Pascagoula, MS - BP radio system goes on air in Jackson County for Gulf oil spill

[Thunderbolt]

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- The first tower site of BP PLC's temporary radio system, meant to coordinate response to its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, went on air last night in Jackson County.

BP radio system goes on air in Jackson County for Gulf oil spill response | gulflive.com

 

[KE5TLF]

Cool Hope it isn't going to be TRBO like the one they got the STA for in LA.

 

[ffemt601]

KE5TLF are you going to provide a feed for it granted its not TRBO?

 

[KE5TLF]

I'm starting to get a feeling it'll be patched into MSWIN (among other similar systems) so probably no need to feed it really. Gotta find it first though before anything happens. :lol:

 

[nexus]

I'll drive out to the site in the morning on the way home from work and run a search through the 700mhz and 800mhz band and run an active sweep with Close Call to see what I come up with.

 

[nexus]

Drove out there this morning parked less than 100 feet from the fence line and for several minutes searched 700 & 800 mhz with no results. Also ran close call and didn't hit on anything not already known.

 

[KE5TLF]

May be a little while yet before there's enough activity on it to be able to catch traffic at any given moment I imagine. 6-8 foot whips would be VHF I guess? VHF seems likely anyway given the vast area involved. I know they are using Marine VHF channel 72 over my way. I watched and listened to about a dozen or more boats returning to Bayou Cassotte this afternoon while I was "at work".:wink:

2 of MSRC's Responder vessels were in Bayou Cassotte yesterday as well, one at Midstream Fuel Services' dock (MSRC has a facility at or near there too) and one at the Port of Pascagoula Dock. They were gone this morning.

 

[nexus]

Here are the frequencies:

REPEATER 86: Output=157.30625 MHz Input=161.90625 MHz
REPEATER 88: Output=157.33125 MHz Input=161.93125 MHz

Narrow Band Frequency Modulation. 6.25 KHz frequency split.

 

[KE5TLF]

I assume this is the license they are being operated under.
ULS License - Public Coast Stations, Auctioned License - WPOJ535 - MariTEL Mississippi River, Inc.
Guess this is the narrowbanding version of marine VHF. Too easy to just put up something that the majority of everyone involved already has onboard I guess. <sigh>
FWIW the guys running booms out of Bayou Casotte are using plain old marine VHF channel 72 for the most part it seems.

 

[psr600md]

for what its worth

we are getting some comms via e skip up here in wisconsin from the spill on 25.18 and 25.16 fm.all boats off shore with oil booms.