The Siren Board

The Netherlands is planning on phasing out their national siren system by 2017 according to the Ministry of Security and Justice.

http://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/binnenla ... n-de-maand

Several European nations have nationwide siren systems. Sweden has a horn/diaphone system.

They also have mechanical and electronic sirens as well; the air horns are being replaced by them (I think, well, that's what my best German translation skills told me)

Fletch wrote:Several European nations have nationwide siren systems. Sweden has a horn/diaphone system.

Except Germany...
You can find nationwide systems in Switzerland (7800 sirens, if I remember right), the KTG's (pneumatic), the Landert MSL-3/6 (mechanical) and the ET751 (old electronic siren of Kockum Sonic) and other old sirens are/will be replaced with electronic sirens from Sonnenburg with SES 750/1000/2000 and Kockum Sonics Delta 4/6/8. The newer sirens sound so ... ugly... The test every first Wednesday in February between 13.30-14.15 with "Allgemeiner Alarm" = Wail. In Canton Ticino they also test between 14.15-15.00 "Wasseralarm" = flood alarm. Flood alarm are 12 deep tones with 20 sec duration and 10 sec pauses between it.
Austria has 8200 sirens, most of them are mechanical. They test every saturday at Noon with "Probe"=Test (15 sec.) At the first saturday in October they do a big nationwide siren test. The first signal is "Probe" (15 sec.). The second signal is "Warnung" = like full alert ( 3 min.) . The third is "Alarm" = Wail. The last signal is "Entwarnung" = all clear.
France does also have a nationwide system. They test every Monday or Wednesday in month with Wail. I don't know anymore, if it was Wednesday or Monday... :/
Danmark does have a systems of Whelen's. In the siren wiki is an article about it, so I needn't to tell about it.
In Finland are sirens. Most of them are Teho-Ulvo or Instoma sirens. Both are electronic. But in Turku is a Hörmann F71! It's still active! Look here for pictures: http://hochleistungssirene.de/index.php ... =406&pic=1
In Oulu were also 2 Pintsch-Bamag Anlage 1. Both are already dismantled in 2007 and 2009.
In Rauma has also been a F71, it's gone between 2011-2012 according to Street View.
The Netherland has a system of Modulators, tested every first Monday at 12.00 with "luchtalarm". Sounds very funny. I don't know, what that means and WHY it sounds like that...

Greets from Germany

E57 wrote:

Fletch wrote:Several European nations have nationwide siren systems. Sweden has a horn/diaphone system.

Except Germany...
You can find nationwide systems in Switzerland (7800 sirens, if I remember right), the KTG's (pneumatic), the Landert MSL-3/6 (mechanical) and the ET751 (old electronic siren of Kockum Sonic) and other old sirens are/will be replaced with electronic sirens from Sonnenburg with SES 750/1000/2000 and Kockum Sonics Delta 4/6/8. The newer sirens sound so ... ugly... The test every first Wednesday in February between 13.30-14.15 with "Allgemeiner Alarm" = Wail. In Canton Ticino they also test between 14.15-15.00 "Wasseralarm" = flood alarm. Flood alarm are 12 deep tones with 20 sec duration and 10 sec pauses between it.
Austria has 8200 sirens, most of them are mechanical. They test every saturday at Noon with "Probe"=Test (15 sec.) At the first saturday they do a big nationwide siren test. The first signal is "Probe" (15 sec.). The second signal is "Warnung" = like full alert ( 3 min.) . The third is "Alarm" = Wail. The last signal is "Entwarnung" = all clear.
France does also have a nationwide system. They test every Monday or Wednesday in month with Wail. I don't know anymore, if it was Wednesday or Monday... :/
Danmark does have a systems of Whelen's. In the siren wiki is an article about it, so I needn't to tell about it.
In Finland are sirens. Most of them are Teho-Ulvo or Instoma sirens. Both are electronic. But in Turku is a Hörmann F71! It's still active! Look here for pictures: http://hochleistungssirene.de/index.php ... =406&pic=1
In Oulu were also 2 Pintsch-Bamag Anlage 1. Both are already dismantled in 2007 and 2009.
In Rauma has also been a F71, it's gone between 2001-2012 according to Street View.
The Netherland has a system of Modulators, tested every first Monday at 12.00 with "luchtalarm". Sounds very funny. I don't know, what that means and WHY it sounds like that...

Greets from Germany

In France the sirens are tested every first wednesday of the month at noon.

Darley Champion wrote:

E57 wrote:

Fletch wrote:Several European nations have nationwide siren systems. Sweden has a horn/diaphone system.

Except Germany...
You can find nationwide systems in Switzerland (7800 sirens, if I remember right), the KTG's (pneumatic), the Landert MSL-3/6 (mechanical) and the ET751 (old electronic siren of Kockum Sonic) and other old sirens are/will be replaced with electronic sirens from Sonnenburg with SES 750/1000/2000 and Kockum Sonics Delta 4/6/8. The newer sirens sound so ... ugly... The test every first Wednesday in February between 13.30-14.15 with "Allgemeiner Alarm" = Wail. In Canton Ticino they also test between 14.15-15.00 "Wasseralarm" = flood alarm. Flood alarm are 12 deep tones with 20 sec duration and 10 sec pauses between it.
Austria has 8200 sirens, most of them are mechanical. They test every saturday at Noon with "Probe"=Test (15 sec.) At the first saturday they do a big nationwide siren test. The first signal is "Probe" (15 sec.). The second signal is "Warnung" = like full alert ( 3 min.) . The third is "Alarm" = Wail. The last signal is "Entwarnung" = all clear.
France does also have a nationwide system. They test every Monday or Wednesday in month with Wail. I don't know anymore, if it was Wednesday or Monday... :/
Danmark does have a systems of Whelen's. In the siren wiki is an article about it, so I needn't to tell about it.
In Finland are sirens. Most of them are Teho-Ulvo or Instoma sirens. Both are electronic. But in Turku is a Hörmann F71! It's still active! Look here for pictures: http://hochleistungssirene.de/index.php ... =406&pic=1
In Oulu were also 2 Pintsch-Bamag Anlage 1. Both are already dismantled in 2007 and 2009.
In Rauma has also been a F71, it's gone between 2001-2012 according to Street View.
The Netherland has a system of Modulators, tested every first Monday at 12.00 with "luchtalarm". Sounds very funny. I don't know, what that means and WHY it sounds like that...

Greets from Germany

In France the sirens are tested every first wednesday of the month at noon.

Thanks! Here is a video of a French siren during the testhttps://youtu.be/ZduE8Mt5UP8

Poland has a lot of sirens, mostly for fire use. I don't believe Portugal has a national system, but many fire departments still use them. Theirs are often 2nd-interval sirens like this one:

https://youtu.be/vCChglXYHno

IIRC, isn't the Netherlands the European country with a system of Modulator 2008s? Or at least Modulators in general?

freebrickproductions wrote:IIRC, isn't the Netherlands the European country with a system of Modulator 2008s? Or at least Modulators in general?

Yes.
They have also Modulator 1004's. I think I can remember that hey have also 3012, but I'm not sure if they have 3012.

Latvia installed a number of 2001's.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VABLNe44I08