[FedCom] FEMA

[Jason]

I remember hearing them back in 1997 when Hurricane Danny hit here. They had 
setup a
repeater for about a week and there was traffic in the 140 MHz range.

I didn't look for them after Ivan and Katrina...

Jason
W4IRQ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rankin, Robert L" <rankin at ku.edu>
To: "Discussion of Federal Government Communications" 
<fedcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 10:06 AM
Subject: RE: [FedCom] FEMA


> FEMA has been history in the 138-144 MHz band for sometime now. I can 
> verify
that they were no longer authorized in this band as far back as 1993 and
wrote about that in MT. Of course, some book publications and magazine
columnist are incapable of throwing away a freq, even when the evidence says
otherwise.

I'm not so sure.  I've heard 138.225, 140.025 and 141.725 in use in the 
Kansas City area long after 1993.  I suspect they're still authorized for 
many or most of the military land mobile channels in the 138-144 MHz. 
range -- perhaps not under the "FEMA" name, but as a factual matter.

> FEMA now has its own nationwide network in the UHF range and this to has
been reported here and in MT by our most able scribe, Mr. Chris Parris.

It has its S&R portables on uhf, but that's only one of their systems.  Too 
bad FEMA  kept such a "low profile" in New Orleans (LOL) or we might know 
more.  I guess they were still thinking of themselves as agents of "National 
Security" instead of having the responsibility of actually helping people 
during a disaster.  Hopefully that's changed now.

Bob, w0nxn




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