Shortwave Monitoring Frequencies Of Interest
On my way home from a training event last night I was having a brief conversation with a retired Air Force Officer who had helped coordinate the airlift for Katrina. To say he’s well-versed in disaster management is an understatement, along with quite a few other topics. One of the things we talked about was the logistics needed in the event of a larger-scale disaster. Best case scenario, the whole thing dies down and the virus mutates on into something harmless. But we neither plan nor train for best case scenarios, we prepare for the worst. And the we agreed that worst case scenario will start to unfold when people start to get hungry- and Americans ain’t hungry yet. Sourced from nat-com.org, the following is a list of frequencies that will likely have traffic in the event of a longer-term disaster and might be important to have written down somewhere.
These are receivable on any HF-capable radio, whether its a single-sideband shortwave radio or amateur (ham) rig. While I don’t recommend one as a starter or primary transmitting radio, the Xiegu G1M is a good receiver for this purpose due to it being inexpensive for what it is, up-to-date receiving electronics and power efficiency when running off-grid. Coupled with a hasty wire dipole you’re good to go.
Shared Resources (SHARES) Coordination Net (SCN)
Federal, State & Local government agencies nationwide.
5236.0 Channel 1 SCN Voice Net 14396.5 Channel 2 SCN Voice Net 4490.0 Channel 3 SCN ALE Net 5711.0 Channel 4 SCN ALE Net 9106.0 Channel 5 SCN ALE Net 11217.0 Channel 6 SCN ALE Net 15094.0 Channel 7 SCN ALE Net 17487.0 Channel 8 SCN ALE STI Net 6800.0 Channel 9 SCN BBS Net 13242.0 Channel 10 SCN BBS Net 10586.5 Channel XF
Operation Secure (USB)
2326 2411 2414 2419 2422 2439 2463 2466 2471 2474 2487 2511 2535 2569 2587 2801 2804 2812 5135 5140 5167 5192 5195 7477 7480 7802 7805 7932 kHz
American Red Cross (USB)
2081 3170 5135 5140 6858 7549 7697 kHz
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
All frequencies in kHz (mode USB and LSB)
Frequency 1 2320 Frequency 2 2360 Frequency 3 2377 Frequency 4 2445 Frequency 5/ALE 2658 Frequency 6/ALE 3341 Frequency 7 3379 Frequency 8 3388 Frequency 9 4603 Frequency 10 4780 Frequency 11 5211 Frequency 12 5378 Frequency 13 5402 Frequency 14 5821 Frequency 15 5961 Frequency 16/ALE 6049 Frequency 17 6106 Frequency 18 6108 Frequency 19 6151 Frequency 20 6176 Frequency 21/ALE 6809 Frequency 22/ALE 7348 Frequency 23 7428 Frequency 24/ALE 9462 Frequency 24/ALE 10194 Frequency 26 11108 Frequency 28 11721 Frequency 29 11801 Frequency 30 11957 Frequency 33 12129 Frequency 34 12216 Frequency 36/ALE 13446 Frequency 37/ALE 13935 Frequency 38 13894 Frequency 39 14567 Frequency 40 13783 Frequency 41 14450 Frequency 42 14776 Frequency 43 14836 Frequency 44/ALE 14885 Frequency 45 14899 Frequency 46 14908 Frequency 47 14872 Frequency 48 13956 Frequency 49 15840 Frequency 50 15708 Frequency 51/ALE 16201 Frequency 52 16238 Frequency 53/ALE 17519 Frequency 54 18483 Frequency 55 18744 Frequency 56 20361 Frequency 57/ALE 19969 Frequency 58 20027 Frequency 59 20063 Frequency 60/ALE 21866 Frequency 61 21919 Frequency 62/ALE 22983 Frequency 63 23028 Frequency 64 23390 Frequency 65 23451 Frequency 66 23550 Frequency 67 23814 Frequency 68 24008 Frequency 69 24282 Frequency 70 24526 Frequency 70/ALE 24819
Air Force Global HF System (GHFS)
4724, 6712, 6739, 8992, 11175, 13200, 15016
Andersen AB, Guam (Voice call Guam) Andrews AFB, MD (Voice call Andrews Global) Discrete Frequency: 18015 Ascension Island (Voice call Ascension) Discrete Frequency: 11226 Croughton AB, UK (Voice call Croughton) Discrete Frequencies: 8032, 11226, 11271 Hickam AFB, HI (Voice call Hickam) Discrete Frequencies: 11181, 13242 Lajes AB, Azores (Voice call Lajes): 4724, 6712, 9025, 11181, 13212, 15016, Discrete Frequency: 11271 Sigonella Naval Station. Italy (Voice call Sigonella): 4709 6724 9007, 11271 15038
U.S. Army Mars Emergency Network
7403.5 kHz USB 13997.5 kHz USB 13510.0 kHz USB
U.S. Navy
FACSFAC Jacksonville, FL 3166.0, 11252.0 kHz (USB) (Sealord) FACSFAC Virginia Capes, VA 4372.0, 6712.0, 8967.0 kHz (USB) (Giant Killer) Link 11 Voice Coordination Net /Southeast Coast 4070, 7653, 9005.4, 9023, 11114.5 kHz (USB)
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Hay Scout, Any chance you could throw these into a tabularized PDF for downloading and printing for the shack wall? Please
Or have one of your staff type one up. HiHi
Thanks for pulling this together.
Side Question: I was not able to tune into the Covid Watch Net on the 13th. Will there be a regular follow on net? Or was it passed off to the AMMRON net?
You can download this or any other article in pdf format- there’s an icon at the bottom of the article allowing you do do so.
The ERIN Net is nightly. We’re not affiliated with AmRRON.
NCS ref the ERIN Net time and freq if open to everyone?
The details are at unchainedpreppers.com.
roger thanks
No problem brother.
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[…] Following on the last monitoring frequencies post comes another list of frequencies to monitor on HF. Its 13 years old, so some of the frequencies and modes may have changed, but surprisingly much of it remains the same. In any case its another list to have on hand for possible information. A hat tip to reader Ghost Tiger for the link and the original can be found over at MilCom monitoring Post. […]