Chicago Area Radio Monitoring Association
The Chicago Area Radio Monitoring Association (CARMA) is a scanner radio club[1][2] in the Chicago metropolitan area. Membership is free and informal; there are no dues or membership certificates. About 1400 people are members of the mailing list or participate in other activities. A large percentage of the participants are public safety officials, dispatchers, radio vendors, service personnel and other professionals. Many are also amateur radio operators ("Hams"), GMRS licensees or members and volunteer contributors of RadioReference.com.[3]
Most operations are handled through a Yahoo Groups list, including emails, files and databases.
CARMA hosts monthly meetings, with Saturday meetings and informal "Friday Nighters" in alternate months.[4]
CARMA produces radio profiles of each county in Illinois, including scanner frequencies and other information for the IL State Police, county Sheriffs departments, local law enforcement agencies and transportation operations. Other extensive profiles of operations like StarCom21, State radio operations, railroads, aviation and other users of two-way radio are also produced.[5]
The CARMA logo contains the Latin phrase: "IN DEO SPERAMUS, CETEROS OMNES OBSERVAMUS", which roughly translates to "IN GOD WE TRUST, ALL OTHERS WE MONITOR".
See also
- Scanner radio
- Illinois
- Chicago
- Cook County, Illinois
References
External links
- Official CARMA Website
- CARMA Facebook page
- CARMA Yahoo Groups Home
- Radio Reference Site
- Listing of scanner clubs
- Video article regarding CARMA and encryption
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