When the conditions are right I can hear the model 7 at Marseilles IL (my avatar picture) from my backyard in Ottawa about 8 miles away.

They might be using a Public Works frequency, for example. That's how it was in the city I work for. Dispatch activated the sirens on the same frequency that we talk on and if someone keyed a mic at the same time they were putting out the tones it would interfere with the activation sometimes. They...

This thread is beyond ancient, but I thought I would dig it up since I heard on the radio today that this siren is being replaced very soon. There used to be tons of Thunderbolts around here and this is one of the last ones left.

Surprisingly they didn't scrap it. There's a bunch of things in the paper tonight about the year anniversary and one of them is this picture and the caption saying that they're using the old siren in a memorial.

Ottawa HAD a Thunderbolt. It was removed along with the 2t22 on the south side in april, just a sea of 2001s now.

Not anymore....

Naplate IL. Took a direct hit from an F3 while sounding the tornado warning. (Pic from local newspaper)

I was downtown during the monthly test yesterday and only the 2001 sounded, no Thunderbolt. Went by there this morning and there is a crane there, they are removing it

I think they just figured that since it was 60+ years old it wasn't worth reusing. I have a feeling it's in a scrap bin somewhere. The new siren is gonna be on a pole in a park in the center of town, it's a pretty small town so one siren is enough.

Thanks, we didn't have much damage up here mostly tree limbs and power lines down. The whole town was without power for several hours and the south side was out for 3 days, the power company had over 400 people working and had to replace over 80 poles. I was really impressed with how fast they got e...