Model L wrote: ↑Tue Jul 13, 2021 4:40 am
I was down in brookings today and decided to take a look at the STL 10 in pistol river. turns out, it is indeed an Ex-SONGS siren, siren #CP-09 to be exact. the second STL-10 head is no longer there, it may have been moved inside the building or used to replace a different siren. the siren head at harris beach (the one mounted on the bathroom) was removed probably 2 or 3 years ago at this point, you can still see where the pole was and where the wires to the siren entered the building. additionally, the siren in pistol river is missing one of its horns entirely, likely due to it rusting to the point of falling off.
Now that right there is awesome, that specific location was on Camp Pendleton. Please tell me you got a video tour of it or at least pictures of it, especially the cabinet. Were you by chance able to open the cabinet at all? They appear to not have a spot for a lock according to the blueprints of them as well. I've noticed a few of the sirens actually had different cabinets, such as the one that was at Harris Beach, must've put the controls in a new enclosure or something, as for horns rotting on some and falling off, that's pretty crazy, the costal air must be much more harsh then it is down here in SoCal, because in a picture of an STL-10 from the legacy system taken in 2001, its in great shape minus little spots of rust, atleast that one was, but no rotting or major rust. We still need to find the rest of them because supposedly they got 23 sirens from the legacy system, but only about 6 or so have been found. I really want someone to get pictures of the cabinets and if possible, open them and get pictures of the controls, but they did replace the original radios with Federal FC's.
Also if you notice, the brackets the legs are mounted on instead of the legs bolting to the pull itself are actually Sentry mounts, because believe it or not, the system originally started out in late 1981 as Sentry 10V's, 5V's, and 3V8's, but for a super short time only up until about February or March 1982, until they swapped all the Sentries out for STL-10s by May 1982, and then later on the Model 120s came to be and swapped majority of the STL-10s out, but they decided to swap out atleast 21 STL-10s out for Model 120s, and leave the remaining STL-10s up since it would cost them another 1 million or so to swap out the STL-10s were all Model 120s. And they determined any future sirens that would be added, such as in 1987/88 when locations SC-15, 16, 17, and 18 were added in due to new devolvement in the hilly areas in San Clemente would be Model 120s, and at the same time those for locations were added in, location SC-12 which was a Thunderbolt that was already there as an old CD siren for San Clemente, but was incorporated and used for SONGS now was also replaced by a 120.
Here are documents showing the the Sentries being swapped for STL-10s, as well as locations and what not in 1981-82, you'll notice that most locations were labeled differently such as the locations in Dana Point being labled as "OC" instead of "DP" because Dana Point wasn't its own officially city prior to 1989, it was just an Orange County beach and city and not its own city, along with some not added in yet such as only being 3 sirens in San Juan Capistrano, which was later on brought to 8 sirens, and for the Whelen system, 9 total locations since new development was occurring around the time the Whelens went up and more coverage was needed, this was the same case in a part of San Clemente as well with 2 brand new locations added in, another thing to note about the Whelen system is that there was a handful o locations that were actually moved slightly, but here are the docs:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BatPsm ... sp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w5oYn_ ... sp=sharing