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Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 5:43 am
by Thunderboltlover
Has anyone seen RideOp74's videos of several of Witchita's t-bolts going off? He has an awesome recording of one in attack!
Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 7:35 pm
by SirenSynthsInc
I'm a Resident of Wichita, I can give you Some Siren Locations-
Model 7BT- 14th and Perry (in a 3 way Intersection)
Whelen VORTEX-R4- 1st and Saint Paul, Behind the ARC on 2nd Street.
52 Thunderbolt 1000A1 (Demo Unit!!)- Douglas and Anna by VFW.
Thunderbolt 1000T (Chopper Setting 7)- Lawrence Dumont Stadium
old Thunderbolt 1000? T?- Eastgate Shopping Center
Some Good Locations to Record there.
Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 7:37 pm
by SirenSynthsInc
kswx29 wrote:Sedgwick County does have a few Whelen Vortexs...and Newton has a system of Whelens. Thanks for showing the map. I havn't had any time so I have not been on md5 and I's map but your map has locations ours dont.
As Far as I know there are Only Two. There's TONS of em in Butler County! Sedgwick Installed their System in 1956 leading into 1961. That's Why Our System is Called ' All Or Nothing' As it Sets off ALL of the Countie's 101 Sirens no matter where the Storm is. Wichita has about 63 Thunderbolts and a Whelen which I'm None too far from.
Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 5:05 am
by Thunderboltlover
SirenSynthsInc wrote:kswx29 wrote:Sedgwick County does have a few Whelen Vortexs...and Newton has a system of Whelens. Thanks for showing the map. I havn't had any time so I have not been on md5 and I's map but your map has locations ours dont.
As Far as I know there are Only Two. There's TONS of em in Butler County! Sedgwick Installed their System in 1956 leading into 1961. That's Why Our System is Called ' All Or Nothing' As it Sets off ALL of the Countie's 101 Sirens no matter where the Storm is. Wichita has about 73 Thunderbolts and a Whelen which I'm None too far from.
How many of each kind of t-bolt does Witchita have?
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 12:36 am
by SirenSynthsInc
Thunderboltlover wrote:SirenSynthsInc wrote:kswx29 wrote:Sedgwick County does have a few Whelen Vortexs...and Newton has a system of Whelens. Thanks for showing the map. I havn't had any time so I have not been on md5 and I's map but your map has locations ours dont.
As Far as I know there are Only Two. There's TONS of em in Butler County! Sedgwick Installed their System in 1956 leading into 1961. That's Why Our System is Called ' All Or Nothing' As it Sets off ALL of the Countie's 101 Sirens no matter where the Storm is. Wichita has about 73 Thunderbolts and a Whelen which I'm None too far from.
How many of each kind of t-bolt does Witchita have?
Around 50 1000T's and 13 1000s.
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 1:08 am
by 1000Bthunderbolt
dilloncarpenter wrote:kswx29 wrote:Wichita has tons of Thunderbolts...that is the majority of their system.
That is what I've heard, but I never expected to see any just driving through on our way back to Colorado. I also heard they have a few Whelens?
Also, north of Wichita in Newton I saw 5-6 2906s, in Hesston, a 2001, in McPherson also a 2001, and a few Thunderbolts in Salina.
This is semi-unrelated, but based off of that and some other sirens I have seen through Kansas, I made a map of everything I have found and sent it to kwsx29 for some locations to add to his map. I haven't made a big deal of it because I didn't want it to seem like I was taking their idea and it was something to do in the LOADS of spare time I've had lately. Anyway, here is the map to look at.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&m ... c2d0449599
The thunderbolt siren on this map that is in wichita next to I35 is at the East High School. That is actually a 1000 single tone. not a dual tone 1000t. There is a video of it on You Tube.
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 1:13 am
by dilloncarpenter
Thanks for the correction, although I didn't even know I still had that map lol... Google Maps has been murdering my already slow computer, so I haven't done much with it in a while.