Kentucky
• 142.4000          FEMA
• 163.1000          FEMA    National Common
• 138.2250          FEMA    Nationwide Primary

                              

                  Kentucky Emergency Management

    Frequency        CH        Description

• 142.3500            F-1       Operations

                          Kentucky National Guard

Shared system with Kentucky Emergency Management.

WAVE TV Remote Broadcast Pickup (This frequencies are used to transmit the live video and audio from news crews on location.You can listen to an entire newscast over your scanner by tuning to one of these frequencies.) 

         Frequency      Description                               

• 161.0700   WAVE Remote Broadcast Pickup

WLKY TV Remote Broadcast Pickup (See above description.)

         Frequency           Description                          

• 450.3875   WLKY Remote Broadcast pickup

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