How to Listing To Elmhurst Police

[paulsen14]

Hi there - sorry, but I'm completely new to this scanning community. I currently do not even own a scanning device. I just want to be able to listen to Elmhurst Police somehow on-line using broadcastify.com or similar service. Is that possible? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

paulsen14

 

[JD21960]

Elmhurst IL PD doesn't have a feed on Broadcastify it seems. Only FIRE is on there and the other things listed in the area on that site.

 

[ILjim]

Sorry, but there isn't a feed online for Elmhurst Police, only Fire/EMS as Johnny stated. There aren't many feeds for Law Dispatch in DuPage Co. The only ones I've seen are DU-COMM 1 East (Lombard/Villa Park) and ACDC Police 2 (Bensenville/Itasca/Wood Dale). Recently, this "feed" (https://openmhz.com/se_dupage) was added which has DuPage Co Sheriff and other agencies in the southern part of the county. Other than that, your only option is to spend $500 on a P25 scanner or a Unication pager, since it is a P25 simulcast system.

 

[box23]

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Other than that, your only option is to spend $500 on a P25 scanner or a Unication pager, since it is a P25 simulcast system.

Or, you know, a $20 SDR and a $35 Raspberry Pi, which will far exceed the scanner's poor performance/design.

 

[ILjim]

My apologies, I completely forgot about SDR. It's a great, inexpensive option if you're mainly going to scan/listen at home and have an existing computer. While it isn't the easiest thing to set up, with some help here in the Forums and various websites, you'll be up and running before you know it.