South San Francisco Bay-Area Frequencies Page.

Latest nationwide weather information.


For local South Bay-Area 24-hour Weather Information tune to:

162.400 or 162.550MHz.

Latest Earthquake and Tsunami information.

Latest Mount St. Helens eruption information.

Mount St. Helens Volcano-Cam (Visible during U.S.Pacific Coast daylight hours.)
This is an image of Mount St. Helens, taken from the Johnston Ridge Observatory.
The Observatory and VolcanoCam are located at an elevation of approximately
4,500 feet, and about five miles from the volcano.

Hurricane Watch Net:
14.325 MHz
  7.268 MHz

U.S. Coast Guard - Gulf Coast:
  8.291 Mhz USB
(Monitor ONLY, Do-Not Transmit.)



The Florida Emergency Operations Center.
C-Band Satellite feed:
Galaxy 3, Transponder 15 (G3C/XP15) at 95.0° West.
Has occasional live video feeds, bulletins,
and disaster info directly from the EOC.
If no video here, try the other 23 transponders.

Transponder 15 used during Hurricane "Frances." (September 2004)
Transponder 4 used during Hurricane "Charlie." (August 2004)



WBRZ TV Channel 2 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
C-Band Satellite feed:
Telstar 5, Transponder 9 (T5C/XP9) at 97.0° West.
Has occasional live video feeds, bulletins,
and disaster info directly from the EOC.
If no video here, try the other 23 transponders.

Transponder 9 used during Hurricane "Katrina." (August 2005)

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) radio station WWV broadcasts
time and frequency information 24 hours per day, 7 days per week to millions of listeners
worldwide. WWV is located in Fort Collins, Colorado, about 100 kilometers north of Denver.

The broadcast information includes time announcements, standard time intervals, standard
frequencies, UT1 time corrections, a BCD time code, geophysical alerts and marine storm
warnings on 2.5, 5, 10, 15, and 20 MHz.

WWV Time Signal

All about WWVB Radio Controlled "Atomic" Clocks

Here is a list of some local frequencies for the Greater
South San Francisco Bay-Area. This list is by no means comprehensive,
but covers the basics, and will get you started on the road to hours of
exciting listening. In the event of a major emergency such as an earthquake,
it can provide you with up-to-the-minute life-saving news and information as
it happens; directly from the sources.


*Please Note:
Many of the following City and County departments and agencies are phasing-in
their radios to the new Silicon Valley Regional Communications System,
which uses digital encryption that no scanner or Ham Radio can monitor.

There are still some "in the clear" analog signals available to monitor
in the South-Bay area, but many of the most popular ones are now gone.

The frequencies listed here are for reference purposes.

For more frequencies in your area, see:
www.radioreference.com


Please send your comments, suggestions, favorite frequencies, or shameless bribes, to:

mountaincharlie1850@yahoo.com



73 de
Jack "Jackrabbit" Furlow - N6ECV
ECV1850 XNGH, Cyber-Recorder, and Bit-Wrangler.





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