The Siren Board

Well, the Milwaukee County Siren drought is finally over. Today at noon, for the first time in almost 7 months, the County EM office saw fit to test the siren system. I recorded the ACA P-50 at Greenfield Park in West Allis, WI. They only tested a 1 minute alert. There's usually a minute of attack as well, but not today. As long as I've been watitng, I'll take what I can get.

Here's the test as recorded on my Canon PowerShot A530:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4aJLxkeYYs

I also recorded it using a Sony Digital 8 Handycam, but that will be uploaded later.

You can also hear this siren wind up at the beginning of Archon's Model 2T video.

Simply awesome, great video. I look forward to watching the other one.

I wonder if anyone on this board has one of these in their collections, since they'd be nearly impossible to move/relocate without a crane.

AWESOME! P-50s rock! Thanks for recording. This video goves you a good idea of how loud they really are. Good to see it still works!

Excellent video!

500 AT fan wrote:AWESOME! P-50s rock! Thanks for recording. This video goves you a good idea of how loud they really are. Good to see it still works!

Quite so, peaking out the video recorders microphone nicely.

md5 wrote:

500 AT fan wrote:AWESOME! P-50s rock! Thanks for recording. This video goves you a good idea of how loud they really are. Good to see it still works!

Quite so, peaking out the video recorders microphone nicely.

Not to mention my eardrums!

Very nice! I can't wait to see it on the other camera.

This video inspired me to look through all of the sirens in Wisconsin on the Siren Archive...I got most of the way through before I had to take a break. I noticed that while the state has a lot of Thunderbolts, it also has an awful lot of ACA/ASC sirens, including what seems to me to be one of the largest concentrations of P-50s in the U.S. Any explanations for this?

CTsirenhunter wrote:This video inspired me to look through all of the sirens in Wisconsin on the Siren Archive...I got most of the way through before I had to take a break. I noticed that while the state has a lot of Thunderbolts, it also has an awful lot of ACA/ASC sirens, including what seems to me to be one of the largest concentrations of P-50s in the U.S. Any explanations for this?

It's probably because ASC's headquarters are in Wisconsin.

ver tum wrote:

CTsirenhunter wrote:This video inspired me to look through all of the sirens in Wisconsin on the Siren Archive...I got most of the way through before I had to take a break. I noticed that while the state has a lot of Thunderbolts, it also has an awful lot of ACA/ASC sirens, including what seems to me to be one of the largest concentrations of P-50s in the U.S. Any explanations for this?

It's probably because ASC's headquarters are in Wisconsin.

Yep, they are located in Milwaukee.
The whole current siren system in Milwaukee County is made up of ACA/ASC products. Before ASC added all the P-50's and Allertors that mostly make up the city of Milwaukee's system, there were lots of Model 2's, probably hundreds of them. There are still a few of them around, unused. Other municipalities in Milwaukee County such as West Allis had old, non-rotating Allertors and Mobile Directos, which have since been replaced with newer ACA or ASC products. The city of Wauwatosa, where I live, used to have Model 2's and an Allertor. A P-50 was added in the 1980's, and the Allertor removed in the late 1990's. There is still one of the old Model 2's around. Kenosha county has mostly ACA (P-50's). Waukesha and Racine counties have a lot of ACA/ASC products around as well. Federal has probably the strongest presence overall outside these areas, though.