You are absolutley correct. The siren you are seeing is currently retired. You are hearing an STH-10 from about a block away. It is resounding off of the court house building. They hope to relocate and reactivate this siren in Southgate Meadows, our suburb to the south.
1. Not all sirens have motors. Many don't. 2. I never said you were the one who uploaded the video. 3. The video uploader can't edit someone else's comments anyway. (EDIT: Oh, wait, your old comment was made back before YT let us edit them, and even now, can't be edited. So never mind that.)
@@Cnw8701: 1. What we're hearing do sound like 2 mechanical sirens. 2. But that's not because you can hear the motor; it's because mechanical sirens have a certain kind of timbre that a typical electronic siren doesn't have. 3. Thus, we don't actually hear the motors of these sirens. 4. The poster already told us that the set of horns we're looking at isn't a mechanical siren. So I don't know why it's the center of attention in the video's picture. 5. So unless you know alarm models really well by shape, you can't know that what we're looking at is just a diaphone (which is also mechanical, but in a much different way than a mechanical siren is).
A lot of people think we don't even have tornadoes. We are a very large state and most of the tornadoes miss cities. That is probably why you don't hear about many.
Actually, HeavyMetal, MOST sirens--even mechanical ones, ARE electric. But of course the mechanical ones just are not electrONic. There's a difference. Mechanical ones can be electic or fuel-powered (as the Chrysler V8 air-raid siren) or hand-powered or even air-powered (as the HLS--except that I don't know if the HLS is completely pneumatic or just partially, as a mix of air and electricity like with Thunderbolts). (Cont.)
The city Jail sits just below this building, which is the courthouse. The Pine Hills Youth Correctional Facility ( about 2 mi. away) used to have a siren for escapes or levels but have switched to a paging system.
I don't know what it is, it's the only one of its kind in Miles City. I made an appointment with the dean of the Courthouse so I could get some close-ups of it, he never called me back.
On the Pacific coast, most sirens sound a tsunami warning of a prolonged, steady tone. In the Midwest, most (but not all) communities use this for a tornado warning. This comes from the days when a rising-falling siren (attack) was reserved for civil defence use. As in many parts of Europe, the fire signal was traditionally three or four long, slow blasts, but today it can be anything.
This siren is very cool! I have seen a similar siren but it had four components, pointing in the four main cardinal directions. Likewise, it has a high-pitch tone , which sounds very similar to this unit.
The siren you're hearing is an STH-10 that is not visible in the video. In the 1950's, sirens had three signals: "fire," which was usually three long blasts to call volunteers, "alert," which was a 3-5 minute steady blast to warn of an impending attack, and "attack," a 3-5 minute rising-falling signal that an attack (i.e. nuclear missile) was happening. Most Midwestern communities use a steady "alert" tone for tornado warning, as do Pacific coastal communities for a tsunami warning.
So, Robertgift, just like those bigger sirens I mentioned, these have horns that appear as if they could be the INTAKES, while just like those others, you can't really see the OUTLETS, and that might be the case with these, too. As for beat notes, now that's something I'd have to look into further. But notice that sometimes 1 or 2 of these 3 goes or go off into a different kind of signal than 1 or 2 of the others, so then that's a whole different thing than the beat note thing, huh?
(Continued here, HeavyMetal.) And YES, electrONic sirens (meaning sirens without moving parts that make their sound) DO have a wind-down sound, or else they could only be hi-low- or steady-toned. But it seems that most of them don't wind their sound ALL the way down like mechanical sirens do.
Yes, it sure does sound real, not electronic. Wonder if they have some rotating toothed wheel with pick-up which produces electronic impulses which are amplified and drive speakers. I still can't figure this out. Thanks
Foxcloak said, "If it`s old it has to be mechanical." MaxxFordham's response: Oh, really? HOW old? That's a relative term. Just because a siren is old doesn't mean that it's mechanical. I bet ya that they made some electronic sirens a long time ago, too. How long ago? '70s? '60s? I don't know. But true, the older you go, it would make sense that the LESS LIKELY they're electronic. Mike
Naww, police sirens are just electronic rather than mechanical-pneumatic, so while they're loud, they don't have that armor-piercing scream that these sirens that slash up the air that they suck in can have.
