Your city's siren coverage

[jkvernon]

Here's the recording I made yesterday. I love how the lady messes up and has to correct herself. "This is a test of the emergen... Dublin emergency warning system. This is only a test."

http://media.putfile.com/62707-Dublin-Siren-Test

And here's a recording I made this past March during the Ohio Statewide Tornado from my house. I actually may have posted this recording alread Dublin's system sounds first doing wail then Franklin County's system comes on 30 seconds later.

http://media.putfile.com/2007-Ohio-Stat ... lin-County

[Thunderbolt 612]

Speaking of the WPS-2700 series, did they use 400 watt drivers, or were they 100 watts?

[kswx29]

Here's the recording I made yesterday. I love how the lady messes up and has to correct herself. "This is a test of the emergen... Dublin emergency warning system. This is only a test."

http://media.putfile.com/62707-Dublin-Siren-Test

And here's a recording I made this past March during the Ohio Statewide Tornado from my house. I actually may have posted this recording alread Dublin's system sounds first doing wail then Franklin County's system comes on 30 seconds later.

http://media.putfile.com/2007-Ohio-Stat ... lin-County

In the begining does she mess up? It sounded like she said
"This is a test of the Emer, Dublin Emergency Warning System, this is only a test."

[jkvernon]

She sure did mess up. I've always thought it would be funny to hear someone like sneeze, cough, or even belch accidently over the siren.

As for the 2700 series drivers, when they came out in the early 1990s they used 400 watt drivers.

[kswx29]

And here's a recording I made this past March during the Ohio Statewide Tornado from my house. I actually may have posted this recording alread Dublin's system sounds first doing wail then Franklin County's system comes on 30 seconds later.

http://media.putfile.com/2007-Ohio-Stat ... lin-County

I just now listened to that, sounds pretty spooky!

[kswx29]

Finally! I think i have all of Topeka's old siren locations down. Here is a map i made of what i believe is Topeka's original system. No 2001s. The good news is Many of Topeka's older sirens are still active today. The bad news, many of Topeka's 500ATs have been replaced, only 3 remain. Also, all but 1 of Topeka's original thunderbolts are still up and running today! But anyways here is the coverage map i made.

**One of those thunderbolts is still active today. I put a black dot instead of a red dot.**
You may notice that some parts of the west side aren't covered. I believe this is because that part of town was being built up in the late 70s/early 80s and that they didn't get a early model 2001 until the early 90s because that part of town only has Roundbacks and Generation 1 squarebacks. The red dots indicate that the siren is still active today. Black dots indicate it has been replace. The huge blue dot is where a 500AT once stood but in 2005 they replaced it with a 2t22 I thought it was kind of weird. Also, I'm not sure if you can see but in the lower left hand corner, there is a thunderbolt with an pink "X" in the center, I don't think that siren ever worked. The county said they always had problems with it and it always faced the same way so i know it never went off. Before it was replaced it was facing the same way as it was in this video (toward end): http://ares.homeip.net/~bwillcox/sirens ... peka-1.wmv

[Brendan Ahern]

What program did you guys use to make these maps?

[kswx29]

What program did you guys use to make these maps?

I used Microsoft Streets & Trips.