Is majority of the ISP districts phase 1 still and if phase 2 what districts?
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I feel your pain. I recently retired from Scott AFB after 30 years and my plan is to sell my house this spring and move out of Illinois as well. Although mobile use of scanners is illegal in many states, most have exceptions for those that possess a ham radio license. Cops are too busy to search cars, so as long as you drive safely, don't show up at crime scenes, and make a little effort to hide your scanner then you shouldn't have any issues.Seven and a half years until retirement and I'm outta this state. I'll set up my radios elsewhere. My wife's daughters live in IN so I guess I'll become a Hoosier, although I hear scanners are kind of verboten there.
I kind of see this hobby dying in a few years due to more public safety using encryption, which is probably what the Dept of Homeland Security wants them to do. I haven't used any of my actual scanners in years due to multicast distortion. Instead, I got OP-25 working on a low-cost laptop that works perfectly. If everything goes encrypted then I can just reload Windows on the laptop and use it as a normal computer again without much loss. My concern right now is that the area I intend to move to after I retire has an older P-25 system in the city, but the county just applied for a grant for a new P-25 system. Most law enforcement in the area I'm moving to have turned on encryption after upgrading their systems and I'm afraid this one will be no different.You must be in St. Crook Co. I live in Monroe and the MoCo SD has added one encrypted TGID here. It shows up on my scanner but can't hear anything. If they keep encrypting stuff or keep changing radio systems, these pricy scanners I have will be my last. I guess I'll just listen to MilAir and HF air if nothing else.
It's not Island ..It's IWIN Illinois Wireless Information NetworkDispatchers and officer patrol cars are all connected via an instant messenger, police specific data bases to share information ie mug shots, criminal reports, crash reports etc. You might hear officers call the laptops "island" "send the information to my island"