In conjunction with Tippecanoe county siren system, is the Purdue University ?All-Hazards Outdoor Warning System? which comprises of 7 sirens within the physical boundaries, and 5 XT22?s on the academic campus. The other two are 2001DC?s with one being at Lafayette Rgl. Airport on the south side of campus, and the other at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex at the school?s NW corner. All of the sirens at Purdue are radio controlled by the county, however, the school has activation privileges of the 5 XT22?s. With the recent events at Virginia Tech, new policies have been implemented regarding emergency notification, including inter-campus cable/BoilerRadio override, a voluntary emergency text-message system which is still being tested, and the decision to ensure the school has a direct means of activating the campus sirens, should an emergency arise. The sirens on campus are very well hidden, with one of them being on the top of a 20-story residence hall, and the siren only being visible from the Wabash River levee. Another siren is located smack-dab in center of an academic building roof, and it has taken me months to pinpoint its location. It can really only be seen from the football stadium, and the fact that it?s painted the same color as the roof it lives on hasn?t helped either. Probably the easiest siren to find is the one that has already been archived. It?s right off S. R. 26, and is the siren closest to where I live. I still have yet to find the other two Xt22?s. (So far its been one 3T22, and two 2T22?s) I have some idea as to where they might be, and as soon as we start morning workouts I will have a little more time during the afternoons to go hunt them down. This system, while getting older, works and sounds great!
As far as the testing goes:
Authority:
Testing: Monthly
Time: First Saturday o/the month @ 11:00AM
Normal Test Procedure: [County-wide] 3 minute ?Alert? signal.
----UPDATE----
Ok so I learned a few things today: Not all of the PU sirens are 2/3T22's. I did find one more of the 5 sirens on campus, and I have a pretty good idea as to what the last one is....(hint: it winds up just a couple seconds before all the rest do hehe)
Here are the pics!
This 3T22 is the siren nearest to my dorm room...pretty much on the other side of the courtyard from me. It is on Earhart hall, and has already been added to the photo archive.
Surprise! Well lookie lookie. Apparently we aren't all XT22 after all. I discovered this guy this morning. It is in an on-campus apartmet complex near the water tower. I figured there had to be a siren up here since this is the highest point on campus. You can hear this one wind up quite clearly in the video. (Almost right after the 2T22.)
Here is a closer shot of the unit. I have no idea how old this unit is, but it looks to be fairly new. The sirens around here are well taken care of.
This rather unique looking 2T22ish siren is the easiest siren to spot...and yet one of the most difficult to photograph, however, thanks to the magic of the optical zoom lens digital camera, this picture was made possible.
The coverage of it is awesome...seeing as it sits atop a 20-floor building. I'm thinking that it may have suffered some kind of injury when they moved it...being a logical reason for the home-style cap. It looks to have bare horns, and a yellow body. Interesting indeed.
Like I said, this siren lives way they hell up there.
The last siren I caught today, but certainly not the least, was this 2T22. This, like it's sibling on top of the other building, was rather tricky to photograph. I had to go into another one of the buildings to get high enough to see it. This is the main siren featured in the test video...although you really can't see it.
One last thing before we get to the fun. This most definitely is not a siren, but I thought it looked cool, and who knows what kinds of fun the electrical engineering students have with it. If it was a siren, I'd probably vote it as scariest looking.
The Video:
You know, for a Kodak DX6490 digital camera, this sure has a pretty good little microphone in it. So I had planned on just standing in the parking lot with the camera aimed at what would be the very top of that 2T22. Apparently it was coffee time for the PU Police and they were all chatting up a storm in their Chargers. Anyways I stuck the camera in a tree and pretended to be engaged in a pressing text message duel on my phone. Hope yall enjoy. What all can y'all here? I think we have a T-Bolt on campus that no one told me about. I was pretty much in the middle of the middle of campus, so the mix during the first few seconds is pretty good. I'll try to get a coverage map up a little later.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znHLoKco9KY
