Severe Flooding in Howard County especially in Ellicott City area. Multiple water rescues.
Today there's a Chinook helicopter removing cars from inaccessible areas. Anyone copying actual communications from this operation?
Correction, it is a Md. National Guard helicopter delivering pipes to repair a sewer line.
I have not. They either are on or will be on FiRST but they will most likely be encrypted.
I wonder if the MNG helicopters actually have FiRST capable radios?
If they do, it's likely to be using the low power air to ground frequencies. Or, they may have personnel on the ground coordinating the chopper operations.
On the other hand, MEMA has probably set up some patches in various interop frequencies for this. Is anyone local to the are monitoring those channels?
Per radio traffic, seems that they have had a large contingent of Red Cross crews assisting. Has anyone in the area heard any radio traffic from them?
I haven't been listening on ARC frequencies. I wonder if any radio caches have been distributed? Is CMARC still active? How about the 8TAC channels?