Illinois Sports

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[edit] American Hockey League

[edit] Chicago Wolves

Conventional Frequencies for the Allstate Arena:

• 471.2625 D043 Rosemont PD F5 used by the pd

[edit] Quad City Flames

[edit] Peoria Rivermen

• National Garages parking uses 461.825 DPL 654 (repeater)

[edit] Rockford IceHogs

Rockford Metro Centre
(sources: Radioreference.com and CARMA

• 453.52500 KNAR517 (203.5 PL) Rockford Metro Centre Authority FM
• 453.22500 KNAR517 (???.? PL) Rockford Metro Centre Authority (Portables) FM

[edit] Arena Football League

[edit] Chicago Rush

• The Chicago Rush coaching staff uses Portaphone headsets which likely cannot be monitored.

Conventional Frequencies for the Allstate Arena:

• 471.2625 D043 Rosemont PD F5 used by the pd

[edit] Arena Football League 2

[edit] Peoria Pirates

• The Peoria Pirates coaching staff uses Portaphone headsets which likely cannot be monitored.

• National Garages parking uses 461.825 DPL 654 (repeater)

[edit] Quad City Steamwheelers

[edit] Frontier League (baseball)

[edit] Southern Illinois Miners

Conventional Frequencies for Rent One Park:

[edit] Gateway Grizzlies

[edit] LPGA

[edit] State Farm Classic (Springfield, IL)

• State Farm Classic - official website
• Panther Creek Country Club - official website

• Radioreference.com Forum Thread: "LPGA State Farm Classic (Springfield) report" -- observations from the 2007 and 2009 events

Frequencies heard at Panther Creek Country Club during the 2009 tournament.

Springfield Fire mentioned the tournament on the Springfield TRS TG 560. For media frequencies used at the event, see this link.

Frequencies heard at Panther Creek Country Club during the 2007 tournament.

• 155.2350 (136.5) Ball-Chatham School buses (shuttle)
• 455.2125 (114.8) (found via CloseCall)
• 455.3375 NO PL RECORDED via CloseCall
• 457.5750 (516)
• 461.3625 (073) Scores (control?)
• 461.4625 (114.8) LPGA rules?
• 462.0125 (734) (found via CloseCall)
• 462.8375 NO PL RECORDED via CloseCall
• 462.9125 (114.8) Scores
• 464.1375 (731) (found via CloseCall)
• 464.5500 (114.8) Concessions
• 464.5625 (723) (found via CloseCall)
• 464.6000 (151.4) Scores
• 464.6250 (167.9) Scores?
• 467.7625 (192.8) (found via CloseCall)
• 467.8250 (516) Beer tent mentioned
• 467.9250 (506) Scores
• 469.7250 (107.2) (found via CloseCall)

Springfield PD was out in full-force at the tournament. I heard some activity on TG 144 "CITY OPS 1" on the City of Springfield TRS which sounded like it was used at the tournament. Other talkgroups may have been used on this system, so monitor it during next years event.

[edit] 2009 Solheim Cup (Sugar Grove, IL)

Held at Rich Harvest Farms

Public safety frequencies:

• Illinois State Police provided perimeter traffic control on Starcom21 TG 30306 ITTF REG 3B
• 158.745 (out)/153.785 (in) (146.2) [repeater] Kane County Sheriff and EMA units
• private security firm was on UHF--possibly 466.0625 (162.2)

Solheim Cup frequency report:

• Radioreference.com Forum Thread: "kane county" -- scroll down for more posts on the subject

[edit] Major League Baseball

[edit] Chicago Cubs

Conventional frequencies for Wrigley Field:

(Also heard CPD outside: 460.2500 CPD CW6, 465.5250 (177.3) CPD Operations mainly outside the park. Seemed to be concerned with unlicensed vendors.)

• Note: While attending a Cubs game, scanner listeners could monitor the 460 MHz repeater input frequencies (-5 MHz) to keep from hearing non-game related radio traffic.

For licensed frequencies near Wrigley Field, see this page.

Cubs frequencies from carmachicago post #16487 from 2003.

The Cubs have an application pending for a repeater on 452.4375.

[edit] Chicago White Sox

Conventional frequencies for US Cellular Park:

Other Frequencies to listen to while at field:
009 District, 460.4500 (Zone 13)
CFD Englewood 153.7700
CFD EMS South 460.6250

Z5 as the 2nd dist is just across the Dan Ryan. Also plug Citywide 1 in for the traffic units around the game. Then Citywide 2 in for the Evidence Techs, Crime lab & Detectives.
Z5- 460.500
CW1- 460.125
CW2- 460.175

• Note: While attending a White Sox game, scanner listeners could monitor the 460 MHz repeater input frequencies (-5 MHz) to keep from hearing non-game related radio traffic.

