north dakota siren hunt.

[thunderbeam63]

As I was coming back from buying some pumpkins I decided to take a quick siren hunt out to velva,sawyer,and then to logan and back again.the trip to Velva was great,short but great.so as I was driving along I happened to see out of the corner of my eye,another yellow SD-10.so I carefully walked up to it,putting my earplugs in(safety first )and asked myself "why are there lights on the control box?"so I got back in the car and off I went.the trip to sawyer was FREAKIN AWESOME because I saw a darley champion As I was looking at it I noticed that the vent thing was loose so I had to go tell the fire chief what the problem was,the minute I stepped in the building I heard a loud *clang*and the fire chief was already at the scene I told him what was happening to the siren.ya'know what he said,he said "oh we need another spare."he comes back out with a new one,picks up the old one and starts walking to the dumpster and thats when my senses kicked in and I said ''um could I perhaps...have that?"he said"sure take the thing I dont need it." so I drove of with the thing and continued to Logan,there I wasn't very lucky as there was no siren .And so ends this really long story,I hope you enjoyed this story

[Daniel]

What thing did he give you?

[Robert Gift]

...As I was looking at it I noticed that the vent thing was loose so I had to go tell the fire chief what the problem was,the minute I stepped in the building I heard a loud *clang*and the fire chief was already at the scene I told him what was happening to the siren.ya'know what he said,he said "oh we need another spare."he comes back out with a new one,picks up the old one and starts walking to the dumpster and thats when my senses kicked in and I said ''um could I perhaps...have that?"he said"sure take the thing I dont need it."

I'm not familiar with many sirens.
What is the vent thing?

What did he give to you?

Thank you,

[thunderbeam63]

its that silver thing that I think is the intake cone.
could someone please tell me what those light beacons on the SD-10's control box were for.

[Gil]

Bull****

[thunderbeam63]

whoops, it was a sterling model M ,probably modified,with the intake cone.but I'm serios I have the thing.

[2001srnfan]

Probably no camera, no relatives or friends with a camera, no sketch pad and no common sense.

[Daniel]

Light beacons? That one's easy -- one of the things that got Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sent to the electric chair for espionage was that, while working for Federal Sign and Signal Co., engineer Julius Rosenberg designed control boxes with an innocent-looking indicator lamp so that city public works people would know that the box had power. What nobody know except high authorities in the Kremlin was that the particular shade of red on the lights served as a beacon for infrared receivers on the nosecones of Soviet nuclear missiles, allowing the incoming missile to home in directly on the siren sites. The siren would be obliterated, and people would have lost several milliseconds in trying to get into their bomb shelters. I think they also sold Thunderbolt plans to somebody in the Krushchev government, which quickly fabricated some CommieBolts painted with a red hammer 'n sickle on the horn and put them on the pinnacle of Spasskaya Tower, right under the glowing red star. The locals called it the "Devil's Balalaika." Hope you like my story.

Seriously, next thing you know, that huge cow statue along I-90 near Bismark will have a Thunderbolt coming out of its . . . uh, tail.

[jerrylovessirens]

Pictures or scanned drawings would be appreciated for the common good of us all here.

[thunderbeam63]

since my computer sucks you got to go to the siren archive,go to north dakota,go to dickonson and look at the last picture.that vent thingy in the front is what fell off.