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Posted: 7/24/2014 4:50:43 PM EDT

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The first time I heard that I'd be looking for zombies.

Or aliens.

Or alien zombies..........

Posted: 7/24/2014 4:53:33 PM EDT

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I guess Jimi Hendrix is alive and well in Chicago.

Posted: 7/24/2014 4:54:57 PM EDT

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I'm glad i'm not the only one......

Posted: 7/24/2014 4:55:37 PM EDT

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That's the kind that makes neighborhood dogs howl in unison.

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This is now a warning siren thread?

Heres the one in my home town. It's about a 1/4 mile from my house, goes off at noon and 9pm everyday. And is used by the fire dept also.
I grew up with this sound and love it.

I videoed it for posterity before some fuck head gets it shut down one day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyhYn5V-uT0

Sounds like ours where I live only ever heard it once.

That's the kind that makes neighborhood dogs howl in unison.

And the local coyotes.

Posted: 7/24/2014 5:04:28 PM EDT

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Norks used to blast crap like that across the DMZ on foggy mornings. Really fucked up that whole "Land of the Morning Calm" claim..

Posted: 7/24/2014 5:07:21 PM EDT

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I would just start shooting at everything that moved if I heard that sound

Posted: 7/24/2014 5:14:47 PM EDT

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Go home tornado siren, you're drunk

Posted: 7/24/2014 5:21:04 PM EDT

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Posted: 7/24/2014 5:27:17 PM EDT

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Federal Signal EOWS-612 running in Alternate Wail

Posted: 7/24/2014 5:28:53 PM EDT

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That would make for an awesome car alarm.

Posted: 7/24/2014 5:32:27 PM EDT

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Fuck the Communist State of Illinois and it's HQ of Chicago.

Posted: 7/24/2014 5:47:14 PM EDT

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This thread needs moar Chrysler Hemi powered sirens.

Posted: 7/24/2014 5:51:55 PM EDT

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It's kind of hard to tell with the lowered visibility, but that looks like it's just outside of Chinatown, around 18th & Clark, over by the Chicago Police HQ.

Posted: 7/24/2014 5:54:46 PM EDT

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Holy crap...I might pop pmag covers if I heard that broadcast.

Although maybe in Chicago you can;t have pmags, I don't know.

Posted: 7/24/2014 6:04:40 PM EDT

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Holy crap...I might pop pmag covers if I heard that broadcast.

Although maybe in Chicago you can;t have pmags, I don't know.

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Technically, you probably could, if you put it in an AR-15 pistol. But that would have to be settled in court.

Posted: 7/24/2014 6:12:04 PM EDT

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I NEED this.

badly.

Posted: 7/24/2014 6:26:04 PM EDT

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Needs moar Chrysler Victory Siren:

The Hemi V8 powered siren is said to be audible for nearly 25 miles when running at full RPM. These were installed as air raid sirens in New York and other large cities.

Posted: 7/24/2014 6:26:47 PM EDT

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How would you like to have this guy as a neighbor?
[youtube]http://youtu.be/uolRIiXNGjw[/youtube]
Note to self: new hobby for new neighbors to endure and/or leave because of...

ETA: My embedding sucks.

Posted: 7/24/2014 6:31:15 PM EDT

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The sirens at the oil and gas refineries around here are creepy as hell too. 1st Wednesday of every month at noon sounds like Armageddon.

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Kenner.. or farther down

Posted: 7/24/2014 6:35:45 PM EDT

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How would you like to have this guy as a neighbor?

http://youtu.be/uolRIiXNGjw
Note to self: new hobby for new neighbors to endure and/or leave because of...

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Posted: 7/24/2014 7:15:48 PM EDT

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Wheres the Chrysler 413 powered siren?

