3016 test lakewood CO

[scooterbugs25]

http://www.9news.com/video/player.aspx?aid=32435&bw=

[Thunderbolt 612]

Those 3016's sounded a lot like Federal electronic sirens. Is anyone sure the sirens use Whelen boxes, or is it a custom sound format?

[uncommonsense]

Those 3016's sounded a lot like Federal electronic sirens. Is anyone sure the sirens use Whelen boxes, or is it a custom sound format?

Wow. I hail from St. Louis, 3016 capital of the world. And let me tell you--that is not the typical Whelen tone used for them. I don't know if that's a modified dual tone created by Whelen for them or not (all the ones in St. Louis are single tone). But let me tell you--that is not like any 3016 I've ever heard before.

Though, I will say. I'd have trouble beliving that there'd be a newer Whelen control system activating Federal boxes. That wouldn't make much sense. So I'm pretty well inclined to belive its Whelen tones--just ones we've not heard.

[3t22]

I remember hearing someone mentioning that Tulsa OK's 3016 system has a few like this. One can be heard here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g13aXjINU_A it's right in the beginning, just before a few normal ones are heard.

[TornadoSirenFan]

Those 3016's sounded a lot like Federal electronic sirens. Is anyone sure the sirens use Whelen boxes, or is it a custom sound format?

ya those things must have the EOWS chip in....that is exactly the tone from federal!

[jkvernon]

Whelen offered 3016s in dual tone when they were made.

[AllSafe]

ya those things must have the EOWS chip in....that is exactly the tone from federal!

Didn't Federal Signal use analog tone generators in the Siratone series?

[KCM]

That was me about the Tulsa sirens, yes there are several that are dual tone both like the one in the video and a lower pitch dual tone.