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), click here.

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

New Items:

Hurricane EARL: 5-Day Forecast Cone

Tropical Storm FIONA: 5-Day Forecast Cone 

Tropical Weather:

SOC Clock

Atlantic Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook

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, click here.

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).
• 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.
  • September 25th: (Saturday, 8:AM) TBD
  • October 23rd: (Saturday, 8:AM) TBD
  • November20th: (Saturday, 8:AM) TBD
  • December 25th: CANCELLED

About Skywarn: Skywarn in Fort Bend County is a cooperative among the Office of Emergency Management (OEM), National Weather Service (NWS). For more information, click here.

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 Fort Bend County TX: Watches, Warnings, Advisories
• NWS Harris County TX: Watches, Warnings, Advisories
• NWS Storm Prfediction 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

Amateur Radio

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

RSS Information

• NWS: Tutorial on RSS (Really Simple Syndication)