Steelville, IL Mystery speakers

[Greenrid]

OK, so this is an actual mystery siren/speakers. It looks like a normal pole with a leftover mount, but if you look in different angles, it starts to look like VERY small speakers. Somehow they're actually used for voice warnings, how far do they even reach?

https://earth.google.com/web/search/Ste ... cQAjoDCgEw

[ArxCyberwolf]

Whatever those are, I don't think it's a siren at all. They look more like light fixtures to me. Also, considering it's at a church, if these did happen to be speakers, they'd be electronic carillon bells, and not a siren.

[Synther]

Definitely a vehicular siren, those speakers on the pole look like Federal TS100s. Another member of the board contacted them a while back, apparently it is a tornado siren.

[Greenrid]

My question is why they would use a vehicle siren instead of a normal one? They don't need lots of range? At first I thought it also could be used for a leak, because it's near a pumping station.

[nvanw27]

My question is why they would use a vehicle siren instead of a normal one? They don't need lots of range? At first I thought it also could be used for a leak, because it's near a pumping station.

Likely a local handyman set it up for them, or they didn't need much range. It appears to be a similar situation to the Custer Electric sirens around Indiana, which are just a vehicular siren on a pole that's tripped by a radio.

[Greenrid]

It looks like they also didn't need to cover the whole area, because the speakers only point in 2 directions. Also, what controller is that hooked up to? A normal radio transmitter?