Chicago Fire Scanner

OpenMHz was back in service  after an outage at 8:17 p.m. on Friday, December 23, 2022. Archived records before 8:17 p.m. remained logged, but were not re-connected to any audio. The outage may have been caused by an SSL issue with a third-party service, but this was not confirmed.

SUN DEC 18 2022 -- OpenMhz.com, beginning around Friday, December 16, 2022 has had a technical problem that skips through each audio segment and plays no audio.  The website is logging audio entries, but not playing audio. The malfunction is a reproducible error on Google Chrome, Safari, and iOS. The error might be caused by an SSL issue affecting a third-party host that servers audio files.

Sunday morning August 7, 2022 the CFD Talkgroups for Chicago Fire Department  OEMC (800 MHz) were noticed on OpenMHz. The start date for the 800 MHz monitoring on OpenMHz was not initially known. openmhz.com/system/chi_oemc  (800 MHz)*** ***NOTE: CFD has had trouble with the 400 MHz system, and has frequently switch to the 800 MHz system.

During mid-June 2022, Chicago Fire Department radio calls were switched to the 800 MHz talkgroups that are also available to Chicago Fire Department operations. The reason for the switch was possibly due to atmospheric conditions that were causing interference on the UHF 400 MHz frequencies. Degradation to reception was also observed on public safety scanning radios in Arlington Heights with increased difficulty understanding radio messages. Eric Tendian added the 800 MHz talkgroups to his live feeds available on his YouTube channel ...  https://www.youtube.com/c/EricTendian On Tuesday, June 21, 2022, Chicago Fire Department was observed operating on the UHF frequencies. See also ... ChicagoFireScanner | CFD

An encrypted frequency or talk group or other interference was removed from the Lake County OpenMHz section ... OpenMHz LAKE COUNTY AREA [ openmhz.com/system/lakeilfire ] Broadcastify ... The problem was an issue with a local application of the service and was not an issue with the OpenMHz system.

A page for Champaign County was added today, Saturday, September 25, 2021, that featured OpenMHz TalkGroups for  METCAD - Champaign County, IL. The OpenMHz feed features TalkGroups from law enforcement, fire dispatch and ambulance dispatch covering Champaign County. The area covers Champaign, Urbana, University of Illinois, Rantoul and more. The page also features specific links that go directly to FIRE or EMS related TalkGroups. The page can be reached at ... champaign.chicagofirescanner.com   or  https://www.chicagofirescanner.com/p/champaign.html

Chicago Fire Department's radio system appeared on OpenMHz.com, possibly during the last week of 2018. The Chicago Fire Department P25 system includes filters for Group Names ... Fire (Main and North) EMS (Main and North) CFD North CFD South Talkgroup filters provide about the same functionality compared to Group Names, except allow the separation of EMS Main (North) and EMS Englewood (South). The source and location of the radio monitoring facility was initially anonymous. The url for the Chicago Fire Department radio site is ... openmhz.com/system/chi_cfd OpenMHz utilizes a Software Defined Radio (SDR) that is combined with a computer, and allows the recording of multiple talkgroups simultaneously, and then archives each radio message -- logging the date, times and duration of the messages. OpenMHz audio can be monitored live or can be monitored historically by listening to a specific message or playback a historical period. OpenMHz initially provides a 5-day archi...