For 20 million dollars, the people who have to live in the City of Chicago just got ripped off, as did the EMS responders who became the guinea pigs for this system. The audio is overmodulated, and you can hear really severe digital pixelization in the voices. It's comparable to that moment when a digital TV freezes up, only the audio doesn't freeze, it just pixelizes and they sound like robots.
Read about the system here via CBS Chicago
Listen to the CFD Digital UHF feed here
Quote from CBS:
"The switchover from analog to digital radios began Sunday at 8 a.m., with EMS paramedics getting the new radios. Motorola got the no-bid contract in 2006, but tests of the digital system showed garbled transmissions and dead zones"
Public safety crews who have already experienced digital radio systems such as P25 and Opensky across the nation state that the radios are not reliable, and that the audio processor in these radios do not fare well in loud emergency environments such as fire and accident scenes.
The new Chicago Fire Department P25 system has encryption enabled for administrative and other sensitive radio transmissions. All other traffic is in the clear so far.
Shortwave America will be speaking with Larry Langford, the Chicago Fire Department Media Affairs Director, a former licensed amateur radio operator who says he is considering becoming licensed again. That talk will be on one of the Shortwave America shows coming soon.
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Monday, April 16, 2012
Monday, July 11, 2011
Saluting Marciea Adkins - Chicago 911 Police Dispatcher
Marciea Adkins is correctly being remembered as a caring, positive person who loved her city and her job as a Chicago Office Of Emergency Management and Communications 911 Police Radio Dispatcher. Police are remembering her as the voice link that has helped keep them safe on the streets with expert radio communications skills and fast thinking.
A 16 year old accused subject being charged as an adult with 1st degree murder, one felony count of burglary, a misdemeanor of driving under the influence, police said, is in custody after fleeing police after they stopped him for running a red light. At that time, the accused then backed up into a police Sgt.'s vehicle at the traffic stop scene and fled in the stolen Range Rover. "Police had tried to pull over the stolen sport-utility vehicle at Elston Avenue and Blackhawk Street" per Chicago's ABC 7's news report.
The ABC 7 news report goes on to say that "The SUV ran a stop sign while driving north on Hoyne, then struck Adkins’ car, which was headed west on Armitage. The SUV then hit a parked car and the driver fled the scene on foot, but was arrested a short time later."
ABC 7 News Video HERE
Other news coverage can be seen at the Second City 911 blog
Marci's remains were escorted by a team of Chicago Emergency Responders from both the Chicago Fire Department and Chicago Police Department from Illinois Masonic Hospital on the city's North Side to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office. Marci was a mother of a young child and a wife of a Chicago Fire Department Dispatcher.
Chicago Police are so far refusing to release the defendant's name although he is charged as an adult and Illinois law provides for the names of accused adults to be publicly released. In the video, you will see the defendant on a CFD ambulance gurney from the side view.
Marci, thank you for your service to your city! Thank you for being the voice of Chicago residents and police on the zones. You lived well and you finished well, Marci. Rest in peace! Shortwave America leaves deep condolences to Marci's family and especially her husband and young child who has had her mother unjustifiably taken from her by a remorseless, cold blooded, monster.
***UPDATE*** 11:50AM CDT: Chicago Police have released the name of the offender. He is now identified as Marquis Harrison, of the 200 block of South Lotus Avenue
A 16 year old accused subject being charged as an adult with 1st degree murder, one felony count of burglary, a misdemeanor of driving under the influence, police said, is in custody after fleeing police after they stopped him for running a red light. At that time, the accused then backed up into a police Sgt.'s vehicle at the traffic stop scene and fled in the stolen Range Rover. "Police had tried to pull over the stolen sport-utility vehicle at Elston Avenue and Blackhawk Street" per Chicago's ABC 7's news report.
The ABC 7 news report goes on to say that "The SUV ran a stop sign while driving north on Hoyne, then struck Adkins’ car, which was headed west on Armitage. The SUV then hit a parked car and the driver fled the scene on foot, but was arrested a short time later."
ABC 7 News Video HERE
Other news coverage can be seen at the Second City 911 blog
Marci's remains were escorted by a team of Chicago Emergency Responders from both the Chicago Fire Department and Chicago Police Department from Illinois Masonic Hospital on the city's North Side to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office. Marci was a mother of a young child and a wife of a Chicago Fire Department Dispatcher.
Chicago Police are so far refusing to release the defendant's name although he is charged as an adult and Illinois law provides for the names of accused adults to be publicly released. In the video, you will see the defendant on a CFD ambulance gurney from the side view.
Marci, thank you for your service to your city! Thank you for being the voice of Chicago residents and police on the zones. You lived well and you finished well, Marci. Rest in peace! Shortwave America leaves deep condolences to Marci's family and especially her husband and young child who has had her mother unjustifiably taken from her by a remorseless, cold blooded, monster.
***UPDATE*** 11:50AM CDT: Chicago Police have released the name of the offender. He is now identified as Marquis Harrison, of the 200 block of South Lotus Avenue
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