I live in S. IL/ Franklin County, getting data reads from area but no audio at all, using 2096/WIN96 and imported directly from RadioReference for Starcom 21....
At todays meeting of the Southwestern Illinois Region IV Medical Disaster Committee that is headed by Terry Walhter, of Belleville Memorial, the Region POD...
Terry, Thanks for the update on Madison County, IL. This is somewhat close to me and gives me more information about when/what to expect on the migration to...
In case this was never forwarded before. Terry ... From: " We looked at the radio under RSS. Interesting notes: * Seems to have been set up with som control...
I would wonder exactly whom they called? Did they call MOTOROLA?? or did they call the local Motorola shop (Dechant Electronics / St. Louis Electronics /...
This is the first i've heard an upstate 911 center on Starcom. Transmission heard on Peoria's Simulcast tower on CC 867.975. It was a Blackhawk Mobile unit...
There are no active towers here as yet Jason. I heard the same transmission from Dist 5 today and it came over the 774.55625 freqy. I heard it fine in...
Well i was wrong , today Plainfield IL is dispatching off the 700 mgz freqys at D-5, my RS 2096 and PRO96 are receiving these and decoding them perfect in the...
This is from pjstar.com.... Henry police could get equipment upgrade Saturday, March 11, 2006 BY KEVIN SAMPIER OF THE JOURNAL STAR CAMBRIDGE - A new...
Well I dont believe the Starcom Towers held up well to the 1st round of good storms. I'm not picking up any of the 3 Peoria area CC's. The McLean County live...
Hearing all three right now. LeRoy, Normal, and Congerville. Greg In a message dated 3/13/06 4:53:11 A.M. Central Standard Time, STARCOM21@yahoogroups.com...
Yeah it appears the Congerville system is back online now. HOwever the Peoria simulcast Tower and the Metamora 700 Mhz Tower are still offline. Wonder if...
I was talking to a Moto guy yesterday and he mentioned that he had been out all night on Sunday working on systems that had gone down. I said something about ...
Talked to the same gentleman again today...it indeed wasn't Starcom he was working on after the storms. So for fear of being accused of Motoslander, I must ...
Well whatever there working on, it must not be important enough to get the Peoria Simulcast tower back up and running cuz its been down since Sundays storms...
And it would make sense for that to be a low priority, since no agencies in Peoria are using Starcom for operations...the site could be down for reasons ...
Heard the Peoria EOC manager and a Motorola tech chatting today on TG 30332 I believe it was. They were just testing and it and also mentioned that the Delavan...
Here is another article which appeared in the Bloomington Pantagraph today. This one is regarding the dedication ceremony which took place in McLean County...
from MABASRadio.org: Illinois Senate Bill 2870 Please check back often for an official MABAS position on this legislation. SB 2870 Short Description: ST...
Every where that I see people talking about STARCOM, they have been able to track it using a Radio Shack scanner. My questions is, does Uniden make a scanner...
Actually its the other way around. Radio shack can only listen to the frequencies, it can't trunk track it. The Uniden BCD396T and the soon to come out...
Both Uniden and RadioShack make scanners that can track Starcom's 800 MHz. operations but only the Uniden BC396 and BC996 can track 700 MHz. Some 700 testing...
Greetings all, While in Paducah visiting a longtime ham fried of mine I searched for ISP D22 700/800Mhz sites. Sadly, I did not receive anything. I was very...
Normal Fire Department is now using Starcom 21 (TG 30372) for dispatch/operations. They ceased using the EF Johnson TRS on March 22, 2006. I have also heard...
Today here in Joliet i was copying a PD with traffic stops on or near RT150 and a rural road near what they said was Chenoa IL on the same 700 freqys being...
Saw a friend at the AES Superfest in Milwaukee today and he is the ARES Coordinator for Stephenson County. He told me that the county just handed him a...