These sirens, as most of them, ARE electric. But they might NOT be electrONic. There is a difference. Sirens that aren't electric are either fuel-powered (as with the Chrysler V8 air raid siren) or hand-powered, or perhaps air-powered (maybe like the HLS, but I'm not sure if it's completely pneumatic or just partly). And then those that are electric could either be mechanical or electrONic. (Cont.)
Are we not also hearing other distant sirens in addition to this cluster of three? If their rotor speeds are not identical, they will produce frequencies slightly different from one another. Those frequencies will produce "beat" notes. I don't hear any beat notes here. Also, they appear too small to make the frequencies heard. Very interesting. Thanks.
contact "sirens for cities"--you can find them online. They take old tornado sirens (perfectly functional) and sell them to cities and villages without them at a discount rate.
Hi, Toletman, Yes, I can see from the picture in the alternate-views video that these sirens are independent of each other. But that doesn't change what I was saying that whether or not the sirens are independent they would sound "more normal" (except for the little effect RobertGift was talking about) or if they could have the same RPMs.
Well, Coolgyger, it doesn't HAVE to be electronic, because they could have made an electronic siren that coasts all the way down. But, well, they probably didn't... anyway, the point is that they COULD have. So it doesn't HAVE to be mechanical, but it probably is.
Yes, I hit reply under someone else's reply to a reply, and it gets sent out here to "main," rather than under that reply. And it's been doing that a lot. Hmm... Well, isn't it actually the OUTlets you're looking for? The intakes on mechanical sirens ARE the front part where most of the sound comes out. (Cont.)
man nice sirens they are just doing a test to make sure they are working case of a tornado touches down i love montana thats were i live in great falls mt in cascade couty
(Cont.) But if you're looking for OUTLETS (usually right at the spaces in the stator that are blocked off repeatedly by the rotor), then check out these sirens: You know that the Tempest T135 and Federal Signal one that looks like that and others that look like those are mechanical, and you can't see the OUTLETS of those, either, can you? They look kind-of like jumbo versions of these 3 here, don't they? And even Thunderbolts: where do we see their outlets?
How often do the eastern counties of Montana test their sirens? In Cascade and Lewis and Clark counties, we don't have dependable warning systems for tornadoes, simply because we rarely, if ever, have tornadoes. When I moved to Missouri for school, I learned that they test the storm sirens every month.
I hate it when these responses go into the wrong area, despite my best efforts to respond in the RIGHT area! Oh, by the way, Naruto, just because you can't see an intake doesn't mean there isn't one. Maybe it's on top. This is a response to the following message (cut down to just part): narutodude446 (3 months ago) Show Hide +3 ...There is no intake so it is electronic.
Foxcloak 866 said, "You people forget the motors are independent so they can have the same RPMs and sound normal." MaxxFordham's response: Um, who said that motors of multiple same sirens in the same place had to be independent of each other in order to have the same RPMs and sound normal? Since when was that required? (Cont.)
Hey, Greenday, do you say this "hurry, kids" thing every page or 2? Yeah, it's funny, but does it need to keep popping up from time to time? (BTW, no apostrophe is needed in "kids.")
Sorry this message about wondering why someone would love something that scared them got somewhat duplicated. I wrote it again because it looked like it didn't post the first time. Now I come in and see that they're both there. Hmm, this RUclips forum system is kind-of screwy! They really need to rework it and make it function more cleanly.
1. You could have motors tied together by some mechanical means and they of course could STILL have the same RPMs--but then if the rotors were tied together, they'd probably just need one motor. 2. They could sound normal even if they weren't independent of each other, or if they were. The only difference would probably be the slight variations between each if they were SEPARATE, which Robert Gift mentions (something about a wave beat or something like that).
