Re: San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) former mystery/custom engineered siren FOUND!!!!
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:54 pm
I finally got in contact with the head person (Or atleast one of the head people) In Dana Point regarding this just the other day, I have been trying to contact the right person for a year now and finally found the main person. I didn't get a chance to ask him why the city wanted to replace the 2800s, especially since they weren't that old and they and the rest of the system in the other jurisdictions had major cabinet and E-969 software upgrades done in the years 2010, 2012, and then as late as 2017 from what I was told by SONGS a few years back before the Director of Emergency Planning was laid off, so basically most of the system was at 2900 spec cabinet wise, so there wasn't a need to replace them, but the city got misinformed about something from SONGS, but here's the reply I got from Dana Point:
"Good Afternoon Aaron,
Your email was forwarded to me regarding the sirens. The City does still plan to install a new system that provides both tones, and verbal commands at a later date when funding is available for such a project."
As I talk with them more, I will ask them why they replaced the 2800s which were obviously already voice capable, but just had to be enabled since when SONGS set up the system they didn't program any prerecorded voices into any of the sirens in the system throughout the jurisdictions, and only 4 sirens that were in the whole system had live PA done on them which were locations SC-05, 06, 07, and 08 in San Clemente. It wouldn't have been hard to put in prerecorded voices and even use live PA over the sirens in Dana Point, but it seems like SONGS didn't inform the city all that well with the additional capabilities the 2800s had that SONGS didn't have set up on them, and that the city probably wasn't aware of the existing sirens having and being capable of stuff they wanted to do with them, still stupid though. I really think the city will end up getting Whelen 2900s though, and that's what I will recommend to them as well.