StarCom21 --- Illinois Statewide 700/800 MHz Motorola P-25 Trunked Radio System [sys id: 0140]     Need Help? IM Me. If I am around I can help you right now, if not - leave me a message with your email address. PLEASE Read the information below first! I only have a BCD-396, I dont' know anything about the other scanners, sorry! APCO Project-25 Trunked Radio System for voice and data operations for the Illinois State Police. Motorola will install, operate and maintain this ASTRO 6.3 compliant system. Other state, county and local users are invited to join the system as it is implemented to improve interoperability concerns. Agencies that donate their existing 800 MHz frequency pairs to the system will receive substantially reduced rates for air time. Motorola STARCOM21 Website Site Status Map -- JPG  PDF Older ScanIL SC21 Information IEMA/ITTF STARCOM21 Update CARMA Chicago Area Radio Monitoring Association StarCom21 Profile SC21 Map (DeLorme's Street Atlas) Implementation Info/Time Line StarCom21 Wiki Page Towers/Site Reception Area Comments What Scanner Do I Need to Monitor StarCom21?   Updated 11/9/08 !!! To monitor SC21 you need a digital capable scanner. Both Uniden and Radio Shack make these but they differ on what capabilities they have.  Here is a list of the various digital scanners, and what each can do on SC21. There are no other scanners available that can monitor or track SC21 than those listed. Mfr. Radio Yahoo Group MFR Webpage RR.com Wikipage Owners Manual Purchase Radio Hear/Track 800 Audio Hear/Track 700 Audio GPS ? Rebanding Flash?? Tower ID Display Radio ID?  Discr. Tap PC Programming Digital AGC Comments Radio Shack Pro106/ Pro-197 Link Link Link Link Link Link Link   Yes Yes Yes Yes Hex   ?     NEW 11/08 GRE PSR500 PSR600 Link Link Link Link Link Link     Yes Yes Yes  Yes Hex    ?  PSREdit PSREdit YG   NEW 11/07  PSR600 FCC Docs Uniden BCD396t BCD396XT Link Link Link Link 396 396XT   BCD396  Yes Yes No Yes Yes Decimal   Link/ YES! BCTool OR Butel   XT NEW 11/08  Note 3 Uniden BCD996  Link  Link 996     Yes Yes Yes Yes Decimal   ? BCTool OR Butel     WiNRADiO WR-G305e WR-G305i    Link                         Added 12/08 Discontinued Models -- NOT recommended for Starcom21 Uniden BC296D BCD796 Link Link Link Link Link Link     Yes No No  Yes No   ? BCTool OR Butel     Uniden BC250D BCD750 Link Link Link Link Link Link     Yes/No No No No No   ? BCTool OR Butel   Note 2 Radio Shack Pro96 Pro2096 Link Link Link Link Link     Yes Yes/No No Yes Hex   ?     Notes 1, 4 The Radio Shack Pro96/2096 & GRE PSR500/PSR600 display tower ID's in a different format than used by Uniden's BC396 and 996. Most references (including RadioReference.com and CARMA) use the Uniden style of tower ID's. The ability to display Tower ID's allows listeners to determine range and distance as well identify the system being monitored. Note 1: RS Pro96 & 2096 can be modified to hear 700 MHz. communications after a software mod with Win96 (www.starrsoft.com) but will still not track 700 MHz. sites. Note 2: BC250 & 785 can monitor digital audio on 800 MHz. sites, but will not track StarCom21. Note 3: Uniden BC396 and BC996 as well as GRE PSR-500 and PSR-600 can monitor all StarCom21 sites. Note 4: Digital AGC on, P25 Threshold of 9, P25 Response Time and P25 Reference Gain both to -2  Scanner Programming Software:  PSREdit    Butel    bcTool (Uniden Scanners) County ID's used on Display IDs (for Talkgroups) Talkgroup ID's are being identified by their IL SOS (Secretary of State County Number) as follows: (also matches Sheriff Licence plates) 01 Adams 02 Alexander 03 Bond 04 Boone 05 Brown 06 Bureau 07 Calhoun 08 Carroll 09 Cass 10 Champaign --Champaign County may have access to 30358 McLean Rural Law Dispatch (as they border each other) 11 Christian 12 Clark 13 Clay 14 Clinton 15 Coles 16 Cook 17 Crawford 18 Cumberland 19 De Kalb 20 De Witt 21 Douglas 22 Du Page --Dupage Co EOC 400 cars on ID30328 Tower101  23 Edgar 24 Edwards 25 Effingham 26 Fayette 27 Ford 28 Franklin 29 Fulton 30 Gallatin 31 Greene 32 Grundy 33 Hamilton 34 Hancock       235 Hardin 236 Henderson 237 Henry --reported to go online ??? 238 Iroquois 239 Jackson 40 Jasper 41 Jefferson 42 Jersey 43 Jo Daviess 44 Johnson 45 Kane 46 Kankakee 47 Kendall 48 Knox 49 La Salle 50 Lake 51 Lawrence 52 Lee 53 Livingston 54 Logan 55 McDonough  --May 07 -- currently testing on TG20 56 McHenry --reported to go online Summer 08, all co dept 57 McLean 58 Macon 59 Macoupin 60 Madison --Sheriff online May 2007  155.595 Patch Audio  GC - Glen Carbon    PB - Pontoon Beach (Future?) 61 Marion 62 Marshall 63 Mason 65 Massac 65 Menard 66 Mercer 67 Monroe 68 Montgomery 69 Morgan 70 Moultrie 71 Ogle 72 Peoria 73 Perry 74 Piatt 75 Pike 76 Pope 77 Pulaski 78 Putnam 79 Randolph 80 Richland 81 Rock Island 82 Saline 83 Sangamon 84 Schuyler 85 Scott 86 Shelby 87 St. Clair  StClr-Saint Clair (County)  FH-Fairview Heights  Mill-Millstadt  OF-O'Fallon 88 Stark 89 Stephenson 90 Tazewell 91 Union 92 Vermilion 93 Wabash 94 Warren 95 Washington 96 Wayne 97 White 98 Whiteside 99 Will  Plnfld-Plainfield 100 Williamson 101 Winnebago 102 Woodford Abbreviations used on Display IDs & Descriptions Agencies/Organizations *P - Patch *S - Simulcast *D - Dispatch A/C - Animal Control Adm - Administration Amb - Ambulance AP - Airport B-U - Back-up c2c - Car-to-Car D(x) - District (xx) Det - Detectives Drct - Direct Elec - Electrical EMA - Emergency Management Agency (or EM) EMS - Emergency Medical Services ETSB - Emergency Telephone Systems Board/911 FD - Fire Department FG - Fireground Highway - Highway Department HD - Highway Department Inc - Incident Inv - Investigators LE - Law Enforcement LG - Local Goverment (various meanings) M/A - Mutual Aid MERCI - EMS to Hospitals (155.16,22,34,4) MX - Mobile Extenders Ops - Operations PD - Police Department PW - Public Works (or P/W) Reg - Region RL - Rural Law (NEW 11/04) Sanit - Sanitary (District) SD - Sheriff's Department Str - Street Department Tac - Tactical Tech - Technicians (or Radio Technicians) TS - Township Wtr - Water Department Wx - Weather Z(x) - Zone (xx) ANL - Argonne National Laboratory (Chicago)  Website ICJIA - Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority DOC - Department of Corrections (or IDOC) IDPH - Illinois Dept of Public Health IDNR - Illinois Dept of Natural Resources (Conservation) IESMA - Illinois Emergency Services Management Agency (EMA/ESDA) ILEAS - Illinois Law Enforcement ISP - Illinois State Police ITTF - Illinois Terrorism Task Force DCI - Dept of Criminal Investigations (Drug Task Force) MABAS - Mutual Aid Box Alert System (Fire) METCOM SC21 - StarCom21 SOS - Secretary of State The following are ISP districts which are assigned to North, Central, South Zones: North (Zone 1 - Sites 100-199) Central (Zone 2 - 200-299) South (Zone 3 - 300-399) ISP District 01 - Sterling ISP District 02 - Elgin ISP District Chicago ISP District 05 - Joliet ISP District 07 - East Moline ISP District 15 - Tollway ISP District 16 - Rockford ISP District 17 - LaSalle ISP District 21 - Ashkum ISP District 06 - Pontiac ISP District 08 - Peoria ISP District 09 - Springfield ISP District 10 - Pesotum ISP District 14 - Macomb ISP District 20 - Pittsfield ISP District 11 - Collinsville ISP District 12 - Effingham ISP District 13 - DuQuoin ISP District 18 - Litchfield ISP District 19 - Carmi ISP District 22 - Ullin St. Clair County maintains a separate system, but an integral part of SC21.  McHenry County appears to be having a similar situation.  Champagin County MDICE will not be part of SC21 but will have some sort of intergration with SC21 by Motorola.

