2024 Democratic National Convention 8/19-8/22

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The racetrack pattern contrails from the tanker were visible in the sky a bit ago. Reminiscent of the post 9/11 days over Chicago.
 

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VP Friday schedule...

At 3:00 PM CT, the Vice President and the Second Gentleman will depart Soldier Field Landing Zone en route to Chicago O’Hare International Airport.
At 3:15 PM CT, the Vice President and the Second Gentleman will arrive at Chicago O’Hare International Airport.
At 3:30 PM CT, the Vice President and the Second Gentleman will depart Chicago, IL en route to Washington, DC.
 

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I'm assuming CFD is Chicago fire dept.
Maybe @werinshades could answer that for us
It was only used during the DNC, never to be used again by CFD. It was one of the two CFD EMS Command Posts and those radio signatures were chosen by the request of the 3 letter government agencies and as mentioned CFD doesn't use 4200/4300.

CFD was only allowed to work the "footprint" as contract EMS worked the inside of the two locations mentioned. CFD acts as "support" on large-scale events as private providers work the inside and can respond inside per request. City-sponsored events (not private entities like Bank of America Chicago Marathon), require CFD to be the primary EMS provider. To sum it up, it was a labor dispute awhile ago which we were successful.

As expected, most activity was encrypted. Event-1 through Event-3 (C-11 though C-13 on the radios) was the primary channels CPD was using. Some of the 7013-7023 talk groups were only set up for the DNC and once all the radios are returned, will probably not ever be used again.
 

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173.875 (NAC 1D3) ENC - Intermittent traffic, listed in Radio Reference database as US Capitol Police Travel Channel 3 (repeater output).
At least in Washington this is the freq for Pelosi's detail.
 
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