[MilCom] RE: Hurricane Frances

[Larry Van Horn]

Master Joe wrote:
>Someone probably posted this same question when Hurricane Charlie
blasted  
>through, but where can I find some good HF hurricane monitoring freqs? 

For what seems like the forty millionth time this hurricane season ;-)
(remember I get hundreds of phone calls here in the MT office): 

The best, most complete and most up-to-date list for hurricane
monitoring frequencies is on MT columnist Hugh Stegman's Utility World
website. You can go directly to
http://www.ominous-valve.com/hurricne.txt or we have a link to it on the
Monitoring Times website on our huge Reference Library page. You will
also find a link in that Ref Library to our huge "HF Hot 1000 frequency
list" that has a lot of freqs that are productive in hurricane
monitoring.  As far as Hugh's list goes if you find any other list on
the net is it usually an old, old version of his list (you can recognize
those cause they still list MacDill on 11176 and the old HF Hurricane
Hunter freqs).

There are three things you need to remember about hurricane monitoring:

1. Hurricane Hunter no longer pass detailed reports on HF. This is done
digitally via secure UHF Milsat channels and can not be monitored. You
can see their detailed reports on the www.nhc.noaa.gov website.  All the
old Hurricane Hunter freqs are history. After Andrew when the new NHC
was built, those old HH HF antennas were not reinstalled. The only HF
capability that NHC has today is ham radio, period!

2. You will occasionally catch the Hurricane Hunters doing phone patches
for the media aboard and to the media on the USAF MARS HF aircraft phone
patch net primarily 13.927 MHz USB. You will find the other freqs that
could be used at other times of the day or night on the WUN club website
(below) in my monthly MLA (this is our large HF Military/Government
frequency list) column in the newsletter.

3. The best live reports will be heard on the Ham Hurricane Net (14325
kHz USB). 
http://www.wx4nhc.org/  Ham National Hurricane Center shack
http://www.hwn.org/ Hurricane Watch Net
Disaster aid and health and welfare traffic is done on the SATERN HF Net
on 14.265 USB. Their website is http://satern.org/ecom.html

To Jason and.or Ary can we please add this to the WUN FAQ. We get this
question much to often on all the various monitor list to not add this
to that listing. Maybe we can put it on someplace prominent on the WUN
website (www.wunclub.com) as well. 73 all and to all my very close
monitor friends in Florida, Gayle and I have you in our prayers. Please
stay safe. Now maybe my phone won't ring off the hook this afternoon.

Chief

Larry Van Horn, N5FPW USN (Ret)
Monitoring Times Assistant Editor and Milcom Columnist
WUN Military/Government Newsletter Columnist
Grove Enterprises Technical Support Department
Telephone: V-828-837-9200/F-828-837-2216/800-438-8155


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Ladies (are there any here?) and Gents;
 
Someone probably posted this same question when Hurricane Charlie
blasted  
through, but where can I find some good HF hurricane monitoring freqs?
Thanks in 
 advance for all the help that I know I will get (because I always do,
and 
nobody  treats me like I am an idiot).
 
John
Indy
393813.783N, 860720.869W
Kenwood R-600, longwire  oriented NW to SE, Slinky oriented NE to SW
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