Champaign-Urbana
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Contents
- 1 SCANNING IN CHAMPAIGN-URBANA
- 1.1 MDICE - METCAD DIGITAL INTEROPERABLE COMMUNICATIONS ENVIRONMENT
- 1.2 Champaign PD
- 1.3 Champaign Fire
- 1.4 Urbana PD
- 1.5 Urbana Fire
- 1.6 Champaign-Urbana Fire Tone-Outs for Uniden Scanners
- 1.7 Champaign County Sheriff's Department
- 1.8 Champaign County EMA (severe weather spotting)
- 1.9 University of Illinois
- 1.10 Illinois State Police
- 1.11 Snow Plow Frequencies
- 1.12 Events
- 2 Related Links
SCANNING IN CHAMPAIGN-URBANA
MDICE - METCAD DIGITAL INTEROPERABLE COMMUNICATIONS ENVIRONMENT
METCAD Public Safety agencies will be migrating from VHF/UHF to a state-of-the-art Motorola ASTRO TRS simulcast system in mid-2007. For more information about this system:
Frequencies:
Site | Name | Freqs | ||||
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001 (1) | Primary | 939.887500 | 939.900000 | 939.912500 | 939.925000 | 939.937500 |
Champaign PD
Dispatched by METCAD.
- Units: 700s - patrol officers; 900s - command officers
Champaign Fire
Dispatched by METCAD.
- Units: 10s and 100s Chief Officer cars are Car 1,6,8,9. Comand car is Car 10. We have Engine 11,12,13,14,15,16 and resurve engines 112,113. We have ladder trucks 111,114 and resurve ladder 115. We have rescue 18 and resurve rescue 118.
Listen live to Champaign Fire and EMS streaming audio:
Uniden Fire Tone-Outs for Champaign Fire can be found here
'"`UNIQ--freqsubcat-00000002-QINU`"'
Urbana PD
Dispatched by METCAD on 453.900 (118.8)
- Units: 300s - patrol officers; 400s - command officers
{also on this channel are U of I PD (100s/200s), County Sheriff (500s) and Rural PDs (6Letter#'s)}.
Alternate/car-car is on 453.975 (118.8) or talkaround on 453.900 (118.8). Tactical ops are on 155.655 (107.2).
'"`UNIQ--freqsubcat-00000003-QINU`"'
Urbana Fire
Dispatched by METCAD.
- Units: 20s and 200s
Listen live to Champaign area Fire and EMS streaming audio.
Uniden Fire Tone-Outs for Urbana Fire can be found here
'"`UNIQ--freqsubcat-00000004-QINU`"'
Champaign-Urbana Fire Tone-Outs for Uniden Scanners
- Sources: CARMAchicago Yahoo!Group's Database section and from personal monitoring using counter.exe
- the following tones have all been verified using a BCD396T
Champaign Fire Tone-Outs
Frequency | Tone A | Tone B | Station | |
154.070 | 1153.4 | 1395.0 | Champaign FD Station 1 | |
154.070 | 1185.2 | 1395.0 | Champaign FD Station 2 | |
154.070 | 1217.8 | 1395.0 | Champaign FD Station 3 | |
154.070 | 1251.4 | 1395.0 | Champaign FD Station 4 | |
154.070 | 1285.8 | 1395.0 | Champaign FD Station 5 | |
154.070 | 1321.2 | 1395.0 | Champaign FD Station 6 |
Urbana Fire Tone-Outs
Frequency | Tone A | Tone B | Station | |
154.070 | 1433.4 | 1185.2 | Urbana FD Station 1 (Headquarters/Downtown) | |
154.070 | 1395.0 | 1185.2 | Urbana FD Station 2 (South Station) | |
154.070 | 1357.6 | 1185.2 | Urbana FD Station 3 (North Station) | |
154.070 | 1321.2 | 1185.2 | Urbana FD Station 4 (West Station/U of I Campus) |
Medic 1 and Medic 4 Fire Tone-Outs
Frequency | Tone A | Tone B | Station | |
154.070 | 1395.0 | 1217.8 | Medic 1 | |
154.070 | 1357.6 | 1217.8 | Medic 4 |
Champaign County Sheriff's Department
Dispatched by METCAD.
