Chicago Area Radio Monitoring Association (CARMA)

Introduction

The Chicago Area Radio Monitoring Association (CARMA) is a scanner radio club in the Chicago metropolitan area. Membership is free and unofficial, there are no dues or membership certificates. About 1400 people are members of the mailing list or participate in other activities. A large percentage of the participants are public safety officials, dispatchers, radio vendors, service personnel and other professionals. Many are also amateur radio operators ("Hams"), GMRS licensees or members and volunteer contributors of RadioReference.com.

Most operations are handled through a Groups.io list, including emails, files and databases.

Meetings

CARMA hosts monthly meetings, with Saturday meetings and informal "Friday Nighter" get-togethers in alternate months.

CARMA Radio Profiles

• Prior to October 12, 2012, CARMA produced radio profiles of each county in Illinois, including scanner frequencies and other information for the IL State Police, county Sheriffs departments, local law enforcement agencies and transportation operations.
• Since Oct 12, 2012, CARMA submits all profile-updates to the RadioReference Database. Other extensive profiles of operations like StarCom21, State radio operations, railroads, aviation and other users of two-way radio are also produced.

CARMA Logo

The CARMA logo contains the Latin phrase: "IN DEO SPERAMUS, CETEROS OMNES OBSERVAMUS", which roughly translates to "IN GOD WE TRUST, ALL OTHERS WE MONITOR".

External Links

• CARMA's Groups IO is found at CARMA GroupsIO

Chicago Metro Area Information

• Not only has data been placed in our database (see the link at the bottom of the page), a tremendous amount of data has been placed in the wiki. Click on the desired county below to view the article

Chicago Metro Area Counties by State

Illinois	Indiana	Wisconsin
Cook	Lake	Kenosha
DuPage	Porter
Kane
Kendall
Lake
McHenry
Will

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