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More information on ARCH and Air-Evac on the [[Medical Helicopters / EMS Agencies (Area Wide) (MO)]] page
 
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*Communications can be heard hundreds of miles away
 
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*ARCH Air Medical Services (formerly "Area Rescue Consortum of Hospitals")  
 
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More information on ARCH and Air-Evac on the Medical Helicopters / EMS Agencies (Area Wide) (MO) page

Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH)

IDPH I-REACH/VHF Interoperbility Radios:

  • XTL-5000 (mobile), HT-1250 (portable), MTR-2000 (Base Station)
  • In base radio, 110wt VHF, with up to 16 channels:
    • 1) 155.28 141.3 PL - Statewide Hospital Disaster Coordination
    • 2) 155.34 210.7 PL - Statewide MERCI Tone
    • 3) 155.34, 155.4, 155.16, 155.22 (with Local Tone)

Air Helos/Med-Evac

Air Angels (Bolingbrook)

  • 2/09 - Air Angels copter service goes out of business
  • Locations: Clow International Airport, Bolingbrook & Dupage Airport (W Chicago)
  • Seen on crew handhelds: "Princeton" and "Gary" channels (trunked?)
  • Former use on A-Beep / Sears2 - UHF (Chicago) LTR Standard Possibly using talkgroup 0-20-101
463.47500 468.47500 WPIE265 RM 162.2 PL AirAngels U4 Chicago Alternate 
464.95000 469.95000 WPLE964 RM 047 DPL AirAngels U2 Operations  
469.95000 WPLE964 M 047 DPL AirAngels U3 Ops: Talk Around (w/ dispatcher and on-scene use) 
123.07500 /apps/db/?fccCallsign=M CSQ AirAngels Air Operations

Air Evac Lifeteam

*Additional information on Air-Evac PDF

Air Methods

ARCH Air Medical Services

  • owned by Air Methods; serves Central/Southwest IL and most of MO

Map 

ARCH 2 - Litchfield Airport in Montgomery County 
ARCH 3 - Sparta 
ARCH 9 - Effingham Memorial Airport in Effingham IL

Terms used on air by ARCH 

 Abbott - EMS agency that serves St. Louis County and the MetroEast IL areas (Lifeforce)
 AirEvac - Refering to other AirEMS service in the area (Lifeteam)
 BJC - Barnes-Jewish (Corporation) Hospitals
 Christian - Christian Hospitals in St. Louis? (NE or NW)
 Coordinates - Coordinates (longitude/latitude) of Landing Zone area or current air location
 Downtown Base - Base @ downtown St. Louis
 ETA - Estimated Time of Arrival? (for a scene, hospital or other destination)
 ETE - Estimated Time En-Route
 Fire Mutual Aid - Refers to Missouri, 154.28
 Full Bladder - Full gas tank
 I-REACH - Refers to Illinois, 155.055
 Glennon - Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis
 LC - Loud & Clear
 LifeBeat - Name of ARCH service in Cape Girardeau
 LifeForce - EMS agency that serves St. Louis County and the MetroEast IL areas (Abbott)
 LifeTeam - Refering to other AirEMS service in the area (AirEvac)
 LZ - Landing Zone (for helicopter)
 MedStar - EMS agency that serves St. Clair/Randolph Co in IL
 MED 9 - Refers to dispatch frequency of 462.95 162.2pL
 MERCI - Refers to hospital frequency, 155.34
 POB - Persons on Board (Souls)
 St. Johns Mercy - Hospital @ ....
 Ship - Aircraft/Helicopter
 Simmons - EMS agency that serves St. Clair County IL
 SLU - St. Louis University Hospital
 Souls - People (on board)
 Spirit - Spirit of St. Louis Airport - Chesterfield MO
 "Trauma Rotation" - All hospitals in the St. Louis area get to "take turns" so none are left out
 Status B - unknown (heard enroute to Hospital in Marion)
  • 9/07 - Heard ARCH Base doing morning radio check with ARCH 3 on 159.7125 D032 from Cape Girardeau, MO
  • 11/08 - ARCH Helicopter has added a base at St Johns Hospital Springfield, named "Saints Flight" SJR Article Helicopter Pic
  • 7/11 - ARCH Dispatcher St Louis is now refererred to as AIRCOM
  • 461.525 - St. Louis Repeater - Located at High Ridge? (Jefferson Co MO) - licensed in Randolph County MO) (FX1 - Repeater input was located in downtown StL at the old base, but may now be located in Granite City)


Medstar EMS

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