- Units: 500s are Sheriff's Department Deputies. Also on the same channel 453.150/453.900 are U of I PD (100s/200s), Urbana PD (300s/400s) 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).
- The Sheriff's Department uses 453.150 (118.8) for dispatch. 453.150 is always patched to 453.900 so you hear the same radio traffic on both channels. Ch2 is talkaround on 453.150. Ch4 453.625 is rarely used, but is a countywide repeater for the Sheriff's Department. For events like U of I football games or the annual County Fair, the deputies use 453.250 (118.8).
Frequency | Input | License | Type | Tone | Alpha Tag | Description | Mode | Tag |
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453.30000 | 458.30000 | WRFB829 | RM | Chmp Shrf Jails | Sheriff: Jail (Satellite R; downtown M) | DMR | Corrections | |
453.72500 | KUD283 | M | 118.8 PL | Chmp JuvDntn | Juvenile Detention Center [Expired 2015] | FMN | Corrections | |
453.30000 | 458.30000 | WRFB829 | RM | ChmpShrf Jail B | Sheriff: Jail (SL1/2) (2002) | DMR | Corrections | |
453.51250 | 458.51250 | WRFB829 | RM | ChmpShrf Jail C | Sheriff: Jail (Simulcast w/ 453.3? in use) | DMR | Corrections |
Champaign County EMA (severe weather spotting)
The main frequency to monitor when storms approach is the 155.040 (131.8) repeater. Also worth monitoring is the Champaign County ARES spotter channel 444.100 (162.2). Since both of these frequencies are used for other purposes during regular weather, it is best to lock them out in your scanner until the weather turns severe. 155.115 (131.8) is used solely for EMA purposes.
Countywide
- 155.040 (131.8) County Weather Spotters [repeater]
- 155.115 (131.8) County EMA fixed point-to-point channel [simplex]
- 444.100 (162.2) Champaign County ARES spotters [repeater]
- 147.060 (131.8) Champaign County ARES (backup to 444.100) [repeater]
- City of Champaign TRS TG 208 has severe weather watches/warnings announcements
Village/Rural Spotters
- 151.115 (131.8) Homer ESDA
- 155.865 (131.8) Mahomet ESDA
- 158.805 (127.3) Savoy ESDA [likely a repeater]
- 158.820 (186.2) Thomasboro ESDA
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 | Tornado Sirens - DTMF activation | FMN | Data |
45.56000 | BM | 103.5 PL | Champ ESDA45 | ESDA: Local Net (210.7 PL State?) | FM | Emergency Ops |
Champaign County SKYWARN
'"`UNIQ--freqsubcat-00000007-QINU`"'
University of Illinois
U of I Police and Fire
Police is dispatched by METCAD. U of I PD is dispatched on 453.900 (118.8). This repeater is shared with Urbana PD (300s and 400s), County Sheriff's Department (500s) and Rural PDs (6___#). 100s are U of I patrol officers, 200s are U of I command officers. Fire dispatch is provided by Champaign and Urbana Fire Dept's on 154.070 (131.8). During sporting events, concerts, and parades, U of I PD use 453.250 (118.8) while working at the event.
University of Illinois - Athletics
University of Illinois Athletics frequencies:
Frequency | Type | Tone | Alpha Tag | Description | Mode | Tag |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
464.82500 | M | 411 DPL | UIMS LuxFood | Memorial Stadium: Luxury Suites - Food Service [Ch 13] (still in use 2013) |
FMN | Schools |
464.37500 | M | 072 DPL | UIMS LuxMntc | Memorial: Luxury Suites - Maintenance [Ch 12?] (still in use 2013) |
FMN | Schools |
For detailed information about scanning U of I football games, see this forum thread
-For public safety at Memorial Stadium, METCAD police agencies use 453.250 (118.8) while ISP D10 troopers use HF-4 155.460 (CSQ) in simplex mode. Fire operations are on 154.265. EMS operations are either by Arrow Ambulance on 462.975 (179.9) or Pro Ambulance (186.2). Illini EMS uses 451.450 (DCS 131).
