Chicago Area Radio Monitoring Association
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The Chicago Area Radio Monitoring Association (CARMA) is a scanner radio club in the Chicago Illinois area. With about 1400 members, it is one of the largest scanner clubs in the USA. Membership is free and unofficial, there are no dues or membership certificates. A large percentage of the membership are public safety officials, dispatchers, radio venders and service personnel and other professionals. Many members are also amateur radio operators ("Hams") or GMRS licenses.
Most membership operations are handled through a Yahoo Groups list, including emails, files and databases.
CARMA hosts monthly meetings, with Saturday meetings and informal "Friday Nighter" get-togethers in alternate months.
CARMA hosts a website at http://www.carmachicago.com. Information on membership and meeting locations is posted here.
CARMA produces radio Profiles of each county in Illinois, including scanner frequencies and other information for the Sheriff's, local 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. All Profiles are provided free of charge in PDF format at http://www.carmachicago.com/profiles.
