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Champaign County Government

Champaign County Forest Preserve WEB

  • 10/22 add 453.3875 Repeater DMR 40W WQCM420
  • 151.145 Repeater with 15-40W mobiles WNCD535 BELL TOWER LAKE OF WOODS PARK, Mahomet [Expires 3/25]

METCAD - Champaign County 911 WEB

Responsibilities include answering all 911 calls in the Champaign County area, and coordinating responses with two ambulance companies, 24 fire departments and 10 law enforcement agencies.

  • Consolidated dispatch center which was established in June of 1979 with 9 Telecommunicators, serving the Police Departments in Champaign, Urbana and the University of Illinois. In 1983, the Champaign County Sheriff's Office joined METCAD and in 1988 METCAD merged with FIRECOMM to consolidate fire and police dispatching services.
  • Now answers emergency 9-1-1 calls for all of Champaign County. With a staff of 33** Telecommunicators, 3 Supervisors, 1 Operations Manager, 4 Technical Staff Members and 3 Administrative Staff Members, we provide direct dispatch service for all law enforcement and fire agencies through-out Champaign County.
  • County-wide Enhanced 9-1-1 system on March 5, 1996.
  • Funded by contributions from member public safety agencies as well as a surcharge on each land line telephone and wireless device billed to an address in the county.

MDICE Digital P25 System

  • August 2007 through September 2007 - Champaign County Law Enforcement Agencies begin using MDICE. Agency cut-over was staggered over a two month period.
  • December 2008 - Area Fire Departments begin using MDICE.
  • July 2014 - The Village of Rantoul joins METCAD, METCAD assumes responsibility for answering all 9-1-1 calls and dispatching for Rantoul Police Department and Rantoul Fire Department.
  • June 2022 - One of the towers at the METCAD facility that was installed in 1980 was retired. The tower reached 235 feet to its top and served as the primary first responder radio tower from 1980 to 2007.
  • May 2024 - A new radio tower was assembled in Mahomet along Lake of the Woods Road. This new tower will allow for improved communications on the MDICE system and fire paging throughout the western portion of Champaign County.
    • Should have around 37 dispatchers, but have about half that amount - 9/24 News Story

MDICE - METCAD DIGITAL INTEROPERABLE COMMUNICATIONS ENVIRONMENT

General system information including the implementation timeline and radio ids has been moved to the separate METCAD MDICE TRS wiki page. Specific agency usage information can still be found under their respective sections on this page.

  • The following agencies use IWIN: Champaign County Sheriff's Department, Champaign Fire Department; Police: Champaign, Gifford, Homer, Ludlow, Ogden, Rantoul, Tolono, Urbana, U of I

Champaign County Sheriff's Department

As of August 21, 2007, the Champaign County Sheriff's Department is using MDICE TG 21501 'Patrol 2'. For emergencies, the responding units will use TG 21507 PATROL OPS 2 (which is encrypted). The Courthouse started using MDICE in place of 460.2250 on 11/29/07.

Dispatched by METCAD.

  • Units: 500s are Sheriff's Department Deputies. The Sheriff's Department uses the MDICE TRS TG 21501. Also on the same channel/talkgroup are Rantoul PD (Rantoul #) and Village PDs (6Letter#). 6Letter# are village PD units (the number corresponds to the beat; such as 6David24 is a Tolono PD officer and 6Baker22 is a Mahomet PD officer).

Champaign County Sheriff Conventional Frequencies (that are still used):

  • 453.3000 (MOTOTRBO) Champaign County Jail (low power repeater)
  • 453.7250 (118.8) Champaign County Juvenile Detention Center (simplex)

Metropolitan Area / Champaign County

City of Champaign (Lead Agency) Agency in 1979 Champaign Police Champaign Fire City of Urbana* Urbana Police Urbana Fire University of Illinois* University of Illinois Police Willard Crash-Rescue Champaign County Champaign County Sheriff's Office Champaign County Emergency Management Agency Champaign County Animal Control Village of Rantoul Rantoul Police Rantoul Fire


Rural Law Enforcement

  • Villages: Fisher Police, Ludlow Police, Mahomet Police, Thomasboro Police, Tolono Police