During events at the University of IL Assembly Hall:
- 464.525 (100.0 PL) Assembly Hall main operations
- 463.350 (DCS506) Assembly Hall security
- 453.250 (118.8 PL) METCAD PD Ch 5-EVENTS
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.
Statewide ISP frequencies commonly used around Champaign-Urbana.
- 155.475 HF-1 ISPERN - Illinois State Police Emergency Radio Network
- 155.055 HF-3 I-REACH -- Statewide Interagency Mutual Aid
- 155.460 HF-4 Rarely used in Champaign-Urbana, except it is used at U of I football games
- 42.500 LF-2 Statewide car-car (ex. radar details)
- 154.905 ISP DCI HF-2 Rarely used in District 10 (mobiles tx PL
- 155.505 ISP Mobile Extenders
ISP District 10 Pesotum Conventional Frequencies:
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 |
ISP District 10 Starcom21 Trunked System (future use):
(ISP District currently uses the conventional frequencies listed above. Below are believed to be the Starcom21 Motorola P25 TRS talkgroups that will be used when ISP District 10 leaves their conventional frequencies.)
Sites
Site | Name | Freqs |
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Site | Name | Freqs | |||||||
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001 (1) | Primary | 855.337500a | 855.937500a | 856.787500 | 856.912500 | 857.912500 | 858.787500 | 858.912500 | 859.787500c |
859.912500c | 860.787500c | 860.912500c |
Talkgroups
Description |
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Snow Plow Frequencies
City, State, and County Highway Departments
453.525 (118.8) Urbana Public Works
47.340 (110.9) State IDOT - Champaign
47.140 (110.9) State IDOT - Leverett
155.040 (131.8) County Highway Department
453.650 (118.8) U of I Facilities Services
Champaign TRS TG 16 Public Works
Township Highway Departments
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 | Public Works | ||
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 | FMN | Public Works |
Events
University of Illinois Fighting Illini Football and Basketball games
For sporting events, concerts, etc. at Memorial Stadium or Assembly Hall, see above.
Fourth of July Fireworks
PD used 453.250 (118.8) repeater
Unofficial St. Patrick's Day - U of I
Each year around the first weekend of March, many U of I students celebrate a day long drinking holiday called "Unofficial St. Patrick's Day". There are surprisingly few interesting scanner calls on this day (mostly overconsumption medical calls and 10-38's), but here is what was active this past Friday:
Unofficial St Patrick's Day 2007
Champaign PD used 453.400 (campustown bars and off-campus parties)
U of I PD was on 453.250 during the day, but at 4:30pm they switched back to 453.900 (campus area calls)
Champaign/Urbana Fire (and medical paging) 154.070
Urbana PD used 453.900 (very little "Unofficial" related activity compared to 453.400 or 453.250 - I locked out 453.900 until U of I switched back to this channel)
Try also:
155.340 MERCI
462.975 Arrow Ambulance
462.950 Pro Ambulance
Champaign Christmas Parade
Champaign PD used 453.250 (118.8) for the 2006 Christmas Parade while the Champaign Parks and Rec used TG 4016 on the Champaign TRS
Champaign County Fair
Sheriff's Dept uses 453.250 (118.8). If the deputy needs to contact METCAD, they do it over the 453.150 repeater (so also monitor 458.150 (118.8) while at the fair).
Staff at the fair used FRS frequencies in 2006:
- 462.5625 (67.0) gate ops
- 462.6125 (250.3) tractor pull
The fairgrounds is unincorporated, so monitor the following for fire department activity (Eastern Prairie FPD):
- 154.250 (131.8) County Rural Fire
- 154.265 (CSQ) MABAS IFERN
- 153.830 (CSQ) MABAS Fireground red
Sweetcorn Festival - Urbana, IL
Scanner frequencies for the annual Urbana Sweet Corn Festival:
- 453.250 (118.8) Urbana PD
- 453.525 (118.8) Urbana Public Works