@Georgia Sirens: Bruh, you can't follow our old conversation well enough to keep track of which devices we were talking about back then. Regardless of what these are that we're looking at, we were also talking about the devices we were hearing but not looking at. I love how you just dumped a bunch of replies and then "liked" them yourself, haha!
@Georgia Sirens: 1. Trolls try picking on something that's totally unrelated to the discussion in a lame attempt to gain "more power." That's very silly of you. 2. You don't understand adults liking cartoon and similar fictional characters, and even dressing up as them, because you live in a cave and under a rock instead of being aware of fan conventions like Comic Con and similar events. _That's_ silly. Try getting out of your cave once in a while. 3. It's also lame that you're still "liking" your own replies. But whatever, keep on doing it, doof.
@Georgia Sirens: Nope! So you're pretty much a dipface? Wow, no wonder why _you're_ actually the one who's so senseless, troll. If you thought you were "correcting" me harassing me for being a fan of a fictional character that's opposite of my sex, then that's a really weird way to attempt it, and you're wrong. So _you_ leave _me_ alone, silly boy.
@Georgia Sirens: Ahh, being a moron because you don't know what truth even is? When did I ever say _anything_ about reporting your comments? I handle truth just fine. Your problem is that regarding anything other than the horns, you did not carry the truth, silly boy. You're the dweeb who can't handle the truth.
@Georgia Sirens: Dude, you're so delusional. Every one of your self-embarrassing replies is still right here. You're just too messed up to notice them. You obviously _can't_ handle the truth or you wouldn't keep posting your silly counterreplies and embarrassing yourself even further.
Are you claiming this is a true rotor-spinning-inside-stator siren? How can three motors spin in exact rpms to create ONE tone? They would slightly differ causing audible "beats". Where are air intakes and stator ports? Sounds like a real siren. Wish video zoomed in and showed other angles.
REPLIES usually appear where they should, other times not. Yes, they are both "sirens", but I consider mechanical "real" sirens and the others electricounterfeits. (Same with pipe organs vs electronic.) Maxx, these are not mechanical sirens are they? If so, where are the air intakes? And how can 3 motors synchronize so well as to not produce "beat notes"? Thanks
@bigskyskywarn are u sure this is a siren and not a horn system? A town near me has something just like this except it has two horns not 3 hand the are horns that would sound like a ship but thev'e been broken for MANY years.
Also, Robertgift, you may consider the mechanical sirens as "the only real ones," and electronic sirens as "counterfeits," but if you were to look in the dictionary or an encyclopedia about sirens, you'd find that they consider both types as REAL--but just different types, and that therefore your consideration isn't accurate.
What's up with these danged responses not going UNDER the response you pressed "Reply" on? That was supposed to go under this one: robertgift (4 months ago) Show Hide 0 Marked as spam Reply | Spam Yes, it sure does sound real, not electronic. Wonder if they have some rotating toothed wheel with pick-up which produces electronic impulses which are amplified and drive speakers. I still can't figure this out. Thanks
When their testing these how do the guys in the control room or whatever know they are actually working? Do they relay on the public to report broken sirens or what?
OMFG if my fire station got a big enough alarm for our siren to ring that many times I would just go the hell home...(JK)! I think after our 20th ring that would indicate that the entire state was on fire...SHEESH!
What do you mean by "it sounds like a real siren"? Yes, this is a mechanical siren, but even electronic sirens are REAL sirens. They're just electronic vs. mechanical.
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Great siren. One of the best I've heard in a long while.
I love how it goes from Attack, right into Alert, then right back to Attack mode with no pause in between.
You are hearing 2 and of 3 Federal Signal STH-10 Tornado Sirens that serve the Miles City Area. The mystery siren shown is dormant.
Thank You! I was actually planning on going up and getting some shot of the siren up close. If I can, I will post some other shots of it.
You are absolutley correct. The siren you are seeing is currently retired. You are hearing an STH-10 from about a block away. It is resounding off of the court house building. They hope to relocate and reactivate this siren in Southgate Meadows, our suburb to the south.