Rural Fire Departments & Fire Protection Districts Bondville Fire Department Broadlands-Longview Fire Protection District Carroll Fire Protection District Cornbelt (Mahomet) Fire Protection District Eastern Prairie Fire Protection District Edge-Scott Fire Protection District Gifford Fire Protection District Homer-Sidney Fire Protection District Ivesdale Fire Protection District Ludlow Fire Protection District Ogden-Royal Fire Protection District Pesotum Fire Protection District Philo Fire Protection District Sadorus Fire Protection District Sangamon Valley Fire Protection District Savoy Fire Department Seymour Fire Department St. Joseph-Stanton Fire Protection District Thomasboro Fire Protection District Tolono Fire Protection District


Champaign County EMA (Emergency Management)

DEC HEX Mode Alpha Tag Description
21200  52d0  D  EMA Admin  Administration [EMA Admin] 
21201  52d1  D  EMA Ops 1  Operations [EMA Ops 1] 
21202  52d2  D  EMA Ops 2  Coordination [EMA Ops 2] 
21203  52d3  D  EMA Region 7  Region 7 Net [EMA RGN7] 
21204  52d4  D  EMA Weather  Weather Spotter Operations [WEATHER] 
21205  52d5  D  EMA PIO  Public Information Officer [EMA PIO] 
21250  5302  D  EMA Ops 6 Wx  Weather Spotter Operations [EMA OPS6] 

Severe weather alert message are broadcast on MDICE TRS TG 24975 as well as on IREACH 155.055 and Rural Fire 154.25.

The main channel to monitor when storms approach is TG 21204 on the MDICE TRS. To get a regional perspective on the storm's progress, Champaign County EMA gives and receives updates from Lincoln WX on Starcom21 TG 30324. Also worth monitoring is the Champaign County ARES spotter channel 444.100 (162.2). Since 444.1000 is used for other purposes during regular weather, it is best to lock it out in your scanner until the weather turns severe. 155.0400 (131.8) and 155.1150 (131.8) are no longer used for weather spotting purposes.

Champaign County weather radio check is conducted the first Tuesday each month at 10am on MDICE TRS TG 21204.

  • MDICE TRS TG 21201 EMA OPS 1 if County EMA is involved in a major storm

Countywide

  • MDICE TRS TG 21204 "WEATHER" - weather spotter reports to the EOC
  • 444.1000 (162.2) Champaign County ARES spotters [repeater]
  • 147.0600 (131.8) Champaign County ARES (backup to 444.100) [repeater]
  • 146.5500 (CSQ) Champaign County weather spotter simplex

Village/Rural Spotters

  • 151.115 (131.8) Homer ESDA [repeater]
  • 155.865 (131.8) Mahomet ESDA
  • 154.995 (CSQ) Pesotum ESDA
  • 155.775 (CSQ) Philo ESDA
  • 158.805 (127.3) Savoy ESDA [repeater] -->likely replaced by 151.01 DCS205 [repeater]
  • 158.82 (186.2) Thomasboro ESDA
  • 151.0775 (DCS 223) Tolono ESDA [repeater]

Supplemental Information from Radioreference.com's Database:

Champaign County EMA

Frequency  Input   
License  Type  Tone  Alpha Tag  Description  Mode  Tag 
154.07000  156.01500   KNNK417   RM  131.8 PL  Champ WxSirens Outdoor Warning Sirens (DTMF activation)  FMN  Data 
45.56000        BM  103.5 PL  Champ ESDA45 ESDA: Local Net (210.7 PL State?)  FM  Emergency Ops 

Illinois State Police

Champaign-Urbana is located within ISP District 10. Pesotum, IL is the district HQ. Patrol units are X#'s, matching their patrol car's license plate in most cases.

As of 8/9/07, ISP D10 now uses Starcom21 for it's operations

ISP District 10 Starcom21 Trunked System :

Sites

SiteNameFreqs     
003 (3) Champaign851.412500 851.937500c 852.462500a 852.987500 854.962500 855.162500

SiteNameFreqs    
006 (6) Pesotum 851.362500 852.412500a 852.937500a 853.462500 854.562500c

Talkgroups

DEC HEX Mode Alpha Tag Description
13029  32e5  D  D10 IREACH  IREACH Patch 
13041  32f1  D  D10 Local Patch  Local Patch 
13076  3314  D  D10 Intercom  Intercom 

Statewide ISP frequencies formerly used around Champaign-Urbana.
With the exception of IREACH and ISPERN, these will likely not be used often anymore. They're still included for reference and historical purposes.

