Delay

[calgirl2016]

Hi guys - I have been searching for a couple weeks online for an answer to a question, and I finally decided to join the group and post it here....I'm willing to bet that someone here will have an answer.

Am I crazy or is there a delay of many hours in the Chicago feed? I have listened to broadcastify and radioreference in my area for a really long time. And finally I started to listen to the same feed so many others do - the Chicago feed, since it seems there is so much going on late at night - when I am wide awake.

But when I listen, I hear the dispatchers and officers say good morning, when it is evening and they want to head to lunch when it is night. I listen online using windows media player, or I listen with the app on an andriod, and occasionally on an iPad.

Can anyone explain to me if it is a delay of hours for safety or is there something else going on from my end.

Thanks in advance!

 

[marcinek]

Hi. If you are on a watch from 3 pm to 11 pm, or 11 pm to 8 am, when you are going for "lunch" is not noonish. Your mid "day" meal might be at 3 am.

I think that is what you are hearing. Crazy hours.

 

[calgirl2016]

Thanks for the reply..!

I kind of guessed that - might - be what is going on....I know someone that works those night hours that you mentioned and she does call the meal she eats at 2am "lunch".

But I've heard the dispatcher say - good morning so and so, and everyone else says good morning in reply, when it is early evening.

Now I am very curious.

 

[mmckenna]

Our officers/dispatchers do that. Since the shifts are regular and some guys work nights, it's very common for them to greet them with "good morning" when the come on at 5pm.

In other words, the dispatchers know.... It's sort of a joke, but it's been going on for so long that I doubt most of them really even think about what they are saying.

 

[calgirl2016]

Our officers/dispatchers do that. Since the shifts are regular and some guys work nights, it's very common for them to greet them with "good morning" when the come on at 5pm.

In other words, the dispatchers know.... It's sort of a joke, but it's been going on for so long that I doubt most of them really even think about what they are saying.

Ok thank you. Now I don't feel like I am in the twilight zone as badly!

 

[wtp]

here

the shifts are 12 hours.

 

[marcinek]

Our officers/dispatchers do that. Since the shifts are regular and some guys work nights, it's very common for them to greet them with "good morning" when the come on at 5pm.

In other words, the dispatchers know.... It's sort of a joke, but it's been going on for so long that I doubt most of them really even think about what they are saying.

Yes. There is quite a bit of joking going around with CPD on the scanner. Sometimes its hard to pick up on when they are joking around and when they are serious.

I am particularly fond their use of the of the term "sidewalk inspectors" for the drunken/passed out folks after Cubs' games.

 

[calgirl2016]

Yes. There is quite a bit of joking going around with CPD on the scanner. Sometimes its hard to pick up on when they are joking around and when they are serious.

I am particularly fond their use of the of the term "sidewalk inspectors" for the drunken/passed out folks after Cubs' games.

That is funny, I haven't heard the "sidewalk inspector" yet. I am surprised at how, relaxed or casual the Chicago dispatchers and officers are, mostly in the past I have just listened to California - until I came across broadcastify/radio reference.

Just a few weeks ago, I heard a "disagreement" on the feed between a female dispatcher and female officer. That was such an eyeopener. It went something along the lines of - the dispatcher told the officer what "job" they were to head to, the female officer in replay said something like - well, we don't do that so stop taking calls from people for it ( I think it was parking or something like that) and the dispatcher said politely, the caller was notified, however this is where you are supposed head over to (I don't remember exactly since it was late, but I think it was because they actually had free time), and the officer got "snippy" with the dispatcher saying something like, well someone needs more training, or something along the lines of a jab at the dispatcher. And another male officer actually broke in during the back and forth between the two women and said - I hope officer so and so isn't within reaching distance of you, he laughed, then the dispatcher said something back like, yea she is lucky too - and the officer said something snippy back and the dispatcher actually told the officer to shut up!

The entire exchange was surprising, because I could tell they were not joking and neither were about to back down. The officer seemed actually irritated that she had to do something she didn't want to - and the dispatcher was trying to just do her job. I bet the next officer meeting or dispatcher meeting was pretty interesting when they were discussing the previous events haha.