That isn't a mechanical siren. It's a diaphragm.
you are correct. The siren you SEE is not even running.
the sound has always scared the crap out of me. its great :)
The siren shown in the video is actually a set of diaphones!
So then put "siren" in quotes, since this got called a "siren" but you think it isn't one.
How do you believe you can tell for sure?
@@HelloKittyFanMan. There's no motor and I'm not the one who uploaded this video.
1. Not all sirens have motors. Many don't. 2. I never said you were the one who uploaded the video. 3. The video uploader can't edit someone else's comments anyway.
(EDIT: Oh, wait, your old comment was made back before YT let us edit them, and even now, can't be edited. So never mind that.)
@@HelloKittyFanMan. You can clearly hear a motor winding up and down unlike what electronic sirens are known to do.
@@Cnw8701: 1. What we're hearing do sound like 2 mechanical sirens. 2. But that's not because you can hear the motor; it's because mechanical sirens have a certain kind of timbre that a typical electronic siren doesn't have. 3. Thus, we don't actually hear the motors of these sirens. 4. The poster already told us that the set of horns we're looking at isn't a mechanical siren. So I don't know why it's the center of attention in the video's picture. 5. So unless you know alarm models really well by shape, you can't know that what we're looking at is just a diaphone (which is also mechanical, but in a much different way than a mechanical siren is).
A lot of people think we don't even have tornadoes. We are a very large state and most of the tornadoes miss cities. That is probably why you don't hear about many.
Actually, HeavyMetal, MOST sirens--even mechanical ones, ARE electric. But of course the mechanical ones just are not electrONic. There's a difference. Mechanical ones can be electic or fuel-powered (as the Chrysler V8 air-raid siren) or hand-powered or even air-powered (as the HLS--except that I don't know if the HLS is completely pneumatic or just partially, as a mix of air and electricity like with Thunderbolts).
(Cont.)
These are very old. Please note, the other whailing you hear in the background is the South Haynes Siren.
0:10 the miles city STH-10 winding up :D
The city Jail sits just below this building, which is the courthouse. The Pine Hills Youth Correctional Facility ( about 2 mi. away) used to have a siren for escapes or levels but have switched to a paging system.
This is a spring test. Our drill procedure during a tornado warning is to "wind-up and stay-up", which is the middle portion of this test.
I don't know what it is, it's the only one of its kind in Miles City. I made an appointment with the dean of the Courthouse so I could get some close-ups of it, he never called me back.
Thank You!
On the Pacific coast, most sirens sound a tsunami warning of a prolonged, steady tone. In the Midwest, most (but not all) communities use this for a tornado warning. This comes from the days when a rising-falling siren (attack) was reserved for civil defence use. As in many parts of Europe, the fire signal was traditionally three or four long, slow blasts, but today it can be anything.
Due to all the curiousity about this siren, Spring 2008 I will tape it again with a couple angles or something.
This siren is very cool! I have seen a similar siren but it had four components, pointing in the four main cardinal directions. Likewise, it has a high-pitch tone , which sounds very similar to this unit.
@form109 I have no clue what the make is. Ill try to get access to it this summer
Yes, we just arent famous for them because it's so rural many slip by and people don't report them.
The siren you're hearing is an STH-10 that is not visible in the video.
In the 1950's, sirens had three signals: "fire," which was usually three long blasts to call volunteers, "alert," which was a 3-5 minute steady blast to warn of an impending attack, and "attack," a 3-5 minute rising-falling signal that an attack (i.e. nuclear missile) was happening. Most Midwestern communities use a steady "alert" tone for tornado warning, as do Pacific coastal communities for a tsunami warning.
So, Robertgift, just like those bigger sirens I mentioned, these have horns that appear as if they could be the INTAKES, while just like those others, you can't really see the OUTLETS, and that might be the case with these, too.