  • 155.475 HF-1 ISPERN - Illinois State Police Emergency Radio Network {base transmits 67.0 PL}
  • 155.055 HF-3 I-REACH -- Statewide Interagency Mutual Aid
  • 155.46 HF-4 Rarely used in Champaign-Urbana, except it is used at U of I football games
  • 42.5 LF-2 Statewide car-car (ex. radar details)
  • 154.905 ISP DCI HF-2 Rarely used in District 10 (mobiles tx PL 110.9 while base tx CSQ)
  • 155.505 ISP Mobile Extenders

ISP District 10 Pesotum Conventional Frequencies:
The old conventional VHF frequencies that were used for decades up to 8/9/07. These may still occasionally be active, so don’t remove them from your scanner just yet. The 700 MHz frequencies are for the Starcom21 mobile extenders.

Frequency  License  Type  Tone  Alpha Tag  Description  Mode  Tag 
154.69500  KSA464   B  251 DPL  ISP D10 HFB2 Dispatch: Champaign/Urbana area (no 67.0 PL as of 9/10)  FMN  Law Dispatch 
764.46875  WPTZ798   M  165 DPL  ISP D10 MX-O Vehicular Repeater/Mobile Extender - Out (to SC21)  FMN  Law Dispatch 
794.46875  WPTZ798   M  423 DPL  ISP D10 MX-I Vehicular Repeater/Mobile Extender - In (to SC21)  FMN  Law Dispatch 


City, State, and County Highway Departments
MDICE TRS TG 22705 Urbana Public Works
MDICE TRS TG 22701 Champaign Public Works
151.0100 (DCS205) Savoy Public Works
153.5450 (192.8) Rantoul Public Works
Starcom21 TRS, Site 203 - TG 5671 IDOT Leverett and TG 5670 IDOT Champaign. For other IDOT TGs, see below.
MDICE TRS TG 22708 County Highway Department

State IDOT (adjacent jurisdictions)
 You're likely to hear activity from these IDOT Yards on Starcom21 TRS (TG Yard):

  • 3742 IDOT District 4: Gibson City Yard (Ford County)
DEC HEX Mode Alpha Tag Description
4480  1180  D  DT5 Operations A  Operations A 
4481  1181  D  DT5 Operations B  Operations B 
4488  1188  D  DT5 Operations C  Operations C 
4489  1189  D  DT5 Operations D  Operations D  
5662  161e  D  DT5 MonticElo Yd  Monticello Yard [Piatt] 
5663  161f  D  DT5 Clinton Yard  Clinton Yard [DeWitt] 
5664  1620  D  DT5 Bloomington  Bloomington Yard [McLean] 
5665  1621  D  DT5 Townda/LeRoy  Towanda / Leroy Yards [McLean] 
5666  1622  D  DT5 Paris Yard  Paris Yard [Edgar] 
5667  1623  D  DT5 Tuscola Yard  Tuscola Yard [Douglas] 
5668  1624  D  DT5 Fithian Yard  Fithian Yard [FN-Vermilion] 
5669  1625  D  DT5 Danvile Yard  Danville Yard [Vermilion] 
5670  1626  D  DT5 Champaign Yd  Champaign Yard [Champaign] 
5671  1627  D  DT5 Leverett Yd  Leverett Yard [Champaign] 
5672  1628  D  DT5 Signs/Brdges  Sign Shop / Bridge Yard (Ridgway?) 

Champaign (City)

Champaign Police

  • 700 units - Champaign PD Patrol 900 units - Champaign PD Supervisors
As of September 24, 2007, Champaign Police is using MDICE for all their operations.
Their dispatch talkgroup TG 21500 'PATROL 1' IS NOT simulcast on 453.4000 however. All UHF usage is over. For emergencies or car-car, the units will use TG 21506 PATROL OPS 1 (which is encrypted). During events, if they are not on PATROL 1, they will use INCIDENT 4 or one of the other INCIDENT talkgroups.

Dispatched by METCAD.

