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Re: Military Bases with Sirens?

Mon Feb 16, 2015 7:21 pm

Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton, OH has Whelen 2800's. Tyndall AFB in Panama City, FL has ATI's. I actually recorded one.
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Re: Military Bases with Sirens?

Mon Feb 16, 2015 8:06 pm

I almost forgot; Ft. Ticonderoga NY has Whelens; can't remember if thy were 2800s or 2900s...

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Re: Military Bases with Sirens?

Tue Feb 17, 2015 3:10 am

During WWII, many bases used the Model 5. I've seen them on older buildings at several bases, along with the newer electronics that replaced them.
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Re: Military Bases with Sirens?

Tue Feb 17, 2015 3:21 am

Tulsa International Airport AFB has WPS 2805s & 2901s. The 2805s have been around since the 90s and the 2901s are from 2013.

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Re: Military Bases with Sirens?

Thu Feb 26, 2015 2:24 pm

Badger 12 wrote:
VASirens wrote:
Badger 12 wrote:Just curious, anyone have any ideas what the following forts use? Fort Indiantown Gap-Pennsylvania, Fort Knox-Kentucky, or Fort Dix-New Jeresy
Indiantown Gap has a bunch of mid-sized Mods (3012s as I recall) floating around, along with an old abandoned STL-10 at a former FD station. Knox has large ATI/E-Class type sirens from what I can see on satellite imagery. Dix appears to have solar Modulators.
Thanks, those are my favorite bases, (Dont exactly know why) But about the Chrysler in Horsham, was it actually a military base it was installed at? I heard it was some sort of Air Force base but I'm not entirely sure.
That Chrysler could have been at 1 of 2 places, either the Willow Grove Naval Air Station Fire Department or the Naval Air Development Center at Warminster Fire Department.. they were both in the same area. Warminster was BRACed in in the mid 1990's and Willow Grove was closed in 2007 or so, the Warminster site has been completely redeveloped into a business park so nothing that was there is there any longer (except a cool centrifuge that was used for pilot training). Willow Grove is still there and has been turned over to Reserve units, the fire department itself has been closed since 2007. I will comb the base on Bing maps to see if I can find anything, I had looked before and didn't see a Chrysler siren at the fire department but I will give it the old college try and check again. I was at a fire department in Warminster back in 1992 and remember seeing what looked like an old water tower mount with a large object on top of it which may have been the Chrysler, haven't been back to the fire department since but have passed Willow Grove on numerous occasions and didn't see a Chrysler siren from the roadway.

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