The Siren Board

We installed a refurbished yellow Vortex R-4 in Miller, MO earlier this year.

Stormsetter4 wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 15, 2020 10:08 pm

We installed a refurbished yellow Vortex R-4 in Miller, MO earlier this year.

Woah! That’s wicked! I love it!

Cannon beach: There is a video for these sirens operating in an ambience, they play sounds of cow mooing to signal it is a test.
Here is the link:
https://youtu.be/E52UHuPsytY

BenjaminP50 wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 16, 2020 9:05 pm

Cannon beach: There is a video for these sirens operating in an ambience, they play sounds of cow mooing to signal it is a test.
Here is the link:
https://youtu.be/E52UHuPsytY

I thought that was fake at first! It turns out there's a bunch of videos of this whelen "moo" tone. They don't really need to say it's a test a million times, I don't know of anybody who would think otherwise.

Bumping this because I just found something quite interesting... Cannon Beach, OR

championsiren wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 11, 2021 2:14 pm

Bumping this because I just found something quite interesting... Cannon Beach, OR

I looked on Google Maps and it appears that the 2805 is still there! If you go back to 2013 street view, you can clearly see the green paintwork!
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.8777662 ... 312!8i6656

CD_Siren wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 11, 2021 3:35 pm

championsiren wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 11, 2021 2:14 pm

Bumping this because I just found something quite interesting... Cannon Beach, OR

I looked on Google Maps and it appears that the 2805 is still there! If you go back to 2013 street view, you can clearly see the green paintwork!
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.8777662 ... 312!8i6656

That Whelen is a 2750 and the 2805 you see on streetview is ex-UCD and replaced it

10V2T wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 11, 2021 3:48 pm

CD_Siren wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 11, 2021 3:35 pm

I looked on Google Maps and it appears that the 2805 is still there! If you go back to 2013 street view, you can clearly see the green paintwork!
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.8777662 ... 312!8i6656

That Whelen is a 2750 and the 2805 you see on streetview is ex-UCD and replaced it

Well, that's unfortunate. I'd ask where it went but I doubt anyone knows.

Here's the thing, these were likely custom jobs by the installer or municipality. I've never seen anything suggesting you can order Whelens from the factory in anything aside from the standard colors, and considering how the older units are starting to fade or show the original coloring underneath, it's very likely that these were custom painted units by either the installer or municipality. Such is the case with the SWS 4004 in Deerfield Township or the TRAS Unit in Missouri.

both of the whelens from the trojan nuclear power plant were rattlecanned brown after they were recieved. where the paint has worn away the original grey paint is still there. same goes for the green whelens. I am 99.9% certain they didn't come from the factory like that.