  • Units: 700s - patrol officers; 900s - supervisors; 7K#s - command officers

Champaign Police Beats

Champaign PD Beat Map presented in the June 26, 2007 Champaign City Council Meeting

North District
Beat 1-1 - East of Neil and north of University Ave.
Beat 1-2 - Prospect to Neil north of University Ave.
Northwest District
Beat 1-3 - Area bounded by Prospect, University Ave, McKinley
Beat 1-4 - Area bounded by University, McKinley and Bradley
Beat 1-5 - Duncan to Rising Rd. north of University Ave. and South of Bloomington Rd. (not on the map)
South District
Beat 2-1 - East of Neil St and south of University Ave.
Beat 2-2 - Prospect to Neil but south of University Ave.
Southwest District
Beat 2-3 - Mattis to Prospect but south of University Ave.
Beat 2-4 - West of Mattis and south of University Ave.

Source: Chamapign City Council Meeting - June 26, 2007 "Policing Strategies by District" (SS 2007-042)

Champaign Fire

As of January 29, 2008, Champaign Fire is using MDICE for their operations. Paging occurs on 154.2500 which is simulcast on MDICE TG 22012 FIRE DISPATCH. Fire responses are on TG 22000 FIRE OPS 1. FIREGROUND talkgroups are used for working fires, especially FIREGROUND 1.

Dispatched by METCAD.

  • Units: Champaign County MABAS Division 28 changed all the county fire radio ids on 11/26/07. Current Champaign Fire Department radio ids can be found here.

Champaign Park District

Urbana (City

Urbana Police

As of August 24, 2007, Urbana PD is using MDICE for all their operations.
Their dispatch talkgroup TG 21502 'PATROL 3' (was PATROL 2 prior to 7/8/14). For emergencies or car-car, the units will use TG 21508 PATROL OPS 3. During events, if they are not on PATROL 3, they will use INCIDENT 4 or one of the other INCIDENT talkgroups.

Dispatched by METCAD

  • Units: 300s - patrol officers; 400s - supervisors

Dispatch is on MDICE TG 21502 - also on this channel are U of I PD (100s/200s).

Urbana Fire

As of January 29, 2008, Urbana Fire is using MDICE for their operations. Paging occurs on 155.04 which is simulcast on MDICE TG 22012 FIRE DISPATCH. Fire responses are on TG 22000 FIRE OPS 1. FIREGROUND talkgroups are used for working fires, especially FIREGROUND 1.

Dispatched by METCAD.

  • Units: 200s

Urbana Park District

  • 151.43 DCS506 (removing snow at their facilities)

Other CU Districts

Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District

Champaign-Urbana Public Health District

  • Champaign County METCAD MDICE - Project 25 Phase I CUPHD has talkgroup 22716 assigned to them
  • 151.0925 M Mobile Ops WREI979 FCC Terminated 10/20 WQCP549 [Expired 4/15]

Other Municipalities

Township/Village Highway

  • 151.055 KIL250 BM Pesotum Township Road District [Expired 6/05] FMN Deprecated 1/2/25
Frequency  Input   
License  Type  Tone  Alpha Tag  Description  Mode  Tag 
159.01500      KD43761   M  CSQ  Chmpgn TwpRoads Champaign Township Road District  FMN  Public Works 
159.12000  153.90500   WPWM787   RM  131.8 PL  EBend Twp Roads East Bend Road District (Dewey)  FMN  Public Works 
159.16500      WNHP851   BM  103.5 PL  HensleyTwp Roads Hensley Township Road District [Expired 12/21]  FMN  Public Works 
159.07500      WPXB677   BM    NewcombTwpRoads Newcomb Township Road District (Highway/Snow Plows)  FMN  Public Works 
151.05500      KIL250   BM    PesotumTwpRoads Pesotum Township Road District [Expired 6/05]  FMN  Deprecated 
159.01500      KB31731   M  CSQ  Urbana Twp Roads Urbana Township Road District  FMN  Public Works 
151.07000  159.04500   WPWE967   RM  244 DPL  Ogdrn Twp Roads Ogden Township Road Maintenance   FMN  Public Works 
156.12000      WQPA546   BM  123.0 PL  SadorusTwpRoads Sadorus Township Road Maintenance [Expired 3/22]  FMN  Public Works 
151.03250  155.99250   WQRC999   RM  162.2 PL  Tolono Twp Roads Tolono Township: Roads [Expired 4/23]  FMN  Public Works 
453.33750  458.33750   WQVH393   RM  464 DPL  Comprms TwpRoads Compromise Township: Road District [Expires 2/25]  FMN  Public Works 
  • 151.115 (131.8) Village of Homer
  • 155.865 (131.8) Village of Mahomet
  • 151.31 DCS071 Village of St Joseph

Rantoul Township Road District - serve the rural roads to the south and west of Rantoul.

