Champaign County Illinois

Satellite jail uses a TRBO low-power repeater on 453.300 while the downtown jail is using TRBO simplex on 453.300.

For more information about severe weather scanning in Champaign County, see the Champaign-Urbana wiki page.

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 8230 staffed by “Badge 3”. 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 one twin engine Eurocopter BK-117 with a travel speed of 150 miles per hour. 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.

Provides medical support during many University of Illinois events

The Pro unit at Savoy changes twice a day. Pro works 12 hr days so a new unit comes in at shift change. At any one time 4 of their units are just parked in the bay at Pro Central in Champaign.

Posts   1 unit at Pro Central (Neil and Springfield), 1 unit at Savoy Fire, 1 unit at Rantoul PD/Fire, 1 unit at Champaign 4 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)
EMS Units: 3P41 thru 3P48 (Plates 6 716 01 - 6 716 08) Type III ALS

700 units - Champaign PD Patrol 900 units - Champaign PD Supervisors
As of 9/29/07 Champaign PD now uses the MDICE TRS exclusively (no UHF)

The Champaign Park District has migrated their operations from the City of Champaign TRS to a conventional repeater on 856.7375 with multiple PL tones as well as a VHF frequency.

PL tone of 67.0 was found via CloseCall on 151.090 during the 2007 Taste of Champaign-Urbana

Sadorus Township Road District - WQPA546 - 156.12 Base/Mobile (Low Power NFM)
Tonono Township - WQRC999 for 151.0325 Repeater with 155.9925 input (NFM)  - Faintly hearing 162.2 PL on this in Urbana, probably Tolono.

WQPZ343 - 154.9275 Base/Mobile (11K for EMA - 4 mobiles)

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

Ambulance service provided by Arrow Ambulance

Gifford Fire Protection District

EMS by Arrow Medical Services

Mahomet Police Department
*Can communicate with Piatt County deputies on 155.595R 131.8 PL
Mahomet ESDA   Website

Police coverage is provided by the Champaign County Sheriff's Dept - on the MDICE TRS {Beat 17}

EMS by Arrow Medical Services

Police coverage is provided by the Champaign County Sheriff's Dept - now on MDICE TRS (formerly on 453.15R 118.8 PL) {Beat 10}

EMS coverage by PRO Ambulance  

Police coverage is provided by the Champaign County Sheriff's Dept - now on MDICE TRS (formerly on 453.15R 118.8 PL) {Beat 18}

Police coverage is provided by the Champaign County Sheriff's Dept - now on MDICE TRS (formerly on 453.15R 118.8 PL) {Beat 11}
*5/13 - FCC Application 0005757147 for 151.31 Repeater with 155.91 (NFM) for Street Department

*Units IDs in the 140s

*EMS by Arrow Medical Services

Police Units: IDs 100s-Patrol Units, 200-Supervisors 9/07 - U of I PD now uses the MDICE TRS TG 21501. UIUC fire coverage is provided by Urbana and Champaign Fire Departments on the MDICE TRS. Most of the coverage is from Urbana Station 4 located at 1105 W. Gregory. Willard Airport - See Airports

*72.180, 72.26 WQDJ722 MP Wireless Clock System (125 receivers)
*453.325 131.8 Loud Noise, downtown Urbana (3/13)
*WQPG896 1 mobile/8 pagers (NFM Digital) on 467.2125, 467.3875
*Newman Foundation - Student Housing - WPYT628 -  Mobiles on 451.625 (NFM)
 

The following frequencies are used during other Division of Intercollegiate Athletics (DIA) events too.  More info about Memorial Stadium and other U of I sporting events can be found at the Illini Sports wiki page.

*WQKZ473 also licensed for mobiles on 451.7125, 452.0875, 452.8375, 452.8675, 452.7125

For more information regarding scanning at U of I sporting events, see the Champaign-Urbana wiki page.