On a day that I christen national 4J25 day, I filmed this 1004 with TrainsandSirens1. This to my understanding is the first video of this particular siren.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BII7y0oCQRc
Or what we have was a Whelen. PeachtreeSirens also filmed another one of these in Covington which looked very 1004 like:uncommonsense wrote: ↑Thu Apr 26, 2018 3:19 pmBased on the extent literature this is the only configuration these 1000s came in.
What we have here is not a Whelen.
While looking further into this, I believe it's a WS-1004 on a Loudoun controller. The fact that these things are outrageously high-pitched makes me believe even more it's on a Loudoun.Chem_Boffin_6589 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 26, 2018 4:28 pm
It sounds the same, also sounds the same as Ian's MasterBlaster making me think it's a retrofit. There's also a picture of an abandoned Whelen WS-1004 in Smyrna next to a WPS 4004 [for speaker comparison] which I saw recently which has the same controller minus the extra array seen on the news clip.
Yes, you are correct about Winona Lake’s Whelen WS-1008. It is an original installation from the 1970’s. I used to live about 10 minutes away from there, prior to 2015 when I moved to Northeastern Ohio. What I can tell you is that looking at street view and knowing about it up till I moved, they never acquired funding to fix this siren or replace it with the “4 new sirens” described in the news clip. There simply wasn’t enough money available and Kosciusko County EMA did not fund a grant for it. The City of Warsaw (which borders Winona Lake) had 3 sirens for the 12 years I lived there (from 2004-2015), but now they have 4 apparently (this is just from what I’ve heard; I’ve never went back so I can’t say for sure). As far as this 1008 goes, it is still up, and as far as I know, very likely still broken, if it even works at all anymore. But judging by the clip; I’d have to assume that this 1004 mentioned is very likely on a Loudoun controller.uncommonsense wrote: ↑Thu Apr 26, 2018 3:19 pmHere we go. Here's the video I was talking about that has footage of a proper WS-1000 sounding.
https://youtu.be/2bOQJOI5-pA
Based on the extent literature this is the only configuration these 1000s came in.
What we have here is not a Whelen.
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