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Lake County

Lake County Fire Departments

  • Fire Departments and their Dispatch Offices in Lake County IL are divided into four quadrants (Quads). The division lines being IL 45 and IL 120 for east/west. The quad numbers start in the NE and work counter-clockwise, the quad # starts your vehicle ID #, followed by the FD #, then the vehicle type.
  • Fire Unit IDs

Lake County Fire Departments Specialized Response Teams (HAZMAT)

  • WQKS403 License for Bomb Disposal Robot, using frequencies of 2460.0 & 458.4875

Lake County Fire Chiefs Association

Lake County

  • 451.27500 WPPA360 BM Highway Department - Surveying Data (Low Power Temporary) *451.30000 WPPA360 BM Highway Department - Surveying Data (Low Power Temporary)
  • 453.21250 WNSD311 M Water Distribution Data (Libertyville)

EMS Agencies and Hospitals

Hospitals - Info

  • Helo LZ (Landing Zone) ops are on Fireground Green 150.79 CSQ
  • McHenry and southern Lake county are assigned MED channels as follows:
    • PRIMARY: 7
    • TERTIARY: 6
    • SECONDARY: 5
    • ITINERANT OR COMMON: 8

Advocate Condell Medical Center (Libertyville)

  • was listed as Condell Memorial Hospital (Libertyville)
  • WQOV418 Repeaters on 464.525, 451.65 (4/8/11K)
  • 158.46000 WQDW445 BP Hospital Paging System [IG]

Evanston Hospital

  • Evanston Hospital Corporation
  • 152.00750 KRL348 BP Paging
  • 157.45000 KRL348 B Paging

Highland Park Hospital

  • Evanston Northwestern Healthcare / Northshore
  • WQVF347 is licensed as a trunked system with another site in Skokie (Cook)

Lake Forest Hospital

  • 5/29 FCC Modification WQLF544, add 461.275 Repeater (11K) and Lakeforest Campus

Vista Medical Center East (Waukegan)

  • WQMJ498 462.3125, 462,2625 Repeaters for Hospital Ops (11K)
  • WNQJ303 Med Channels; *KWE856 Bases on 155.28, 155.34, 155.4

Vista Surgery and Treatment Center (Lindenhurst)

  • WQOK245 for 157.74 Base/Pagers (Data)

Consolidated Dispatch Centers

=Antioch Dispatch Center

Lake Villa

  • 453.32500 WPKN413 BM Wastewater Lift Stations (Digital)
  • 956.28125 WQFW554 F LkVilla MW1 Microwave Link [Canceled 3/08]
  • 957.33175 WQGX384 F LkVilla MW2 Microwave Link [Canceled 3/08]
  • Police dispatached by Antioch on 470.5875 97.4; Fire on Quad 2 154.4 127.3 PL
  • WQNL611 453.85 RM 11K - Public Works (1/11)

Lindenhurst

CenCom (Round Lake Beach)

  • Joint dispatch center that handles Police & Fire communications in Round Lake & Barrington areas. Also is MABAS Division 4 HQ Dispatch.

Barrington

  • Website
  • Police - Tac with Cook County Law - 470.7375R 97.4 PL

FoxComm Central Dispatch

Fox Lake

  • Police dispatched on Antioch 470.5875 97.4 PL by FOXCOM (w/ Grayslake); also use 460.025 127.3 PL.
  • Fire dispatch on 154.4 127.3 PL Quad-2; also 153.89 127.3 PL Quad-3, 154.37 127.3 PL Quad-2A F-3 FG/Admin

Grayslake Fire Protection District

  • Website
  • Dispatched by FoxComm on 154.4 127.3 PL; Unit #'s begin with 27xx

CenCom (Round Lake Beach)

  • Joint dispatch center that handles Police & Fire communications in Round Lake & Barrington areas. Also is MABAS Division 4 HQ Dispatch.

Greater Round Lake Fire Protection District

  • Website
  • Serves 47,000 in: Hainesville, Round Lake, Round Lake Beach, Round Lake Heights, Grayslake and unicorporated Lake Co.
  • WQNX481 11K remote links at: 458.8125 (Antioch), 458.4875 (Antioch), 458.4375 (Lindenhurst), 458.5375 (Wauconda), 458.0875 (RL Beach), 458.1375 (RL Beach). associated call signs of WPEV790 and KSG520
  • WPEV790 add 453.5375 FXO (Fox Lake), 458.1625 FXO (Antioch), 453.5875 FXO (Grayslake) - Remote Links (11K)
  • Reported use of 155.88 127.3 PL and 153.89 127.3 (Aid with Wauconda)

Hainesville

  • Police shared department with Round Lake park; Fire by Grayslake FPD; Dispatched by CENCOM

Round Lake

NIPSCOM

  • Northern Illinois Public Safety Communications is an association of PDs in the Waukegan area. They own each infrastracture, but each town provides its own dispatch services.