Talkgroup Groups are listed as follows:

Listed by State Agencies, ISP Districts and then by County. Other miscellaneous agencies also will have their place. "Display ID" - This field is currently being used as a short ID for Scanner Text Description (used with Win92/97, etc). A new field will be coming to the database and the info moved to there. The "Display ID" will then appropriately be used to show what is actually shown on the radio display for that talkgroup.

Talkgroup Miscellaneous Usage & Information

30331  IDPH NET  Illinois Public Health Department Statewide  ----------4/4/07 10:00 AM IL Public Health had County Public Health sites check in. Heard it from Site 231 Congerville (Woodford) 6/07 From a CARMAChicago Yahoogroup member: OK Y'all, this is not 100% precise. Techs were on TG 2038 today. It sounded like one person was at the console and the other had a portable and/or mobile to check channel layouts and here is what I was able to catch and log.........The accronyms are what they had on the radio display. Unknown Zone 1.Primary channel 2. Maint 1-Garage 3. Maint2 -Garage 4. Maint 3-Garage 5. Maint 4-Garage 6. Maint 5 - Garage 7. Maint 6-Garage 8. Maint 7-Garage 9. Maint 8-Garage 10. Maint 11 Garage 11. Maint 12 Garage 12. Maint 14-garage 14-Maint EIG (Everything in General TG) 15 LNWLK - (sounded like they said "lane work"??????) Then another block in a radio or bank of radios is... No specification of 1 through 6 was made. Channel 7.-Roadwide 1 8. Roadwide 2 9. Roadwide 3 10. Blank 11. Blank 12. Talkaround 13. Dist 15 IREACH Zone 4 radio 1. Primary channel 2. ILEAS 3. MABAs 4. Public Health 5. Incident 1 6. Incident 2 7. Incident 3 8. Region 1 9. Region 2 10. Region 3 11. Region 4 12. Region 5 13. Region 6 or 7 ? 14. Region 7 or 8 ? 15. ??????? Too garbled to understand it. Bad signal. Additional channels ?????????? Zone 5 radio 1. C 59 Direct 2. 7T63 Direct 3. 7T 67 Direct 4. 7T 73 Direct 5. 7 C 75 Direct 6. 7T 79 Direct Channels with the ? are the ones that were just bad signals or not loud enough to log accurately.