Broadlands

  • EMA 154.9275 Mobiles WQPZ343
  • 154.13 BM 82.5 PL Brdlnds Fire: Dispatch (DB: Douglas County Sheriff) (Sheriff tone is 123.0)

Corn Belt Fire Protection District (Mahomet)

  • Serves Mahomet and the surrounding areas (west of Champaign).
  • An Arrow Ambulance paramedic is stationed and responds with CBFPD.

Fisher

  • 155.88 BM ESDA: Local [Expired 8/24] FMN KNJX295 Deprecated 1/2/25
  • EMS by Arrow Ambulance

Gifford

  • 151.3775 WQRS200 F EMA / Outdoor Warning Sirens [Terminated 2014] (CSQ) Telm Emergency Ops

Homer (Village)

  • 456.05 FXO at Homer/Ogden for Water Data

Ivesdale

  • EMS by Arrow Medical Services

Ludlow

Mahomet

  • 453.3125 KCP502 BM Water/Sewer: GPS/Digital [Expired 6/23] Telm Deprecated 1/2/25
  • 956.28125 WQHJ767 F Data [Expired 8/17] Telm Deprecated 1/2/25

Mahomet ESDA WEB

Ogden

Pesotum

Philo

  • Law by the Champaign County Sheriff - on the MDICE TRS {Beat 17}
  • 155.895 WNPE552 BM ESDA [Expired 12/23] FMN Deprecated 1/2/25

Rantoul

  • Since July 8, 2014, Rantoul PD is dispatched by METCAD on MDICE PATROL 2 TG 21501. They identify on the air as "Rantoul #". County Sheriff (500s) and the rural towns (6-Letter-#) also share the talkgroup with them.

Royal

Sadorus

  • EMS by Arrow Medical Services

  • 155.145 KNCZ423 BM ESDA [Expired 3/22] FMN Deprecated 1/2/25

Savoy

  • Law by Champaign County Sheriff - now on MDICE TRS {Beat 10}
  • EMS coverage by PRO Ambulance

Sidney

  • Law by Champaign County Sheriff- on MDICE TRS {Beat 18}

  • 158.82 KNJT929 BM Village Ops [Expired] FMN Deprecated 1/2/25

St. Joseph

  • Law by Champaign County Sheriff - on MDICE TRS
  • 154.025 KNHJ734 BM ESDA / Public Works [Expired 9/23] FMN Deprecated 1/2/25

St. Joseph-Stanton Fire Protection

  • Units IDs 140s

Thomasboro

Tolono

  • EMS by Arrow

EMS Agencies and Hospitals

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Arrow Ambulance (AMSEC)

Arrow Medical Services / Carle Arrow Ambulance

  • Carle Arrow Ambulance, based in Champaign, IL operated by/under the direction of Carle Foundation Hospital (Urbana, IL), the region's only Level 1 Trauma Center and Level 3 Perinatal / Neonatal Center . Arrow is a 911 Responding, ALS (1 ILS volunteer unit), Metropolitan & Rural, Hospital Based, Private & Non-for-Profit Ambulance Service.

Serving the emergency needs of Champaign, Dewitt, and Douglas Counties with postings in Champaign/Urbana, Sadorus, Tuscola, Villa Grove, and Farmer City with a Paramedic first responder is stationed 24/7 with Cornbelt Fire Protection District (Mahomet).

Providing Emergency Medical Services to the Citizens of Champaign, Urbana & Bondville fire protection areas by assignment of Medic Response Zones, which rotate monthly.

Primary EMS transporting provider in Champaign, Douglas, and Dewitt Counties to the following Fire Departments / Districts: Broadlands/Longview Carroll, Cornbelt, Edgescott, Sadorus/Ivesdale, Philo, Pesotum, Sidney, St. Joseph, Tolono, Atwood, Camargo, Farmer City, Newman, Tuscola, and Villa Grove.

Each ambulance is ALS, staffed with minimum of one Paramedic and one EMT-B. The ambulance in Sadorus is staffed with at least one EMT-I & EMT-B with personnel provided by Sadorus/Ivesdale Fire.