North Chicago

  • Website
  • WQOX637 - 154.47125 Fixed (6K Digital Meter Reading Data)

Waukegan

  • Public Works uses Motorola MaxTracs radios on 155.940 (127.3).

Winthrop Harbor

Zion

  • Website
  • WQNQ255, 456.05 7500-Fixed unit for 1wt Water Data (11K); WQOW560 173.2375 Fixed (6K Water Data)

RED Center

  • Regional Emergency Dispatch Center
  • WPUR736 also in Cook Co for 153.215R Northbrook, 154.16 Evanston, 159.66R Winnetka

Municipalities and Districts

(5) Municipalities and Districts [1] Townships and Water Districts

Beach Park

  • Police patrol by Sheriff's Department; Fire on 154.325 127.3 PL
  • WQNK229 - F 173.3625 6K Digital - Meter Reading

Buffalo Grove (NWCD)

  • Police, Fire & Local Government - See Northwest Central Dispatch
  • 151.5425R (159.495 in) RM BufGrov EMA EMA: Operations [0003863709 Dismissed]


Chicago Regional Search & Rescue LTD (Mundelein)

Countryside Fire Protection District

  • Station 1 in Long Grove & Station 2 in Vernon Hills.
  • Serves most of Vernon Hills, portions of Long Grove, Indian Creek & unincorporated Lake Co. Dispatched on 154.430 as District 41.

Countryside Fire Protection District (Mundelein/Vernon Hills)

  • Serves Vernon Hills and parts of unicorporated Mundelein

Deer Park

  • Served by Kildeer Police (7400s) and Lake Zurich Fire/Rescue

Deerfield

  • Police dispatched by Highland Park on 155.73 127.3 PL
  • Deerfield-Bonnockburn FPD dispatched on 159.66 D031

Deerfield-Bannockburn Fire Protection District

Grayslake

  • WQNJ517 173.2875 Water Data (1/12 add 157.68 Mobiles 6K Data)
  • 956.39375 WQLD220 Microwave Multiple Address System/Data

Grayslake Fire Protection District

  • See FoxComm

Gurnee

Gurnee Police Department

  • Website
  • now using APCO-25 Digital. Radio Techs heard experimenting on 9/6/06 at around 2050. Not sure when a final move to astro will be, but people in the Gurnee area should be ready for a possibly un-announced switch-over to astro. For the time being, analog is still being used, with some astro comm's heard mixed in.

Gurnee Fire Department

  • 9/10 - currently on Lake County Fire Quad I (154.3250 (127.3) (158.7975 input)), reportedly going to their own frequency. More details as we get them. (From CARMA)
  • New Repeater 151.325 R 159.435 input WPWW203 (corrected 12/11/10)

Hawthorn Woods

Highland Park

Island Lake

  • Nov 2011 - Island Lake PD reportedly using digital mode on the Lake County EDACS TRS and cannot be decoded with a scanner.

Kildeer

Knollwood

Lake Bluff

Lake Forest

  • Website
  • Uses 154.265 CSQ as Landing Zone (LZ) for helicopter EMS

Lake Zurich

Lakemoor

Libertyville

  • 4/12 - Moving dispatching to Vernon Hills News Article
  • Fire: Serves Green Oaks

Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire-Riverwoods Fire Protection District

Long Grove

Long Grove Fire Protection District

  • Identifier Station 55 units (near Cook County)


Mundelein

Mundelein Fire/EMS (ALS)

  • Website
  • Fire on 154.43 with Lake Forest, Knollwood,Libertyville and Vernon Hills. Police dispatch is 470.8625.

Newport Township Fire Protection District (Wadsworth/Russell)

  • Serves Wadsworth, Russell, Old Mill Creek, Unincorp Zion, and part of Beach Park
  • Website

Riverwoods

  • WQMH674 451.3125 F Water Data
  • WQMH679 452.7625 F Water Data

Tower Lakes

Vernon Hills

Wadsworth

Wauconda

  • Wauconda Fire Website
  • WQOW557 154.47875 6K Data Fixed for Automatic Meter Reading
  • Wauconda signed an agreement May 3 w/ Tower Lakes to provide SC21 dispatch services.
  • 12/1/2011 - Lakemoor Police dispatch is now handled by Wauconda Police.
  • Unit ID's are as follows, 8100-Wauconda Police, 8400-Tower Lakes Police, 8500-Lakemoor Police units.


