Difference between revisions of "Champaign County METCAD MDICE"

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Public Trunked Radio System
Name	Champaign County METCAD MDICE
Owner	City of Champaign /METCAD 9-1-1
Owner Type	Public
City	Champaign
County	Champaign
State	Illinois
Country	United States

System Details
Band	800 MHz
Type	Project 25 Phase I
ID	1DA
WACN	BEE00
NAC	?

FCC Callsign(s)
WQLM668 Expired/Cancelled Callsigns WQIP322

System-specific links
Database	FCC Site Map
Forum	RR Site Map

Other Resources
Trunktracking FAQ	Trunktracking Glossary

Wiki FAQ	MediaWiki
QuickRef	PDF Card

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Welcome to the Champaign County METCAD MDICE collaboration article, a Public Trunked Radio System located in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.
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All public safety agencies in Champaign County are using the MDICE system as of September 28, 2008.
Most Police talkgroups (excepting the UIPD/UPD/Sheriff Dispatch talkgroup, Champaign PD Dispatch, Rantoul PD Dispatch, Parkland PD Dispatch, Courthouse Security and some of the event talkgroups) are 100% encrypted.

Timeline

Mar 23, 2007 - new 285' tower is erected at METCAD
Mar 27, 2007 - METCAD granted FCC license for the new MDCIE system WQGQ800
May 23, 2007 - System begins transmitting and first transmissions are heard on TG: 21002
Jun 2007 - Testing continues daily on TG 21002
Jun 18, 2007 - METCAD posts the public safety talkgroup layout on its website
August 21, 2007 - Sheriff's Department is now using MDICE radios ('Patrol 2' - TG 21501) which is cross-patched with 453.900/453.150.
August 26, 2007 - Nearly all the Urbana PD and U of I PD officers are using MDICE radios, but their TG is still simulcast over 453.900/453.150. There is currently one full-time patch between UHF and MDICE, and two others as needed:
- 453.150/453.900 = PATROL 2 (21501) {full-time}
- 453.975 = INCIDENT 3 (22503) {as-necessary}
- 453.250 = INCIDENT 4 (22504) {as-necessary}
Sep 24, 2007 - Champaign PD is now using MDICE exclusively with dispatch on PATROL 1 TG 21500. 453.400 is now silent.
Oct 23, 2007 - 453.150 is no longer simulcasting MDICE. Unsure of exactly when this quit, however, 453.900 still simulcasts Patrol 2 from MDICE.
Nov 14, 2007 - It's been noted that the 453.900/PATROL 2 simulcast is no longer active. 453.900 is now silent.
Nov 29, 2007 - TG 21532 "COURT SECURITY" is now being used by the deputies covering the courthouse.
Dec 17, 2007 - Parkland College PD now uses MDICE TG 21505.
Jan 29, 2008 - Urbana and Champaign Fire moved operations to MDICE this morning. Paging still occurs on 154.070 which isn't simulcast on MDICE. Fire responses have been on TG 22000 FIRE OPS 1.
Jan 30, 2008 - 154.070 is being simulcast onto TG 22012 FIRE DISPATCH
Spring 2008 - Weather spotters are now using MDICE TG 21204 WEATHER for storm spotting reports
Aug/Sep 2008 - Testing is ongoing on TG 22006 FIREGROUND 5 with rural fire departments trying out their new radios.
Aug 31, 2008 - METCAD has updated some of their talkgroup listing at their scanner information page
Sep 9, 2008 - Rantoul PD moved to MDICE TG 21504.
Sep 28, 2008 - Rural Fire Departments began using MDICE, all Public Safety agencies across Champaign County are now using MDICE (Source: METCAD)
Sep 28, 2008 - Rantoul FD is now using MDICE
Sep 29, 2008 - Urbana Public Works, who formerly used the 453.525 repeater, began using MDICE TG 22705
Oct 7, 2008 - Urbana Parking Enforcement Division, who formerly used the 453.525 repeater, began using MDICE TG 22714
Oct 15, 2008 - Champaign and Urbana Public Works are scheduled to join MDICE by this date. Urbana PW joined MDICE in October 2008.
May 8, 2009 - Pro Ambulance using MDICE TG 22018 for its operations
May 13, 2009 - METCAD was rebanded -15 MHz. Outputs are now 851-854 MHz rather than 866-869 MHz.
Aug 7, 2009 All Fire Paging for whole county including Champaign and Urbana on 154.250.
Winter 2009-2010 - Champaign County Highway Department is using MDICE for it's operations.
July 8, 2014 - Rantoul joins METCAD and is dispatched on PATROL 2 along with the county sheriff and rural PDs. UIPD and Urbana PD move to PATROL 3.

