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But I'm in Illinois, how will Colorado help me? ;) Stan

I was considering signing up for one of the incident paging networks such as IPN or CIFN. I'd like to find the one that covers IL (mainly Central IL). Can anyone make any first-hand recommendations on this? Thanks! Stan, K9SWX

I got to try out the WX alert feature last night on my new BC246T. However, after the warning message was over, the alert did not shut off automatically. My SAME wx alert radio automatically shuts off at the end of a warning. I'm not sure if the 246T is setup to do this or not. Any thoughts...

So what if I cheat and use a stereo to mono adapter? :) Stan

I tested my BC246T this weekend in the car for the first time. I tried it on my little RS speaker which worked great on the old BCT8, but did not do very well on the BC246T. So I too am in the market for a better speaker for this lovely scanner. Anxious to hear all of the thoughts on this...

Does anyone have a list of Illinois ESDA/Skywarn frequencies sorted by city and/or county? It's rather painful to go through each county and dig out the freqs that way. Thanks! Stan

Thanks for the freqs. I take it that I should indeed enter all of those freqs into the scanner then? (which I did last night, but was just curious if it was overkill to put all of them in) Thanks again! Stan

Yeah, we have a very small airport here in town. I just like hearing all the planes passing through the area that are going to the bigger cities. Thanks for the info, I will post over in the IL forum. Stan, K9SWX

I'm new to the ARTCC monitoring scene, so please pardon my ignorance. I'm wanting to monitor the Chicago/KC/Indy ARTCC frequencies, but not sure which ones to program into my scanner. I found the list of them on here as well as several other sites, but is it overkill to program them all in? I've...

I'm new to the ARTCC monitoring scene, so please pardon my ignorance. I'm wanting to monitor the Chicago/KC/Indy ARTCC frequencies, but not sure which ones to program into my scanner. I found the list of them on here as well as several other sites, but is it overkill to program them all in? I've...

If I don't sell them by this weekend, I will experiment with them. I've got them up for sale on several sites (including this one), so we'll see what happens. Thanks! Stan

Ok, well I guess I didn't read it right. The '101 Rising' selection is the Champaign one. I programmed it in and already getting some chatter this evening. I picked up several talkgroups that weren't listed on the site: 6000 6096 Both seemed to be field ops, but they didn't talk long enough to...

I noticed on the AmerenIP page for Illinois that it has a talkgroup for Champaign listed, but there's no frequencies listed for Champaign. I'm a bit confused on how this is possible. Would I just program in all of the control channels in my BC246T, or is there one specifically for Champaign...

Well after hearing the wonderful reviews of the BC246T, I decided to get one. I was going to order one online, but then I found out that a ham dealer would be at an area hamfest this past Sunday. I was so excited that I emailed the dealer to assure myself that they would be bringing some...

Thanks for the detailed review and comparison. How is the sensitivity of the 246 vs the old 245? (I know you haven't turned the '5' on since you got the '6', but I'm sure you've compared them just a tad!) ;) This sounds like a winner to me, I just need to get the BCT8 and BC245 up for sale and...

My 245XLT has a battery pack in it that I picked up from Lee's Electronics, lasts quite awhile. However, I can't just stick the 245 in my pocket and go like you can with your 246T. Everyone seems to talk about the 246T's unique programming and that sounds very interesting to me. I've been used...

Thanks for the link to that site, looks pretty nifty! I'm looking for some first hand reviews of these side-by-side. There's a few scattered in the 35 page BC246T thread saying stuff like 'since i bought my 246, I haven't picked up my 245xlt'. That's cool, but I just want to know why. ;) Thanks...

I currently have a BC245XLT and BC8T, but I was considering selling them both to purchase a 246T. Besides the obvious advantages of tons more memory channels, alpha tagging, and the RF CloseCall feature, what other advantages or disadvantages would there be of 'upgrading' to the 246T? Has anyone...

246T vs 245XLT/BC8T I currently have a BC245XLT and BC8T, but I was considering selling them both to purchase a 246T. Besides the obvious advantages of tons more memory channels, alpha tagging, and the RF CloseCall feature, what other advantages or disadvantages would there be of 'upgrading' to...

Rich, Thanks for the file on Champaign County. It's nice to see people working together on this stuff to make it as good as possible. Now if I can just figure out how to program my scanner to pick up the trunked system(s) in the area, I'll be good to go. (you would think with the public works...