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Aurora/Naperville OpenSky System
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AFAIK, not all of the DEDIRS (DuPage Emergency Dispatch Interoperable Radio System, aka DuPage SC21 talkgroups) were built out. The Naperville FD patches were only completed a year or two ago, and I don't ever remember hearing activity on DEDIRS patch talkgroups originally set aside for Naperville PD, NWCD Police, Will County, Aurora or Elgin. I believe that some of these patch talkgroup may have even been repurposed.
officerdave
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Kevin You are correct DEDIRS now has 8 talk-groups for interops with outside DEDIRS agencies. Our application for use of those is still sitting on my desk.
Aurora & Naperville recently renewed their licences through 2030 and it shows the OpenSky emission for all frequencies. I wouldn't get my hopes up for a P25 system in the future, but then again, a lot can happen in 10 years.
FCC Callsign WQMN589 (AURORA, CITY OF)
FCC Callsign WQMN589 (AURORA, CITY OF)
www.radioreference.com
FCC Callsign WQMN775 (City of Naperville)
FCC Callsign WQMN775 (City of Naperville)
www.radioreference.com
Doing a modification to add or change emissions is very easy to do. They don’t need to wait 10 years for that to happen, IF that’s what they are going to do. They could always go the Starcom route too.... time will tellAurora & Naperville recently renewed their licences through 2030 and it shows the OpenSky emission for all frequencies. I wouldn't get my hopes up for a P25 system in the future, but then again, a lot can happen in 10 years.
FCC Callsign WQMN589 (AURORA, CITY OF)
FCC Callsign WQMN589 (AURORA, CITY OF)www.radioreference.com
FCC Callsign WQMN775 (City of Naperville)
FCC Callsign WQMN775 (City of Naperville)www.radioreference.com
It's better to have the freq's locked up and then change the emissions later..
officerdave
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Time will tell. It just is a matter of funding . Do not expect a forklift upgrade to the current system.
Aurora has permanent patches from the OpenSky system to IFERN, IFERN2 and various other VHF/UHF/800 interop frequencies.
The police side often patches with ITTF REG 3B. During the protests, Aurora PD had active OpenSky-STARCOM patches on ITTF RGB 2A, 3B and 9B.
apco25
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Aurora-Naperville will come down to when L3Harris decides to no longer support OpensSky and they will then force a migration. It's a OLD system designed by computer nerds for Fedex. It was never meant to be a voice system and while it has been greatly improved over the years it's a oddball product and one that Harris never actually wanted in their portfolio of products. They got stuck with it as the original system was bid by M/A-COM.
apco25
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There is no site in Chicago. Looks like there is an error in the FCC ULS when this frequency was obtained by Naperville, if it all. Ive submitted to teh DB to correct this as well as the incorrect county for the sites in Naperville. Those are all in DuPage County.
Naperville has a statewide TG on Starcom21 for such uses.
officerdave
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Ive submitted to teh DB to correct this as well as the incorrect county for the sites in Naperville. Those are all in DuPage County.
Naperville has a statewide TG on Starcom21 for such uses.
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Do you mean there are no OPEN SKY sites in the Will County side of Naperville?
Naperville has a statewide TG on Starcom21 for such uses.
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Do you mean there are no OPEN SKY sites in the Will County side of Naperville?
apco25
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DB is correct with Kane, Dupage and Will County sites.
@officerdave was just wondering if that always active patch on Will Co esda to Naperville fire department is still working, just recently upgraded my antenna can flawlessly here DuPage County and Will County but i don't here any activity on that patch is it still active
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officerdave
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Not sure I do not know of the Will County ESDA Patch ..... WESCOM has one for FIre , that is only used on request from both agencies as I understand.
This is under the will county edacs analog trunk system. Tried putting it in nothing went through. Guessing it's dead 🤷♂️
The edacs system is pretty much depreciated, The Will County P25 Atlas system has since replaced it. I would imagine that patch has been removed for quite some time. Your not going to hear the SC21 Naperville FD Dispatch or Fireground patch unless a SC21 radio affiliates with that specific talkgroup. Warrenville, LWFD, DG and Plainfield would be your best bet for towns that would enable the patch when running auto or mutual aid.
If your really lucky, a Naperville FD officer will enable the patch themselves by switching their portable to the SC21. Over the past year or so every officer was issued a SC21 capable portable. SC21 has been used during OpenSky scheduled maintenance and outages
If your really lucky, a Naperville FD officer will enable the patch themselves by switching their portable to the SC21. Over the past year or so every officer was issued a SC21 capable portable. SC21 has been used during OpenSky scheduled maintenance and outages
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I think aurora used a ITTF TG last time there system was being repaired 30XXX
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