Discussions

Related Wiki Pages

Live Feeds

Champaign County Radioreference Live Audio - streaming audio of the public safety talkgroups on MDICE

External Links

City of Champaign - August 2007 Press Release about MDICE

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-|SysName   = Champaign County METCAD MDICE
+|Owner     = City of Champaign /METCAD 9-1-1
-|SysType   = [[Project 25]] Phase I
-|SysID     = BEE00-1DA
-|CTone     = Unknown
-|NAC       = Unknown
-|Band      = 800
-|Owner     = Public
-|FCC       = WQLM668
 |City      = Champaign
 |County    = [[Champaign County (IL)|Champaign]]
 |State     = [[Illinois (US)|Illinois]]
-|StateB    = Illinois
+|Band      = 800 [[MHz]]
+| <!-- using parameter "SysType"'s default value -->
+|SysID     = 1DA
+|WACN      = BEE00
+|NAC       = ?
+|Callsigns = {{Callsign|WQLM668}}<br/><br/><i>Expired/Cancelled Callsigns</i><br/>{{Callsign|WQIP322}}
+|sid       = 4403
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-|sid       = 4403
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 * Sep 29, 2008 - Urbana Public Works, who formerly used the 453.525 repeater, began using MDICE TG 22705
 * Oct  7, 2008 - Urbana Parking Enforcement Division, who formerly used the 453.525 repeater, began using MDICE TG 22714
-* Oct 15, 2008 - Champaign and Urbana Public Works are scheduled to join MDICE by this date.
+* Oct 15, 2008 - Champaign and Urbana Public Works are scheduled to join MDICE by this date.  Urbana PW joined MDICE in October 2008.
 * May  8, 2009 - Pro Ambulance using MDICE TG 22018 for its operations
 * May 13, 2009 - METCAD was rebanded -15 MHz.  Outputs are now 851-854 MHz rather than 866-869 MHz.
 * Aug  7, 2009 All Fire Paging for whole county including Champaign and Urbana on 154.250.
 * Winter 2009-2010 - Champaign County Highway Department is using MDICE for it's operations.
+*July 8, 2014 - Rantoul joins METCAD and is dispatched on PATROL 2 along with the county sheriff and rural PDs.  UIPD and Urbana PD move to PATROL 3.
+==Discussions==
+*{{Thread|illinois-radio-discussion-forum|65943-champaign-county-metcad-digital-interoperable-communication-environment-mdice.html|Radioreference Forum CURRENT Thread about the MDICE TRS|}}
+*{{Thread|illinois-radio-discussion-forum|48720-metcad-champaign-county-new-800-mhz-astro-trunked-system.html|Radioreference Forum OLD Thread about the MDICE TRS|}}<br/>
-== Unidentified Talkgroups ==
+==Related Wiki Pages==
-=== Non-Encrypted ===
+* [[Champaign County METCAD MDICE Unknown Talkgroups]]
-* 22706  transmissions logged from and Urbana PW radios.  Probably PW OPS 6.
+* [[Champaign County METCAD MDICE Radio IDs]]
-=== Encrypted talkgroups ===
+==Live Feeds==
-* 21205  unidentified, encrypted
+* [http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?feedId=1814 Champaign County Radioreference Live Audio] - streaming audio of the public safety talkgroups on MDICE
-* 21250  used by weather spotters radios; only encrypted transmissions logged
-* 21511  used completely by Parkland College PD ; probably "PATROL OPS 6"
-* 21512  referred to as “Special Teams 1” by CPD units before switching to this TG, encrypted
-* 21513  unit on TG 21501 told another unit "switch over to my channel" and they went to 21513
-* 21515  used completely by county sheriff radios
-* 21518  unidentified encrypted
-* 21527  used completely by CPD radios; heard 6/7/12 when CHAMPAIGN SWAT was having training
-* 21528  used completely by CPD radios; {total speculation...CPD SWAT 2??}
-* 21529  	 	unid - encrypted (12/07) used by PATROL 2 department radios - SWAT/METRO team?; used during numerous METRO SWAT deployments
-* 21530  used by UPD and UIPD radios - SWAT/METRO team?; {total speculation...METRO SWAT 2??}
-* 21531  used completely by county sheriff radios
-* 21539  always encrypted
