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siren+football=AWESOME!
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 4:53 am
by Nicktendious
So for anyone that lives in the greater Houston, Texas area and knows the UH Cougar Football team, at every home game they use a siren for whenever UH gets a touchdown and/or field goal. This particular siren that they use (to me looks like) a Whelen 2802, mounted on a mobile pole that they can haul the siren around to put away for storage. I will put an image of the siren and a video of what tone it uses on YouTube.
http://youtu.be/MYVBqxS1Jhc
(siren starts at about 43 seconds into the video)
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 11:19 am
by MARSAUTOSIREN
Man I wish our collages did that. I would be there at every game.
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 12:46 pm
by TboltTX1
I didn't know about that one. There is one, however on their radio tower and it can be seen from 45. I believe it is a 2804.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4800+Calh ... 4,,2,-6.78
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 12:52 pm
by siren_face2000
love how it does a single cycle of wail, and when it's finished, it goes to wail again, but it sounds at the end like a cop is stopping their siren
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:20 pm
by Nicktendious
Well, the siren is operated by a student group at the University of Houston (who were probably taught how to activate the siren and shut it off) called "The Frontiersmen".
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:06 pm
by Travis
That's pretty cool. NASA has a ton of those on property. Well they did last time I was there, but that was 1998.
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:44 pm
by Nicktendious
They still do! I live in El Lago and my dad works there so I would know!
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 4:02 am
by Ziginox
MARSAUTOSIREN wrote:Man I wish our collages did that. I would be there at every game.
Our high school uses a SelecTone for the end of quarter and such
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 12:12 pm
by TboltTX1
SirenkiD wrote:That's pretty cool. NASA has a ton of those on property. Well they did last time I was there, but that was 1998.
When I took NASA's shuttle tour around the property I counted 5 sirens but they were very small, no larger than three cells. NASA is very strict on security, there is no way to get any pictures of them exept by zooming in from the perimeter fence. They won't even let you take pictures during the shuttle tour.
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:55 pm
by MARSAUTOSIREN
Kasm279 wrote:MARSAUTOSIREN wrote:Man I wish our collages did that. I would be there at every game.
Our high school uses a SelecTone for the end of quarter and such
Yeah, our scoreboards to. Yours use yelp?