Posted: 7/24/2014 7:48:52 PM EDT

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Most people won't experience this but, I currently work testing fire alarms in schools. The very last thing we do is actully set it off and check the strobes and horns.
Most times it's just loud and annoying but some schools with older systems can be quite eerie. I remember one elementry school with older horns, gave me the creeps as the hallways were very dark, even on a bright sunny day. But being alone with it going off. It just reminds me of resident evil or any movie with some kind of containment failure.

Posted: 7/24/2014 7:57:03 PM EDT

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For some reason this thread reminded me of the time a volunteer firefighter passed me at 75MPH or so on a back road with his head stuck out the wondow yelling WEEEEEWAAAAA WEEEWAAA WEEEEWAAAA.

haha

Posted: 7/24/2014 8:03:22 PM EDT

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This thread needs moar Chrysler Hemi powered sirens.

My first thought as well. WAKE UP MOTHERF^CKERS!!!!

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Most people won't experience this but, I currently work testing fire alarms in schools. The very last thing we do is actully set it off and check the strobes and horns.
Most times it's just loud and annoying but some schools with older systems can be quite eerie. I remember one elementry school with older horns, gave me the creeps as the hallways were very dark, even on a bright sunny day. But being alone with it going off. It just reminds me of resident evil or any movie with some kind of containment failure.

Our warning siren was this weird wail that echoed through the halls. Back in the cold war period it was some nerve jarring stuff.

Posted: 7/24/2014 8:10:43 PM EDT

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Sounds like a lot of echo and one of those old Cold War sirens that rotates at about 4 or 5 rpm. We had one of those sirens where I grew up and even with no tall buildings to echo off of it sounded like that. With the echo from the buildings I'm sure it added to the rising and fading of the sound level, plus the high/low tones added in.

I know the first time I heard the one back home I was taken aback over how it sounded.

eta: That was a Federal Signals Thunderbolt model siren. Here's a couple of videos showing how it rotates and the different type of tones.

eta again. first vid won't play embedded, so here's I-potato link to see it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoAznrsESGI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFTfkWljtOo

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LIGHTING LIGHTING. LIGHTING

Posted: 7/24/2014 8:20:42 PM EDT

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Meh.

These newfangled bee-boop-dee-bop-whoop noise-makers make annoying noises - but don't scream "WARNING!!!" to me like the Federal Thunderbolt 1000 series in Alert or Attack mode. Growing up in the Cold War days probably has a bit to do with that.

Posted: 7/24/2014 8:25:45 PM EDT

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You have t heard Erie or creepy until you've heard a Federal Signal Thunderbolt 1003 in action while it is storming all around you

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2Qg0SpF5eY

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Where I grew up, there were several sirens like this within earshot of the house, and one close by (the round kind with a cone on top). Usually we would hear the distant sirens before the closer one would go off. That made the "calm before the storm" incredibly unnerving.

Posted: 7/24/2014 9:26:40 PM EDT

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How would you like to have this guy as a neighbor?

http://youtu.be/uolRIiXNGjw
Note to self: new hobby for new neighbors to endure and/or leave because of...

ETA: My embedding sucks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uolRIiXNGjw

I grew up with one of these about 20 feet from my bedroom window. VFDs on Long Island use(d) them for fire call outs.

As an adult, I have yet to find an alarm clock that will reliably wake me up. I wonder why.

Posted: 7/24/2014 9:34:51 PM EDT

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Our new sirens here in KS are digital and you can play whatever you want over them.

We talk on ours in loud-speaker mode to notify of tests.

Very big-brotherish.

Posted: 7/24/2014 10:45:26 PM EDT

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Sounds like the soundtrack to a nightmare.

Posted: 7/24/2014 10:57:00 PM EDT

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I had my speakers turned up. Dogs came off the floor and barking WTF.

Out they go till they settle down.

Posted: 7/24/2014 11:03:25 PM EDT

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I'm guessing the point of sirens like this is to make sure it doesn't get lost in other noises. For instance, if you're near the edge of the effective range, one steady tone could be masked by the hum of your microwave if it's the same pitch, whereas a "creepy" one like this will sound markedly different from any one background tone.