Secure Information
Remember, monitoring Cell Phone frequencies is illegal and listening to private communications of law enforcement MAY NOT be in your best interest!
153.785	? [Tac Channel]					100.0pL	heard Edw not EA FD	10/12/01
Coles County Sheriff's Department
A "Private Call/Detective" Channel is Explained below. POLICE PRIVY (Sheriff "Channel 2"/ "Detective Channel") (All police agencies in Coles Co. use it)-- 800 mHz SMR out of Paris Illinois---analog, with narcs usually encrypted, over 70 other users on system. I've heard a buzzing sound, (much like an airplane engine) on 858.7875 nearly every time the encrypted talkgroups are activated on the 856.9125 control channel.  This leads me to believe that the Sheriff/Drug Task Froce input is actually 858.7875, not another frequency band.  The "Clear Talk" station licenses it as a repeater, but is probably also a base/mobile simplex for the police.  I hear the clear base station periodically, as well as some distant signals (probably the police mobile radios) replying to it, and all transmitting that same "buzz"noise.  I don't know why the police link into the trunked system in the first place, though, because they only really need that one frequency for "private call." Coles County Sheriff uses Kenwood portables.  Kenwood makes trunked/conventional radios in one, so the radios may have a trunked channel for "detective"/task force/"channel 2", in addition to all the conventional sheriff ones.  Portables, especially 800 mHz, are difficult to receive, and could be another reason why I don't hear an input when the digital talkgroup on Clear Talk keys up.
156.15	[Tac/Detectives]	PW	[no lic]		[]		licensed to Douglas County	6/25/02
159.21	[Detectives] No longer used	PW	[no lic]		[]		licensed to Cumberland County	7/3/02 11/8/02
158.775	Granite City Police [Tac Channel]	PW	no License					10/2/01
East Central Illinois Drug Task Force (ECIDTF)
It's composed of Coles County Sheriff, Mattoon, Charleston, and EIU police Dept's, Arcola Police, and Moultrie and Shelby County Sheriffs and 2 State Cops.
Secure Frequencies - and use of  NEXTEL phones/radios Frequencies not listed due to nature of use. 11/15/02
MEGSI - Metropolitan Enforcement Group Of Southern IL  (Undercover NARCOTICS TASK FORCE)
155.37 155.43	Metropolitan Enforcement Group Wood River	PP	WRA547 Expired	1 1	15		unknown agency (155.43 is now E Alton)	2/1/01
Pontoon Beach
155.57	[Tac Channel]	PW	no license			no pl	info obtained by other Heard in Granite City 11/01	10/3/01