500 AT fan wrote:The sirens must be on strike.
Quite the cruel April Fools Joke these sirens are playing on us enthusiasts..
After talking with C.D. comm officer, I was able to get some questions answered, well except why that one Thunderbolt 1000T is so high pitched. I gotta get back to him on that.
I finally obtained a list of all the specific siren locations on the island. Time to take pictures.
I will soon be surrounded by Modulators & DSAs. A MOD6024 will soon echo in my valley, a DSA by the beach about 1/2 a mile away will alert swimmers, and another MOD6024 will cover those nice hilltop houses.
The old electromechanical sirens like the STH/STL-10s, 2t22s, Thunderbolts, Thunderbeams, and SD-10s don't get scrapped, but rather are "organ donors" when they are replaced by a Modulator/DSA. Their good internal/external parts are either used to fix our current electromechanicals, or sent to other places that need a siren or spare mechanical siren parts like outer island areas and California. Looks like I will not be getting an electromechanical siren from CD anytime soon, but at least I know they're not just being thrown away/shredded.
All newer sirens are to be voice capable/solar powered by the time all the older electromechanicals go out to other places. EOWS 612's and EOWS 1212's are disabled from being voice capable due to CB radio actually being voiced over the siren.
We are apparently getting ASC i-Force sirens soon. A first for Hawaii.
ATI has clearly disappointed CD here during their siren audition with their malfunctioning amplifiers and exposed wiring
Some of the siren malfunctions here are due to geckos crawling around in the control boxes and short circuiting electronic components/relays, such as the Thunderbolt 1000T that went off in 2006 in the middle of November.
