Follow Up
I did license search for lafayette parish, only 8 hits! And from my actual observation these are mostly just
zombies, with no real use. For example the sheriff is licensed for 100 or more low band units, but they
haven't had low band ants on their cars for years. Furgo Chance, I work near there, I don't see a bunch of low band either.
The one license I see remaining for LFT parish comm district, is 46.58, which I'm about 90% certain was the frequency stamped
on that old Moto. base station for National Guard in the EOC.
The one thing that is still in use is Red Cross on 47mhz(47.24 FM if memory serves) or so and there was some activity during the flood, but day to day probably quiet unless they are doing training.
In short most of the actual low band users (utilities and oilfield) migrated to 800/900 or cell many years ago.
Regarding 6 meters, there is a simplex net, that I checked into as recently as a year ago, I think net control is out of Walker, LA. It is on a weeknight and they do FM then SSB.
Regards
W5JAB