Whelen WPS-3016 Fast Wail and Voice - Vernon Hills, IL 1/1/19 

I love the echoes so much!

Loving that voice message

Nice! I feel like the older style Whelen voice carries farther than the newer style voice; the voice on this unit is definitely older. The Whelens up here in Wadsworth are audible in voice 5 miles away on a good weather day with minimal wind; I have heard them that far away before. For how quiet these things are, the distance they can carry always amazes me.

Voice message sounds awesome! And so does the sound off!

I love the voice message on this.

2:04 fast wail 6:05 voice

Sounds awesome!

that voice WAS CLEAR AS HELL

Sounds like you can hear Mundelein's STL-10 as well.

At 3:00, when the Siren has turned to me, it make a sound so much high that my ossicles has broken into pieces It hurts my ears and i cannot hear now.

Sounds amazing! Very healthy! Awesome video!

First time? I hear these every week.

2:06 attack (fast wail) 5:33 rotates north for voice 6:07 north facing voice 6:45 rotates east for voice 6:58 east facing voice 7:35 rotates south for voice 7:50 south facing voice 8:27 rotates west for voice 8:41 west facing voice 9:18 rotate north for idle

welp, I know where I'm going this summer!

I hear an STL-10 too!

Cool Whelen siren.

Oddly relaxing

Those Whelens doing Alert in the beginning aren't Mundelein's. Mundelein's WPS-4004s are on the same system as this WPS-3000. Vernon Hills police controls the Vernon Hills siren system in conjunction with Countryside Fire District, and the system is actually a very big one spanning over Vernon Hills, Mundelein, the outskirts of Libertyville, and the majority of the Countryside Fire District service area. The Countryside Fire District's system (i.e. the stray 4004s around Mundelein, Libertyville, etc) are linked to Vernon Hills' system, they just use a different voice message. That wasn't always the case, however. The individual municipalities used to control their own sirens, until Countryside Fire District consolidated and got handed the responsibility of activating various WPS-4004s around Cuba Twp., Barrington, and Round Lake. Now, there's a TON of DTMF chatter over the frequency, activating all these different systems connected to one frequency. Super complicated if you ask me.

That’s the attack tone

Unfortunately this is the only 3016 working in the area I think. There's a 3016 in Mundelein which is broken (failed on me last November) and I believe the remaining 3016 in Libertyville is broken as well. And I think there's four 4004's belonging to Vernon Hills if I'm not wrong, along with the 2806. The 4004's within the Countryside Fire protection district do fast wail as well. I think they are on the same system as this one, those just use a different voice message.

We can hear a Thunderbolt 1000T and a Siren like a 3T22 turning on in the background at 1:35.

ESC-864! Nice

WPS-3016 or WS-3016 isn’t the actual name from whelen company its actually WS-3000 or WPS-3000 depends on the sirens age

Can someone explain what the fast wail signal is used for?

does this have a digital ESC_864? sounds like it

6:05 that’s the same voice the 4004s use in Norridge IL

What could be fast wail used for?

0:07 whelen wps 4004 ambience

Why don't Whelens rotate 360 degrees?

ITS NOT AT OAKWOOD PARK!!! THATS JUST THE NAME OF THE STREET IT IS ON. it’s at HARTMAN park

Why doesn't Whelen put collector rings in their sirens?

that middle bar is off center.. THAT MIDDLE BAR IS OFF CENTER >:(

Sounds like a baby crying for some reason

2:06 Afghan EAS

CREEPY