Yeah, I was at the Dallas OEM about a year ago and they said that if they get the funding we could see a new system in the near future.
Wasn’t the old system only fully decommissioned until 2014? That’s fairly fast compared to Fort Worth. Looks like our vortexes will be here for the foreseeable future. Then again, i’m not an OEM.
That’s what I thought, but then if you look at Rowlett they replaced their T-128s at only 14 years old with Whelen WPS 2906s and WPS 2910s
Also, looking at Google Street View of some Thunderbolts it looks like they haven’t gone off since 2007
Yeah. Rockwall’s ACA system lasted forever until the choppers started jamming. I think
My part of tarrant county has 2001’s
Near Arlington? I think they have 2001s
No lol i don’t live in Arlington
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One Whelen WPS-2905. If we count unused fire sirens, also a Model 7 (the town’s noise ordinance prevents the fire department from using it)
If the FD can’t use it, they should tie it in with the Whelen siren for backup (especially with the town only having one active siren). As long as it works right now, they wouldn’t even have to do maintenance on it if they didn’t want to spend money. They could just run it until it dies.
It has random Federal Signal model 7ATs/2. We dont live in a tornado/severe weather region, so they are disconnected. Theyre being taken down. They tested it once and they barfed up a bunch of dirt
My city has all 2001-130s, SRNBs, and a single Modulator on a Southwest transit station.
In 2015, we had ACA Allertors, PN-20s, and even a few of the extremely rare PP-15s.
Most of the cities around me used Allertors, then my county was like:
“guys your systems suck replace them”
and that’s how the great ACA purge in my county started.
The Allertors had at least 40+ years left, and they are louder. but they were replaced by sirens that arent even expected to last more than 20 years, 2001s SUCK
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Have you ever tried using the Official U.S.A. Siren Map?
https://www.google.com/mymaps/viewer?mid=1AA5lVxum02jYm0T3jDepjuNctwVPf51j&hl=en
It’s not perfect and is a bit outdated but it’s still a good resource.
There is also the Official or Various sirens in insert state here Siren maps too.
I would suggest looking at the siren maps for your state as well since they can be, at times, more up to date than the Nationwide map.
If you’re curious about the UK, there’s lots of sirens, but they’re mostly not in systems. Anyways, I live near a Gent 2HP (out of use), a Klaxon electronic siren, and a Klaxon Duplo which is sounded every day at 1PM! And my nearest siren system is the Rampton Hospital siren system. Click here to open an interactive map.
Welcome to the forums! I’ve always found it interesting how the UK has hospital escape sirens. They must be terrifying to hear, especially during the night.
I probably posted here years ago about my home town’s siren, but anyways I’ll post here again… As I found more information about it.
It turns out it is not a KMEurop as I thought, but rather, it is a Cicca R3P, unfortunately, it is long inactive, but I do hope one day I’ll be able to acquire it and save this piece of my childhood, this is the very siren that used to terrify me as a kid and sparked my interest in sirens.
I found my siren. Thanks! The crazy thing is though, our siren is
located in a different town! Idk what it is though. It looks like a Model 2.
Even more amusing, most French sirens port, sound like a STL-10 (50Hz moment), with a few exceptions (say hello to the Constructions Électriques du Nord 10 port sirens).
The R3P itself despite being 8 ports is slightly lower pitched due to the tight rotor tolerances, also making it louder:
(a friend of mine recorded an identical Cicca siren)