-* 21540  affiliation from RPD radio, encryption heard, possibly an investigations TG
-* 21542  always encrypted
-* 22020  logged as encrypted via Pro96com
-* 22021  Pro96com showed the radio IDs in Pro's sequence.  TG always is encrypted.
-=== Affiliation only (No transmissions heard/logged) ===
+==External Links==
-* 21005 formerly listed as "METCAD EOC Net - EOC communications" on METCAD's website, affiliations from METCAD radios
+* [http://www.ci.champaign.il.us/departments/2007/08/16/new-radio-system-update/print/ City of Champaign - August 2007 Press Release about MDICE]<br/>
-* 21101 affiliation from radio id 1; logged 5/2/2007 when the system was new--haven't seen affiliations since then on this TG
-* 21253 affiliations from 4 CPD radios and 1 RPD radio
-* 21502 affiliations from CPD, UPD, UIPD, County Sheriff, RPD radios
-* 21503 affiliations from CPD, UPD, UIPD, County Sheriff, RPD radios
-* 21508 affiliations from UPD, UIPD radios; no transmissions have been logged
-* 21509 affiliations from UPD and UIPD and a 41000000 series radio
-* 21514 affiliations from two UIPD radios
-* 21525 affiliations from CPD, UPD, and Parkland PD radios
-* 21538 affiliations from UIPD radios
-* 21539 affiliation from County Sheriff radio
-* 22001 formerly listed as FIRE TACTICAL on METCAD's website, affiliation from a METCAD radio
-* 22010 formerly listed as HAZMAT on METCAD's website, affiliations from rural fire radios and an Arrow Ambulance radio
-* 22011 formerly listed as TECH RESCUE on METCAD's website, affiliations from a few fire radios and METCAD consoles; no transmissions have been logged
-* 22707 affiliations from Urbana PW radios
-* 21203 was formerly listed as "EMA Region 7 - communication with other EMA agencies in neighboring counties of Region 7" on METCAD's website.  No affiliations or transmissions have been logged.
-=== METCAD RIDs (Radio IDs) ===
-* 4000000 METCAD radios
-* 4001000 Champaign PD
-* 4001100 Champaign PD
-* 4001200 Urbana PD
-* 4001300 Urbana PD
-* 4001500 U of I PD
-* 4001700 County Sheriff
-* 4001800 County Sheriff
-* 4002200 Rural PDs
-* 4002300 Rural PDs
-* 4002500 Parkland Police
-* 4002600 Rantoul PD
-* 4020000 Champaign Fire
-* 4020100 Champaign Fire
-* 4021000 Urbana Fire
-* 4022000 Bondville Fire
-* 4022200 Carroll Fire
-* 4023400 Sadorus Fire
-* 4022400 Edge-Scott Fire
-* 4022500 Homer Fire
-* 4022700 Longview Fire
-* 4022800 Ogden-Royal Fire
-* 4023100 Rantoul Fire
-* 4023300 St. Joe Fire
-* 4023600 Savoy Fire
-* 4024000 Sidney Fire
-* 4024300 Ludlow Fire
-* 4024400 Thomasboro Fire
-* 4024600 Cornbelt Fire
-* 4090000 Arrow Ambulance
-* 4090250 Pro Ambulance
-* 4100200 Weather Spotters
-* 4200000 County Public Works / Highway
-** 4600056  Snow Plows on 22701 (1/14)
-** 4600078  Snow Plows - unit 451 on 22701 (1/14)
-** 4600084  Snow Plows - Dispatcher? on 22701 (1/14)
-** 4600107  Snow Plows - unit 467 on 22701 (1/14)
-* 4200500 Urbana PW
-* 4200600 Champaign PW
-* 4500000 U of I Utilities units
-* 4900000 METCAD Dispatch Console
-== Related Links ==
-* [http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?feedId=1814 Champaign County Radioreference Live Audio] - streaming audio of the public safety talkgroups on MDICE
-* [http://www.radioreference.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65943 Radioreference Forum CURRENT Thread about the MDICE TRS]<br/>
-* [http://www.radioreference.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48720 Radioreference Forum OLD Thread about the MDICE TRS]<br/>
-* [http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?cs=WQIP322 Map of MDICE tower sites]
-* [http://www.ci.champaign.il.us/departments/2007/08/16/new-radio-system-update/print/ City of Champaign - August 2007 Press Release about MDICE]<br/>
-[[Category:Illinois]]
+Return to Wiki page: [[Trunked Radio Systems (IL)]]
 [[Category:Illinois Trunked Radio Systems]]