Scanner help?

This is all I could come up with.

Steger, Illinois - Scanner Frequencies - Phone Numbers - IP Addresses

Try this.

BammBamm said:

This is what they are on.


Project 25 Phase II

Steger and South Chicago Heights PDs are now using SC21 TG 2576 for dispatch

Now what scanner do I need?

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You will need a scanner that will demodulate P25 digital and also receive the 700 MHz public safety band.Many talk groups on the Starcom21 system use TDMA modulation and the only scanner available to receive this was the GRE PSR-800, you will also find encryption in use.GRE went under a year or so ago but if you look around you might find one NOS or used. Whistler has bought GRE but there has been no confirmation on what models will be manufactured.

For now punch in this: (turn your volume up as it is FM narrow)

Steger Fire and Steger Estates FPD dispatched by Fire District 4 on 154.37 CSQ by Steger Police.
**9/30/13 - Steger, Steger Estates, and South Chicago Heights has switched to a VHF repeater system today. They are currently Simulcasting on 154.370 until all the pagers get reprogrammed.

Police are switching to digital incripted radios. Scanning is dead for now. A radio costs $4,000.00ish so the scanner companies do not see a return from buying one and reverse enginering to be able to scan. The funny part is PDS spent $2million to convert and come up with dead spots which take $250k to fix in rural areas. The dead spots come from the fact that the radio in the car is a repeater for all other radios. The car radio is running in the area of 100+ watts but only gets about 2 miles cause the frequency is high like wimax (dont penetrate walls n such). The handheld with the officer needs to hit the car radio, then relayed on to the next repeater be it a cell tower, other cruiser ect. The way I read it was a train reck anywhere rural because of lack of locations for repeaters. But at $2million in it they kinda had to keep going forward to make it work or look like an a$$ for blowing tax payer money. I can still get Chicago pd and kencom for now, the rest are all gone to opensky.