With headphones on, i think i can faintly hear the rotator, but oviously, this is one of my most favorite vids, i always go back to this video once in awhile.
thats awesome!!! may not have the power of a mechanical system... none the less, its solar powered and can relay voice and messages... I love the sound of the dialtones announced and echoed back!!! SIIICKKK!
The dial tones are DTMF tones, its the radio activation from the tadio tower for the sirens, every time theres a new action that is needed, the DTMF tones are sent, in this case voice 4 times then wail. So theres somehow an automated system or just a station where they set them off. It depends.
Colorado seems to have some of the oldest WPS 3000s around. Boulder, Aurora, and Lakewood have/had some of the oldest, best operating WS3016/Analog 864 combos I've ever heard.
@@Trackpaddin Gen IIs are 3000s that have been made in 1982 to 1984. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lsUWsLzv44o.html This one’s a good example, uses its original pre-864 controller. Skip to 6:06. Gen II rotators are more slim and are a bit weaker than the Gen III rotators and tend to break. Whelen WS-2000Rs use Gen II rotators too, but most 2000R units use collector rings and don’t rotate in a oscillating pattern. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Jl7eSEvSGlc.html This unit is a Gen 1. These were made in 1981 only and not many have been built with this early type of rotator. Some units such as Idaho Falls, ID would have a broken rotator. This was Whelens Earliest design in Rotators for their sirens. The unit in the link above is Lake Lafayette. A unit which was donated to the small town in 2007 by the Eagle Scouts if i’m correct. As for Gen III rotators, Gen III WPS-3000s shared its rotator with the WPS-4008 and the WPS-4004. Whelen still uses this rotator on 4004s but I’m not sure if it’s been given slight redesigns or facelifts. The WS prefix belongs to all Whelen models that were made before 1987. All whelen models such as the Gen III 3000, 4008, and 4004 use the WPS prefix. That’s pretty much all I know, it’s a very lengthy comment lmao
@ferrari368 If im not mistaken, the solar panels are just for power and to recharge the batterys. So basically if it was cloudy for about a week, and a tornado comes, it might be able to get something out, but i dont know if it would recieve some power from the days the clouds were there. But its a possibility though.
Man... takes me back to growing up in Denver, listening to those things go off. Scared the poops out of me first time heard it! After that I thought it was kinda eerie and cool.
It sounds like you have a radio scanner with you, tuned to the same frequency as the siren, when the DTMF tones are transmitted it sounds like I can hear them from your scanner's speaker, but when the voice announcements are played do they also come through on your scanner?
@atomicnortherner not possible, as these sirens are activated on a different channel on the CB system that the police dept uses. you can pick up activation tones on a police scanner.
not exactly. Those are DTMF's they are sent to the reciver and it decodes them to check if the sirens ok like telling the person if one of the speaker divers is out broken rotator etc.. and it is for commands.
Ah it echos like at a football game, I have long thought about what if there was a siren that talked with a booming voice like the guy on the wizard of oz and shouted out warnings, or fire calls really echoing. well this is one of them.
i like the sirens escpecialy the echo. in the netherlands we only have sirens for industrial accidents(gas-clouds) and big fires - never a siren for storms (even when a tornado is possible)
Like da- I am talking about is the talking sirens being a waste of money, not it being solar powered . Ture warning sirens are always going to be needed like the Thunderbolts.. NOT the fake ones like this one!
@Ron Bergren okay thanks, too bad it isn't in Ohio, I would have loved to see it in person for a test, do they still have that siren there or has it been replaced?
Just curious, is this siren 100% solar powered (Not connected to AC whatsoever)? Or does it just use the solar power to help keep the battery backup charged?
The awkward moment when there's a real tornado warning but they accidental press the tornado warning test... *Wind is blowing* "IT'S A TORNADO!" **Attention this is a test *weird noise* This is only a test *weird noise ** "Na, never mind it's just a test. SWEET JESUS THERE IT IS!"
More or less. Electronic voice sirens have their applications like college campuses and fairgrounds and the like, but having a full blown city or countywide system of voice sirens is a waste because you have so much reverberation and whatnot. Many cities that have voice sirens don't even use them. Here in Columbus, they used to use the voice feature for tornado warnings but they stopped because they ran into so many problems with it.
Man, why can't all Whelen sirens sound like this? Better yet, why can't all electronic sirens? IMO, I think dual-toned sirens are a lot more easily heard than their single-toned counterparts, especially over long distances.
Thats wierd, everyone calls whelens quealens, but i would call these dual tone whelens roarens or something. But i agree with the squealen for the single toned ones.
