Fort Bend County
Office of Emergency Management

Mission Statement

• Primary: Provide Amateur Radio communications to our served agencies when all other electronic mechanisms fail. Our primary served agency is the Fort Bend County Office of Emergency Management. We also serve several hospitals and municipalities in Fort Bend County. Amateur Radio communications can be internal to Fort Bend County or between the Fort Bend, another county, or the State of Texas.
• Secondary: Provides Amateur Radio communication among EMROG Skywarn storm spotters, the National Weather Service in League City, the Fort Bend Office of Emergency Management, or by telephone relay the Fort Bend Sheriff's Department. 

Requirements

To join the Emergency Management Radio Operators Group (EMROG), visit the FBC EMROG Credentialing Requirements page.

Email

The group's intake email is FBCEMROG@gmail.com. Email is checked several time a week, but not daily.

New Items

• May 11: Preparedness Workshop at Rosenberg Civic Center located at 3825 Highway 36 South, Rosenberg TX 77471.
  Time: 9:00am-1:00pm.
• 2012 Hurricane Woirkswhop: Saturday, June 9, 10am to 3pm. Learn more and register, www.huricaneworkshop.com

Repeater

Fort Bend Office of Emergency Managements sponsors three repeaters for emergency service use:

• 2 Meter Vocal: 145.490 MHz,PL=123.0 Hz, Negative Offset
• 2 Meter Digital: 145.050 MHz (KD5HAL-5 and KD5HAL-10)
• 70cm Vocal: 444.525 MHZ, PL=123.0 Hz, Positive Offset

Net Operations

Each Monday Night (except Third) at 7:30 PM, more information, on the FBC EMROG Net Operations page.

Schedule Activities

• Races and EMROG Training Nets: Each Monday Night (except Third) at 7:30 PM: 145.490 MHz, negative offset, PL 123.5 Hz.
• EMROG (eye-ball) meeting at EOC (no net): Third Monday of each month: 7:30 PM at the Fort Bend Office of Emergency Management;307 Fort Street, Richmond, TX. Talk in on 145.49 repeater (repeater information above).
  • April 16th: Eyeball Meeting, 7:30pm, Enter West Door (Radio training)
  • May 21st: Eyeball Meeting, 7:30pm, Enter West Door (Radio training)
  • June 18th: Eyeball Meeting, 7:30pm, Enter West Door
  • July 16th:  Eyeball Meeting, 7:30pm, Enter West Door
  • August 20th: Eyeball Meeting, 7:30pm, Enter West Door
• EMROG Work Days: These are used to maintain and improve Amateur Radio Communication infrastructure. They are usually scheduled for the first Saturday following the "eye-ball" meeting on the Third-Monday. Currently envisioned work days are listed below. Breakfast is usually provided for those who notify in advance that they intend to attend.
  • April 21st: CANCELLED (MS150 WEEKEND)
  • May 26th: 8:30 to Noon
  • June 23rd: 8:30 to Noon
  • July 21st: 8:30 to Noon
  • August 25th: 8:30 to Noon

About Skywarn

Skywarn in Fort Bend County is a cooperative among the Office of Emergency Management (OEM), National Weather Service (NWS). For more information, visit the FBC EMROG SKYWARN page.

Member Log-In Links

• PIER System
• Web EOC

Useful Web Information Links

National Weather

• Atlantic Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook
• National SKYWARN Home Page

Local Weather

• NWS Houston/Galveston Fire Weather Page
• NWS Fort Bend County TX: Watches, Warnings, Advisories
• NWS Harris County TX: Watches, Warnings, Advisories
• NWS Storm Prediction Center
• City of Sugar Land: Interactive Rainfall Map
• Harris County Rain Gauge System
• USGS Texas Stream Flow Data by County
• USGS Texas Stream Flow Data by River
• Texas Parks & Wildlife River Flow Gauges, Brazos River
• Texas Forest Service Fire Activity

Amateur Radio

• RMS Station Up Times (South Texas)
• Houston Area Amateur License Training
• Anderson Power Pole Connector Construction
• Harris County ARES
• SE Texas Public Service Events

RSS Information

• NWS: Tutorial on RSS (Really Simple Syndication)