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by DJ2226
Fri Feb 09, 2024 11:26 pm
Forum: Videos and Media
Topic: Georgia's First 508s Tested For SWA Week Tornado Drill
Replies: 1
Views: 268

Georgia's First 508s Tested For SWA Week Tornado Drill

Peach County recently had a batch of 508s installed in their system to extend their network's coverage and replace a Whelen Vortex-R4 that picked a fight with Thor and woke up dead afterward. Their system consists of a mix of R4s, these new 508s, a 2nd gen 2001-SRN, and a STH-10A. The Blue Bird plan...
by DJ2226
Thu Jan 18, 2024 1:34 am
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: How far away have you heard a siren?
Replies: 12
Views: 1127

Re: How far away have you heard a siren?

A Vortex R4 from 9.3 miles away, 14V-B from 8 miles away, and 16V1T-B from roughly 7.5 miles away. Unfortunately, my cameras didn't pick up the Sentry sirens as well in those cases where I've heard them in the distance, but one did manage to pick up the Vortex.



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by DJ2226
Wed Jan 17, 2024 11:19 pm
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: Possible Klaxon ripoff of a Whelen
Replies: 6
Views: 724

Re: Possible Klaxon ripoff of a Whelen

On the electronic siren side of things, Klaxon is actually a reseller of sirens from the company Comtel in Greece. This is one of the products that they produce called the Sound Box Electronic siren, which comes as either a single-emitter siren or a two-emitter unit, which I'll attach below. They ar...
by DJ2226
Tue Jan 09, 2024 2:46 am
Forum: Videos and Media
Topic: Norcross GA ATI...yall check this out! You'll recognize the recording...
Replies: 5
Views: 17272

Re: Norcross GA ATI...yall check this out! You'll recognize the recording...

ATI sirens, at least from the limited documentation I've seen, are little more than Raspberry Pis (or something equivalent) mated to an amplifier board. Its little wonder so many of them just play things back. ATI's controllers are actually capable of producing a number of custom tones natively, bu...
by DJ2226
Tue Dec 19, 2023 3:30 am
Forum: Community Systems
Topic: Jefferson County MO future system
Replies: 6
Views: 38402

Re: Jefferson County MO future system

Alertus has been doing a lot of sales on the education side of things, so it would be interesting to see if they were to win this and a countywide system of HPSAs go up. HQE/SiRcom has been doing more on the military side especially since WAVES went defunct a couple of years ago. They've been pickin...
by DJ2226
Wed Aug 16, 2023 6:45 pm
Forum: Mystery Sirens
Topic: Jordan River, British Columbia Tsunami Siren
Replies: 11
Views: 19527

Re: Jordan River, British Columbia Tsunami Siren

It's either a HPSA-3104 or a HPSA-81x4-R (x = 0, 1, or 2, depending on the age and radio). There isn't a way to tell unless you know what controller was on the siren originally. Since WAVES switched from SiRcom's horns to their own in around 2010-ish, this is a newer unit from Eaton or Cooper Notifi...
by DJ2226
Tue Aug 01, 2023 1:42 pm
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: What kind of controllers did Vogtle 3016's had before the T-128's replaced them?
Replies: 3
Views: 5007

Re: What kind of controllers did Vogtle 3016's had before the T-128's replaced them?

Originally the sirens had dual-toned ESC-864 logic boards and typical Type II cabinets of that era. They upgraded them in the early 2000s to the 2020s and decided to do a complete upgrade to the controls, where they ditched the cabinets for the ones they had up until the point when they were replace...
by DJ2226
Sat Apr 29, 2023 4:27 am
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: Alertus Found on the News (Flagstaff, AZ)
Replies: 7
Views: 6530

Re: Alertus Found on the News (Flagstaff, AZ)

For anyone wondering why these are using the tones they do instead of the typical dual-tone European ones (415/425 Hz), the system in Flagstaff is actually using a newer controller that is made by Alertus. The company previously imported its controllers from Telegrafia or whoever makes their equipme...
by DJ2226
Sun Feb 26, 2023 9:44 pm
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: What exactly was ASI?
Replies: 8
Views: 11485

Re: What exactly was ASI?

HudsonRiverSirens wrote:
Fri Feb 24, 2023 12:36 am
Also, HA sirens were installed with ATI controllers? Are there any confirmed instances?
Not as far as I know. They had an image of an ATI cabinet on their website or one of the PDFs at one point.
by DJ2226
Thu Feb 23, 2023 1:00 am
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: What exactly was ASI?
Replies: 8
Views: 11485

Re: What exactly was ASI?

ASI is/was Alerting Solutions Inc. If I'm not mistaken, the company started off as Raytek Incorporated, which was a Hörmann dealership back in the 80s. They eventually became Hörmann/Hoerman of America and sold their ECN and E57 sirens in the US. Sentry once considered dealing with them for electron...

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