The company has 12 ambulances at this time: 8275, 8276, 8277, 8278, 8279, 8281, 8282, 8283, 8284, 8285, 8286, 8287. 2 Command Units: 8210 staffed by the Director and 8202 and 8203 staffed by the regional Managers. Special Service Vehicles: 8291 an ALS equipped stretcher transporting golf cart for U of I sports events & other standby’s as well as 8292 which is the Large Incident/Relief Mobile Clinic, responds primarily for working fires in Champaign and adjoining counties. Arrow also operates two wheelchair units 8221 and 8222 that are used for hospital discharge units to take wheelchair bound people home after hospital stays.

Airlife 1 Carle Foundation Hospital and ARCH Air Medical Service, Inc. have come together to offer emergency air medical transportation services to east central Illinois. The 18-member flight crew consists of experienced EMS pilots, physicians, critical care flight registered nurses, obstetrical and neonatal nurses, and critical care flight paramedics. AirLife currently operates two Eurocopter H-130's based in Urbana and Olney. They are dispatched jointly through ARCH in Saint Louis and AMSEC in Champaign.

AMSEC – Arrow Medical Services Emergency Communications Working in conjunction with METCAD (Champaign County PSAP), CENCOM (Dewitt County PSAP), and “Douglas” (Douglas County PSAP), AMSEC telecommunicators are tasked with the gathering of information related to a pending medical call provided by the PSAP/Private Caller, pinpointing its location, dispatching the appropriate unit, and support of units responding to an emergency call. All AMSEC telecommunicators are National Academy of Emergency Dispatch, Emergency Medical Dispatch Trained/Certified to provide private line callers the same experience as calling 9-1-1. Primary means of communication is a base Motorola Centracom which allows monitoring/speaking on Arrow Ops 1(MDICE), Arrow CU/Airlife Paging (UHF), and Arrow Douglas Talk/Paging (UHF), and Champaign County Fire Paging which is simulcast on Arrow Paging Channel (VHF). All units have individual dual tones which allows AMSEC to open their station/unit Minitor V.

Arrow uses MDICE FIRE OPS 1 or FIREGROUND channels to communicate with METCAD for calls in Champaign County. ARROW OPS 1 used as primary talk channel for all units and AMSEC.

AMT East Ambulance WEB FB

  • American Medical Transport, 408 S Neil St, Champaign, IL 61820
  • Formerly OSF Pro Ambulance (Champaign) disbanded 1/17/22
  • In January of 2022, Advanced Medical Transport (AMT) brought our nationally-recognized model of Emergency Medical Services to parts of Champaign and Vermilion counties, replacing the former OSF PRO ambulance services.
  • Advanced Medical Transport (AMT) is the premier provider of emergency and scheduled ambulance services in Central, Eastern and Western Illinois. AMT also operates another enterprise serving clients in Southeast Iowa with diverse needs. AMT is a private, not-for-profit organization governed by a community-based Board of Directors.

ILLINOIS PATIENT TRANSPORT (IPT)

  • A division of Advanced Medical Transport of Eastern Illinois. IPT provides services to hospitals and patients requiring compassionate supervision during transportation between healthcare facilities. The division is responsible for transportation throughout Illinois, except Cook County. Operated 24 hours a day, the service uses a high quality, technologically advanced fleet of automobiles.

Posts--

  • 1 unit at Pro Central (Neil and Springfield)
  • 1 unit at Rantoul Police/Fire
  • 1 unit at Prow West or Urbana 1 (depends on the month Arrow and Pro trade Champaign (Medic 4) and Urbana (Medic 1) response areas on the 15th of each month)
  • Formerly 1 unit at Savoy Fire (Arrow now has the Savoy Contract)

EMS Units: (Plates 6 716 01 - 6 716 15) Type III ALS

Note added 8/6/21, the above is very out of date and needs updated. Pro is no longer at any of the above stations, except for "Pro Central". Pro now works 24 hour shifts.

EMS Agencies

  • Paging for medical calls is on 154.25 (131.8).

The ambulance will communicate with either Carle or Presence Hospitals on MERCI 155.34 with a PL tone of either 186.2 or 210.7. The hospitals transmit back on 155.34 in CSQ.