As for beat notes, now that's something I'd have to look into further. But notice that sometimes 1 or 2 of these 3 goes or go off into a different kind of signal than 1 or 2 of the others, so then that's a whole different thing than the beat note thing, huh?
Hey, you might just not be able to see a motor and intake, but it might still have them.
We have those in our city and a tornado warning was issued 90 minutes ago and I got home at 4:30. Scary crap.
That siren is awesome!
I like this song :)
We have 4 honey, and we are way over due for expansion.
(Continued here, HeavyMetal.)
And YES, electrONic sirens (meaning sirens without moving parts that make their sound) DO have a wind-down sound, or else they could only be hi-low- or steady-toned. But it seems that most of them don't wind their sound ALL the way down like mechanical sirens do.
Yes, it sure does sound real, not electronic.
Wonder if they have some rotating toothed wheel with pick-up which produces electronic impulses which are amplified and drive speakers.
I still can't figure this out.
Thanks
Why would you be cold?
thats a bomb siren
Best one on u tube
Foxcloak said, "If it`s old it has to be mechanical."
MaxxFordham's response:
Oh, really? HOW old? That's a relative term. Just because a siren is old doesn't mean that it's mechanical. I bet ya that they made some electronic sirens a long time ago, too. How long ago? '70s? '60s? I don't know. But true, the older you go, it would make sense that the LESS LIKELY they're electronic.
Mike
I heard when I was a youngster a similar siren on the tall hosetower that summoned the local firefighters. It had 12 horns.
100% agree! They are really annoying and a bit frightening anyway, but we should be lucky to have them!
Naww, police sirens are just electronic rather than mechanical-pneumatic, so while they're loud, they don't have that armor-piercing scream that these sirens that slash up the air that they suck in can have.
These sirens, as most of them, ARE electric. But they might NOT be electrONic. There is a difference. Sirens that aren't electric are either fuel-powered (as with the Chrysler V8 air raid siren) or hand-powered, or perhaps air-powered (maybe like the HLS, but I'm not sure if it's completely pneumatic or just partly). And then those that are electric could either be mechanical or electrONic.
(Cont.)
That is a one of a kind siren. You don't happen to have any more pictures of this unit do you? I've never seen another one like it. Great video!
in oklahoma when the sirens go off they dont do the wind-up wind-down thing they just blare at top volume for ten minutes.
ik just heard that scary sound in my hometown of Murray, Kentucky during the super tuesday tornado outbrake
Are we not also hearing other distant sirens in addition to this cluster of three?
If their rotor speeds are not identical, they will produce frequencies slightly different from one another. Those frequencies will produce "beat" notes. I don't hear any beat notes here.
Also, they appear too small to make the frequencies heard.
Very interesting.
Thanks.
contact "sirens for cities"--you can find them online. They take old tornado sirens (perfectly functional) and sell them to cities and villages without them at a discount rate.
Hi, Toletman,
Yes, I can see from the picture in the alternate-views video that these sirens are independent of each other. But that doesn't change what I was saying that whether or not the sirens are independent they would sound "more normal" (except for the little effect RobertGift was talking about) or if they could have the same RPMs.
Well, Coolgyger, it doesn't HAVE to be electronic, because they could have made an electronic siren that coasts all the way down. But, well, they probably didn't... anyway, the point is that they COULD have. So it doesn't HAVE to be mechanical, but it probably is.
Yes, I hit reply under someone else's reply to a reply, and it gets sent out here to "main," rather than under that reply. And it's been doing that a lot. Hmm...
Well, isn't it actually the OUTlets you're looking for? The intakes on mechanical sirens ARE the front part where most of the sound comes out.
(Cont.)
yea our siren is cool but it goes off a lot so i have a feeling if there was a tornado, assuming we didn't see it, no one would take notice
The siren that is right there isn’t the one going off. The one going off is an sth-10
man nice sirens they are just doing a test to make sure they are working case of a tornado touches down i love montana thats were i live in great falls mt in cascade couty
(Cont.)
