The Siren Board

Dane County has been working closely will ASC over the years. I highly doubt they will get any Federal products any time soon. From what it sounds like the Dane County EMA is friends with with some one at ASC and is doing what ever they tell him. An example of this is disposing of any old siren or making them permanently in operable.

FSThunderboltfan1000 wrote:Dane County has been working closely will ASC over the years. I highly doubt they will get any Federal products any time soon. From what it sounds like the Dane County EMA is friends with with some one at ASC and is doing what ever they tell him. An example of this is disposing of any old siren or making them permanently in operable.

Honestly I've always thought they changed contracts to Federal with all the new 508's, but was proved wrong with seeing that new T-128 last month. They must've changed contracts again to ASC earlier this year I'm guessing. The original map I saw had Federal Signal coverage but the one they have published now has ASC coverage. You can only tell however with the midsize circles representing a 2001/Equinox or a T-121.

Not my video but a relative took this video for me of the new T-128 on Emil Street in higher quality.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am-N59s0EGA

This weekend I went to the majority of the new siren locations and this map I created shows what replaced what in most of Dane County just this year including 5 T-112's, 6 T-121's, and 12 T-128's. Did not check Mount Horeb, Cross Plains, and Cambridge but those three should also be T-128's now. I also did not check what was labeled a T-112 in Shorewood Hills so that one is unknown for now but most likely a T-112. The other 5 are comfirmed and all T-121's and T-128's shown are comfirmed

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid= ... uoefR7VBaU

The map is locked up, access denied.

DJ2226 wrote:The map is locked up, access denied.

Sorry about that I just changed the privacy settings to public just now

Here's a thread here that I also made showing pics of the majority of the new sirens in Dane County. I did not go to all 25ish new sirens but I went to most of them. https://airraidsirens.com/forums/viewto ... =2&t=19980

So let me get this straight, not that long ago, the county put ATI radios on all the sirens, them they replaced some sirens with new federals, and now are going with ASC. are they still putting ATI radios on all new sirens? They should just put ASC controls or radios at least on all sirens and get a computlert system so everything is the same. Any why not just put horns on the 112's and have more overlapping coverage, the more the merrier, right?

JMAN12343610 wrote:So let me get this straight, not that long ago, the county put ATI radios on all the sirens, them they replaced some sirens with new federals, and now are going with ASC. are they still putting ATI radios on all new sirens? They should just put ASC controls or radios at least on all sirens and get a computlert system so everything is the same. Any why not just put horns on the 112's and have more overlapping coverage, the more the merrier, right?

Yes sir Dane went with ASC in 2009 and then they went to Federal in 2013 and then they went back to ASC again in 2016. And yes they still use ATI radios.

At the time they went with ATI to modernize the system with two-way equipment and unify the equipment to one format regardless of brand due to them switching vendors from ASC and FS frequently. Unless they have completed the upgrade to all DC sirens it may be easier to just adapt the sirens to the ATI system instead of going through the hassle of migrating over to a full ASC or FS system while adding sirens in from different manufacturers. On a side note, I find it rather odd that all of the sirens they added in were straight DC. Most areas usually go with AC/DC.