Naperville, IL - New Police Radio System Goes Live Today

[Thunderbolt]

NAPERVILLE, Ill. -- Police scanners in Naperville will be silent today, as the Naperville Police Department's state-of-the-art emergency radio system goes live.

New Police Radio System Goes Live Today - Naperville, IL Patch

 

[ilgrant]

All is quiet in scannerland on the old Motorola Naperville and Aurora trunked systems for the most part. Couple of keyups and a fire department looking for a radio check.

 

[FFPM571]

As of last night NFD was still on the old system. They said that at shift change in the morning they were doing the changeover.

 

[Dafydd]

This is why I never set up a feed to monitor Naperville PD/FD/etc. I knew the day was not far off when my feed would become obsolete.

 

[jamesa53]

This sucks. No wonder why property taxes in DuPage county are astronomical.

 

[RoninJoliet]

100mil for the new Aurora PD, 14mil for the new Radio system, and 8 policeman being laid off in Aurora and 6 layed off in Naperville, someone has to pay the piper!!!

 

[jobes]

Hey progress huh. Just love it

100mil for the new Aurora PD, 14mil for the new Radio system, and 8 policeman being laid off in Aurora and 6 layed off in Naperville, someone has to pay the piper!!!

 

[kb2vxa]

"The better coverage is really our main concern," Bell said. "But what we'll have is an encrypted channel that can't be scanned."

The can of worms is open, grab your forks and dig in!

Joseph Shaboinger
1:24am on Thursday, December 2, 2010
"I've heard from incidents in the past that fiber optic rings can and do get severed. How vulnerable is the city now to people doing simple digging/excavating without really paying too much attention to things already in the ground?"

Ah, he beat me to it.

 

[ilgrant]

They do have contingencies. For example, if Aurora goes down then they can use Naperville's system and vice-versa.

I believe there is also microwave backup.

 

[neondesert]

I believe there is also microwave backup.

And if that doesn't work they can always use it to cook dinner!

On second thought maybe not, they probably would need special OpenSky microwave training!

 

[brodie4416]

Is there no hope to scan these channels without an encryption key? How long until everyone is doing this and radio scanning is obsolete?