But if you're looking for OUTLETS (usually right at the spaces in the stator that are blocked off repeatedly by the rotor), then check out these sirens: You know that the Tempest T135 and Federal Signal one that looks like that and others that look like those are mechanical, and you can't see the OUTLETS of those, either, can you? They look kind-of like jumbo versions of these 3 here, don't they? And even Thunderbolts: where do we see their outlets?
Great idea!
How often do the eastern counties of Montana test their sirens? In Cascade and Lewis and Clark counties, we don't have dependable warning systems for tornadoes, simply because we rarely, if ever, have tornadoes. When I moved to Missouri for school, I learned that they test the storm sirens every month.
I hate it when these responses go into the wrong area, despite my best efforts to respond in the RIGHT area!
Oh, by the way, Naruto, just because you can't see an intake doesn't mean there isn't one. Maybe it's on top.
This is a response to the following message (cut down to just part):
narutodude446 (3 months ago) Show Hide +3 ...There is no intake so it is electronic.
Foxcloak 866 said, "You people forget the motors are independent so they can have the same RPMs and sound normal."
MaxxFordham's response:
Um, who said that motors of multiple same sirens in the same place had to be independent of each other in order to have the same RPMs and sound normal? Since when was that required?
(Cont.)
can you get the recording of the sth-10?
Hey, Greenday, do you say this "hurry, kids" thing every page or 2?
Yeah, it's funny, but does it need to keep popping up from time to time?
(BTW, no apostrophe is needed in "kids.")
are those diaphones?
that does not look like a diaphone
@@tsiren918sirensofoklahomas4 what is it? never seen it sounds similar to an sth-10
@@AAmeriican is a horn
@@AAmeriican It's not even sounding off.
The other "STH-10" is the fire kind?
Get it? No? Yes?
Comment below.
I dont get it
Doesn't sound like this siren is going off. Sounds like an STH-10 somewhere else. But VERY close!
Sorry this message about wondering why someone would love something that scared them got somewhat duplicated. I wrote it again because it looked like it didn't post the first time. Now I come in and see that they're both there. Hmm, this RUclips forum system is kind-of screwy! They really need to rework it and make it function more cleanly.
Hey, Robert,
Maybe so... I don't know. But yeah, you bring up interesting points.
Mike
Looks like three Model D's mounted on a pole.
@ricofojas2011
I agree. These are diaphones, not a siren
There should be a ringtone version of this
it looks like three single tone sirens put on a platform and faced in different directions
that would sound scary at mid-night at Halloween
1. You could have motors tied together by some mechanical means and they of course could STILL have the same RPMs--but then if the rotors were tied together, they'd probably just need one motor.
2. They could sound normal even if they weren't independent of each other, or if they were. The only difference would probably be the slight variations between each if they were SEPARATE, which Robert Gift mentions (something about a wave beat or something like that).
@Georgia Sirens: Bruh, you can't follow our old conversation well enough to keep track of which devices we were talking about back then. Regardless of what these are that we're looking at, we were also talking about the devices we were hearing but not looking at.
I love how you just dumped a bunch of replies and then "liked" them yourself, haha!
@Georgia Sirens: 1. Trolls try picking on something that's totally unrelated to the discussion in a lame attempt to gain "more power." That's very silly of you.
2. You don't understand adults liking cartoon and similar fictional characters, and even dressing up as them, because you live in a cave and under a rock instead of being aware of fan conventions like Comic Con and similar events. _That's_ silly. Try getting out of your cave once in a while.
3. It's also lame that you're still "liking" your own replies. But whatever, keep on doing it, doof.
@Georgia Sirens: Nope! So you're pretty much a dipface? Wow, no wonder why _you're_ actually the one who's so senseless, troll. If you thought you were "correcting" me harassing me for being a fan of a fictional character that's opposite of my sex, then that's a really weird way to attempt it, and you're wrong. So _you_ leave _me_ alone, silly boy.