FCC Licensed Frequencies near US Cellular Park

[edit] Major League Soccer

[edit] Chicago Fire

Conventional frequencies for Toyota Park (Bridgeview, IL)

To supplement the above info, the frequencies below came from the CarmaChicago's Suburban Cook County Profile:

• 468.8375 (DCS205) Sound Engineers
• 467.8125 (DCS411) Sound Engineers
• 464.5000 (DCS311) Toyota Park
• 468.5375 Parking Lot Attendants
• 468.4375 Security, Guest Services
• 468.3625 (DCS411) Hospitality
• 469.3625 (DCS072) House Electricians
• 468.4500 Toyota Park

[edit] Midwest League

[edit] Kane County Cougars

Kane County Cougars/Elfstrom Stadium frequencies:

[edit] Peoria Chiefs

Frequencies for Peoria Chiefs/O'Brien Field (confirmed in 2008)

Misc. Peoria Chiefs notes:

• Stadium operations are on 451.125 while the "cheerleader" staff uses 467.900 to coordinate their entertaining of the crowd. In the first few seasons, FRS was used at the stadium years ago but hasn't been observed recently. Parking lots are run by National Garages are using 461.825 DCS654. AMT personnel at the games were observed carrying an 800 MHz portable, presumably on the Supreme 800 MHz MOT TRS. Peoria PD officers are occasionally seen at the games.

[edit] NCAA Basketball Big 10 Conference

[edit] Illinois

See the Illinois Basketball section on the Champaign-Urbana wiki page.

[edit] NCAA Football Big 10 Conference

[edit] Illinois

See the Illinois Football section on the Champaign-Urbana wiki page.

[edit] National Basketball Association(NBA)

[edit] Chicago Bulls

Conventional Frequencies for the United Center

For licensed frequencies near the United Center, see this link.

[edit] National Football League

[edit] Chicago Bears

Soldier Field UHF LTR TRS

Site info:

Soldier Field talkgroups

Conventional frequencies

At a CARMA meeting, I was informed that Chicago PD uses Citywide 6 460.250 (162.2) for Bears details

[edit] National Hockey League

[edit] Chicago Blackhawks

Conventional Frequencies for the United Center

For licensed frequencies near the United Center, see this link.

[edit] Northern League

[edit] Joliet Jackhammers

Silver Cross Field frequencies:

Note: only frequency observed in use on 8/16/08 was 452.225 (DCS162). Surprisingly no radios were seen other than Joliet PD (TG 3248).

From carmachicago Yahoo!Group

• 154.570
• 154.600

Joliet PD uses the Joliet Motorola II 800 MHz analog TRS TG 3248 at Silver Cross Field. Joliet FD/EMS will monitor (TG 1616) while at the games.

For licensed frequencies near Silver Cross Field, see this link.

[edit] Schaumburg Flyers

(source: Suburban Cook County CARMA profile)
Alexian Field/Schaumburg Flyers:

• 466.0625 (162.2) F1 Parking/Security
• 466.2125 (162.2) F2 Team Ops
• 463.4125 F3 Concessions
• 463.8250 ?? ?
• 468.4500 ?? ?

Schaumburg PD likely uses the Schaumburg Motorola II 800 MHz analog TRS

[edit] PGA

[edit] John Deere Classic (Silvis, IL)

• John Deere Classic
• TPC at Deere Run

Course frequencies:
TPC at Deere Run holds FCC license WPYD339 for a repeater on 451.300.

[edit] BMW Championship - Cog Hill Golf & Country Club (Lemont, IL)

Temporary STA #0003149129 licensed to Communications Direct Inc. for radio use at the 2007 tournament

[edit] PGA Championship Medinah IL

• Frequencies for the 2006 PGA Championship Aug 17-20 Medinah Country Club in Medinah, IL are found (here)

[edit] Sports Entertainment Groups

There are many traveling acts that perform during breaks at major and minor league sporting events around the country. Some of these performing groups use radios to coordinate their activities.

[edit] BirdZerk

• BirdZerk! website

A bird mascot that entertains the crowd between innings

• 467.1625 DCS031 Birdzerk staff (heard 6/6/08 in Peoria, IL)

[edit] ZOOperstars

• ZOOperstars! website

A group of air-filled mascots that dance around.

• 467.1625 DCS031 Zooperstars staff (heard 7/8/2005 in Peoria, IL)

[edit] WNBA

[edit] Chicago Sky

Games are played at the UIC Pavilion

• 453.900 (632 DPL) UIC Police (source)
• 453.900 (186.2) UIC Police "back up channel" (source)

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