(85) Bus Companies


[1] Miscellaneous

[99] Cook Illinois Corporation [99] First Student

[99] Jones Schools Buses (Grayslake)

(86) Schools 

   [1] Special Education District of Lake County (Gages Lake)

[99] Antioch Schools / School District #34


[99] Bannockburn Schools

[99] Buffalo Grove Schools


[99] Community School District #95 (Lake Zurich)

[99] Deerfield Schools


[99] Fox Lake Schools [99] Freemont School District #79 (Mundelein)


[99] Grayslake Community Unit School District #127


[99] Gurnee School District #56

[99] Lake Villa Schools

[99] Libertyville School District #128


[99] Long Grove Schools 

   [99] Milburn Community Consolidated School District #24 (Wadsworth)

[99] Mundelein Schools [99] Round Lake Area School District #116 [99] Stevenson High School (Lincolnshire) [99] Township High School District #113 (HPHS) [99] Warren Township High School District #121 [99] Wauconda School District #118 [99] Waukegan Public School District #60 [99] Woodland School District #50 [99] Zion Elementary School District #16 [99] Zion-Benton Township High School (87) Colleges

[99] College of American Pathologists (Northfield) [99] College of Lake County (Grayslake) [99] Lake County Area Vocational System [99] Trinity International University (Deerfield) [99] University of Chicago

Amateur Radio Categories (999) Amateur Radio

[1] Miscellaneous [31] Lake County ARES/RACES (Amateur Radio) [99] D-STAR (Southern Lake) [99] North Shore Radio Club


Schools

Warren Township High School District #121

Aug 2008: WTHS has upgraded to the MotoTRBO (TDMA digital) system, frequencies are the same but emissions have changed. This system can NO LONGER be monitored by any current scanner.

Old Tones/Information: 

464.67500  469.67500  WPLD897  RM  051 DPL  WTHS BusesF1  Buses; Repeater [F-1]  FM  
464.67500     WPLD897  M  051 DPL  WTHS BusesF1  Buses, Simplex [F-2]  FM  Schools  
466.06250     WPLD897  M  051 DPL  WTHS S/E/M 3  Security after 4pm / Special Events / Maintenance (portables) [F-3]  FM  
466.68750     WPLD897  M  051 DPL  WTHS 4666875  no current use (open frequency) (portables) [F-4]  
461.80000  466.80000  WPLD897  RM  051 DPL  WTHS OP SDNR  O'Plaine Campus - Security/Deans/Nurse/Receptionist [F-5]  
461.80000     WPLD897  M  051 DPL  WTHS OP SDNR  O'Plaine Campus - Security/Deans/Nurse/Receptionist (simplex) [F-6]  
462.17500  467.17500  WPLD897  RM  051 DPL  WTHS AC M/S  Almond Campus - Maintenance/Security after 4pm (portables) [F-7]  
462.17500     WPLD897  M  051 DPL  WTHS AC M/S  Almond Campus - Maintenance/Security after 4pm (portables) [F-8]  FM  
463.40000  468.40000  WPLD897  RM  051 DPL  WTHS SADNR  Deans/Admin/Nurse/Receptionist/Daytime Security [F-9]  FM  
463.40000     WPLD897  M  051 DPL  WTHS SADNR  Deans/Admin/Nurse/Receptionist/Daytime Security (simplex) [F-10]  FM
  • The bus simplex is used when the buses go out of area, such as field trips. The F1 & F5 repeaters are at the O'Plaine campus. The F-7 & F9 are at the Almond campus. C= Campus Usage. Key: A= Almond Campus Usage O= O'plaine Campus Usage. B= Both campus
  • Usage UPDATE -- Summer 2007 - Some repeaters are to be moved and housed on the Gurnee Police Radio Communications Tower.
  • Radios Used: Kenwood TK-3160 and TK-3101, Motorola P1225 and Visar. Mobile Radios Used: Motorola Radius CM300, Motorola Maxtrac and GM300, Motorola Radius M1225 Repeaters are GR300 (F5), GR1225 (F7/F9) and Radius R100 (F1).