Arrow Ambulance

As of November 2011, Arrow Ambulance is now using MDICE for its responses in Champaign County

Arrow Ambulances communicate with METCAD on either MDICE Fire Ops 1 or Fireground 5 (as directed by METCAD via page on 154.250) and communicate with their dispatch on the frequencies listed below:

  • MDICE TG 22016 Arrow Ops 1 - Arrow Ambulance Dispatch
  • 151.3475 (CSQ) Arrow Ambulance paging (and simulcasts of Arrow pages by METCAD on 154.2500)
  • MDICE TG 22017 Arrow Ops 2 - encrypted
  • 462.975 (179.9) still used by Airlife medical helicopter, rarely used by Arrow Ambulance Dispatch

PRO/AMT Ambulance

As of May 2009, PRO Ambulance is now using MDICE for its responses in Champaign County

Pro Ambulances communicate with METCAD on either MDICE Fire Ops 1 or Fireground 5 (as directed by METCAD via page on 155.0400) and communicate with their dispatch on the frequencies listed below:

  • MDICE TRS TG 22018 - PRO OPS 1 Pro Ambulance Dispatch
  • MDICE TRS TG 22019 - PRO OPS 2 Pro Ambulance Ops (rarely used)
  • 462.9500 (186.2) PRO Ambulance Dispatch NO LONGER IN USE, repeater still active (mostly wrong channel traffic here)
  • 461.6000 (DCS464) PRO Ambulance - Medivan -- No longer used?? No longer in use (updated 8/6/21, but this hasn't been in use for years)

All Danville/Vermilion County and travel operations are on Starcom21 TG 6236 As of January 2022, PRO Ambulance is now AMT Ambulance

U of I - Illini Emergency Medical Service

Provides medical coverage for U of I events.

  • 451.45 (DMR) Illini Emergency Medical Service - main operations (used this channel when it was analog, unsure if they still use it...see below)
  • MDICE TRS TG 22717 - IEMS used this during the 2014 Illinois Marathon
  • 158.865 (CSQ) Illini Emergency Medical Service - "talkabout" channel -- still used??

Hospitals

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Carle Foundation Hospital

  • 464.8000 (DMR) Carle Hospital Security
  • 463.4500 (DCS411) Carle Hospital Maintenance
  • 464.4250 (DCS226) Carle Hospital Shuttle Buses

OSF HMMC Hospital

Schools

CUSD#7 (Tolono)

  • Wireless Clocks on 467.2125 Mobiles/pagers WQQX263

Heritage School District 8

  • 452.2 Repeater (not heard in use) 464.05 Repeater CAP+ CC14 TG11 heard in area - POSSIBLY connected to the Champaign system (2019) WQVH525

Mahomet-Seymour School District 3

  • 40-4W portables on 457.675, 461.9875, 466.9875, 462.0875, 467.0875 (NFM/DMR) WQSY393

Rantoul City School District 137 WEB

  • 461.375 80W Repeater with 20-4W portables on 466.375, 464.3375, 469.3375 (NFM) WSEY616 Issued 10/24

Rantoul Township High School

  • Safety/Security - 45-4W portables on 463/468.6625, 464/469.8625, 466.9125 (DMR) WRUE248

Colleges and Universities

University of Illinois

Parkland College WEB/MAPS

As of December 17, 2007, Parkland College Police is now using MDICE TRS TG 21505 (Patrol 6). They no longer use 453.825.
  • 453.5750 (151.4) Parkland College Maintenance

Related links

Fire Pager Tones

Federal Government

Frequencies logged mid 2012 to early 2013.

Frequency Tone/NAC Encrypted? Location heard Notes
163.8625 Yes Downtown Champaign 5 bars signal strength (common FBI repeater input frequency)
167.5375 Yes Downtown Champaign, NW Champaign 1-2 bars signal strength Downtown, 5 bars from Arrowhead Lanes parking lot, 3 bars near downtown Urbana (common FBI repeater output frequency)
167.5625 Yes Near Downtown Urbana 3 bars (common FBI simplex freq)
168.9875 Yes Downtown Champaign FBI?
170.7250 Yes Downtown Champaign 5 bars signal strength (FBI, DOJ?)
170.7500 Yes Near Downtown Urbana & east Urbana (common freq for federal courthouses)
406.7625 DCS122 No Downtown Champaign Room 5034 mentioned, is this an image of another UHF freq?


Airports

Willard Airport

  • MDICE TRS TG 22718 U of I Willard Airport - snow plow trucks

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