@Georgia Sirens: Ahh, being a moron because you don't know what truth even is? When did I ever say _anything_ about reporting your comments? I handle truth just fine. Your problem is that regarding anything other than the horns, you did not carry the truth, silly boy. You're the dweeb who can't handle the truth.
@Georgia Sirens: Dude, you're so delusional. Every one of your self-embarrassing replies is still right here. You're just too messed up to notice them. You obviously _can't_ handle the truth or you wouldn't keep posting your silly counterreplies and embarrassing yourself even further.
think to wake upp with that sound and you see your roof been ripping off and it being cold
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Are you claiming this is a true rotor-spinning-inside-stator siren?
How can three motors spin in exact rpms to create ONE tone? They would slightly differ causing audible "beats".
Where are air intakes and stator ports?
Sounds like a real siren.
Wish video zoomed in and showed other angles.
REPLIES usually appear where they should, other times not.
Yes, they are both "sirens", but I consider mechanical "real" sirens and the others electricounterfeits. (Same with pipe organs vs electronic.)
Maxx, these are not mechanical sirens are they? If so, where are the air intakes?
And how can 3 motors synchronize so well as to not produce "beat notes"?
Thanks
thats the same thing i just asked myself as i am watching this. sounds great but questionable.has the mechanical growl,rise and fall,but ...???
Mind you it was in Japan. I wonder if this is a Tokyo Electric or Toshiba siren?
That was a long test! People probably think its the real deal.
Are you saying you don't have sirens in your town or just not these type?
@bigskyskywarn because the temperature changes when a tornado forms, one almost formed almost right on top of my house yesterday
@bigskyskywarn are u sure this is a siren and not a horn system? A town near me has something just like this except it has two horns not 3 hand the are horns that would sound like a ship but thev'e been broken for MANY years.
This has to be mechanical. At the end it coasts like a normal mechanical siren and not cut off like an electronic siren.
This drives my dog crazy! he starts howling! ha ha
Also, Robertgift, you may consider the mechanical sirens as "the only real ones," and electronic sirens as "counterfeits," but if you were to look in the dictionary or an encyclopedia about sirens, you'd find that they consider both types as REAL--but just different types, and that therefore your consideration isn't accurate.
Do they have many tsunamis in Minnesota? There are a lot of lakes there :)
What's up with these danged responses not going UNDER the response you pressed "Reply" on? That was supposed to go under this one:
robertgift (4 months ago) Show Hide 0 Marked as spam Reply | Spam Yes, it sure does sound real, not electronic.
Wonder if they have some rotating toothed wheel with pick-up which produces electronic impulses which are amplified and drive speakers.
I still can't figure this out.
Thanks
Ok I am really confused. Let me get this straght. That siren I am looking at in the video is NOT running am I correct???
what is the siren they use in the alcatraz sound tour thing?
Yeah. ive heard a Tornado Siren where i live. cause we had a tornado befor its louder than you think
What is the point? We have a siren test every Saturday at 12:00 pm in Oklahoma.
@Tabby266 just like denver! lol all the sirens in denver were used for the cold war but now for severe weather
I love this Siren, cause it would scare the crap outta me in RL
When their testing these how do the guys in the control room or whatever know they are actually working? Do they relay on the public to report broken sirens or what?
Thats new, going from attack to alert and back to attack with no windown. Huh, odd.
OMFG if my fire station got a big enough alarm for our siren to ring that many times I would just go the hell home...(JK)!
I think after our 20th ring that would indicate that the entire state was on fire...SHEESH!
Were there NO electronic OLD sirens? Come on. But yeah, I bet this one is mechanical.
@1:18
me:please tell me its over
Siren:WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
me: Oh god not again
1:18
@brovobasher
Thats something that you probably shouldn't be joking about.
@brovobasher its a spring test. (:
How far away can you hear this siren?
What do you mean by "it sounds like a real siren"? Yes, this is a mechanical siren, but even electronic sirens are REAL sirens. They're just electronic vs. mechanical.
OK! THE DAMN THING WORKS! SHUT IT OFF!!