    Codes & Unit Lists

    Fire Unit IDs

    • 1 - Quad 1
    • 12 - Dept. 2 (Beach Park)
    • 1200 - Chief of Department
  • 1200 would be the Bonnie Brook Chief. In Lake County, FD radio identifiers are generally based on the following numbers:
    • 00-09 = Chief, then officers in descending rank
    • 10-19 = Primary Engines
    • 20-29 = Secondary Engines
    • 30-39 = Aerial Devices
    • 40-49 = Ambulances
    • 50-59 = Squads (heavy rescues)
    • 60-69 = Tankers
    • 70-79 = Brush Trucks
    • 80-89 = Inspectors
    • 90-99 = Pool Vehicles ("Buggies" ie Chief's cars, and pickup trucks, inspector's vans, etc.)
    In Quad 1, the departments are: (followed by MABAS ID's)
    • 1 = Abbott Labs Fire Brigade (ABBT) - Sep. Freq.- not true MABAS members due to being private company, used for hazmat techs and foam.
    • 2 = Beach Park (formerly Bonnie Brook) (BBFD or BPFD)
    • 3 = Gurnee (GFD)
    • 4 = Newport (NWPT)
    • 5 = North Chicago (NCHI)
    • 6 = Waukegan (WAUK)- Sep. Freq.
    • 7 = Winthrop Harbor (WHFD)
    • 8 = Zion (ZION)
    • 9 = Great Lakes F.D. (NTCN) - Sep. Freq.
    (Great Lakes used to use GLFD, but after they were mistakenly dispatched instead of a tanker from Grayslake (GFPD) to a fire on Christmas in Vernon Hills back in 1993, the county chiefs changed the ID's. Now Grayslake is GRLK)
    Quad 4
    • 2 = Lake Forest (LKFR)
    • 3 = Countryside (CTYD)
    • 4 = Knollwood (KNWD)
    • 5 = Lake Bluff (LKBL)
    • 6 = Libertyville (LBVL)
    • 7 = Deerfield (and Bannockburn)(DEER) - Sep. Freq.
    • 8 = Mundelein (MUND)
    • 9 = Lincolshire-Riverwoods (LRFD)(formerely Vernon FPD - VERN)- Sep. Freq.
    • Fox Lake 22xx
    • Round Lake 26xx
    • Lake Villa 24xx
    • Antioch 21xx

    Unit Designators & Codes

    IDs The second digit identifies the Shift assignment:

    • 5000s Administrative Units
    • 5100s Midnight Shift Patrol
    • 5200s Day Shift Patrol
    • 5300s Afternoon Shift Patrol
    • 5400s Forest Preserve Units
    • 5500s Investigations
    • 5600s Specialty Units (EMA Reserve Deputies)
      • 5605 Assigned to RACES/ARES (not used on EDACS TRS)
      • 5691, 5693 possibly transport vans
    • 5700s Special Details, Court personnel etc.
    • 5800s Special Details, Court personnel etc.
    • 5900s Coroner, Crime Prevention, Warrants, Marine Patrol

    For 5100 thru 5300 units the third digit identifies the Patrol District:

    • 5x1x Northeast 5x5x Central
    • 5x2x Southeast 5x61-3 Long Grove contract cars
    • 5x3x Southwest 5x71-3 Lake Barrington, N Barrington contract cars
    • 5x4x Northwest 5x75-7 Beach Park contract cars
    • 8100?s Wauconda PD 8300?s Port Barrington PD
    • 8200?s Island Lake PD 8400?s Tower Lake PD

    EDACS System - Radio ID's

    • 00101-00105 Dispatch Consoles
    • 00159 Patch (ISPERN)
    • 12300-12330 Sheriff
    • 12346-12446 PW
    • 12448-12596 Transportation
    • 12601-12623 Health Department
    • 12626-12666 Permits
    • 12677-12704 Animal Control
    • 12713-12727 Coroner
    • 12734-12920 Forest Preserve District
    • 12960-12999 Building Maint? (345, 346)
    • 13000-13360 Sheriff
    • 13361-13384 Specialty units
    • 13385-13659 Sheriff (Jail)
    • 13660-13870 Sheriff
    • 13873-12879 Park City PD
    • 14050-14077 Island Lake area units

    Lake County Sheriff?s Office 11 Codes

    • 11-00 Unruly Prisoner, Send Help 11-34 Trouble at Station
    • 11-01 Bringing in Prisoner 11-39 Alarm
    • 11-03 11-40 servicing Squad
    • 11-05 11-44 Open Garage Door
    • 11-06 11-58 Youths gathering
    • 11-08 11-69 Missing person info
    • 11-11 Prisoner, Visitor, official Present 11-78 Report Number
    • 11-16 Pick up ____ at _____ 11-93 Burglary Report
    • 11-27 Registration on tag 11-98 Suicide investigation
    • 11-31 Chasing Car 11-99 Abandoned vehicle
    • 11-32 Switch to channel ___
    • ?County 1? is the Babcox Center (Jail and HQ) ?County 2? is the Libertyville Substation

    Municipal Police

    • 1xx Libertyville
    • 6xx Lincolnshire
    • 61xx Antioch
    • 62xx Lake Villa
    • 67xx Fox Lake
    • 7xx Riverwoods
    • 9xx Grayslake
    • 9xx Vernon Hills
    • 2xxx Mundelein

    Businesses

    Miscellaneous

    JBC Funds PN  464.5750  RMF   WQKN275  JBC Funds Parkway North: Sec/Eng/Ops (Deerfield)

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