I made most of these a few years ago, but here's the maps I have: Franklin County, Ohio: Based on actual locations of older sirens I found on here, I made a fantasy map of my home county if it had stuck with Federal Signal and kept its Thunderbolts and other old sirens. https://www.google.com/maps/d...

It's been a while since I've been on here but I've been sick for the past few days so I came back and saw this. Anyways here's my submission (LMK if the link doesn't work): https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1l8Mbkza_s_ybpdysLq54FO6SBSji2X8&usp=sharing Story: In 2017, the city of Conway put ...

Here’s a photo of a Franklin County Whelen at sunset. It’s a bit blurry but I think it’s alright.

Maybe up close this is true, but at a distance, since omnidirectional sirens broadcast in all directions, you’ll be hearing more than one siren doing voice, causing distortion from the slight timing differences. Rotating sirens solve this issue since they all rotate the same direction, eliminating t...

Brief Whelen Controller history... The Whelen "Electronic Siren Controller", or ESC, started production with the introduction of their first Outdoor Warning Sirens in the '70s, the WS-1000 series. The controller shipped with these was analog, which means they featured older, adjustable co...

They discontinued voice testing due to complaints from citizens about the poor clarity of the announcements. This happened in early 2019 if I remember correctly. When the pandemic began, they stopped all testing for a few weeks, then had a very glitchy activation for a tornado warning. Im not sure w...

http://www.jmarcoz.com/sirens/sirenarchive.htm

This site has a lot of old photos of various sirens. Perhaps this is what you're referring to?

Very obvious they’re trying to save money. But opt-in phone alerts are definitely not effective. Most people aren’t weather and technologically aware, so they will be left with no warning of a tornado strikes. Also, those alerts work the same as texting, meaning if a phone is silent or turned off, y...

This Whelen Vortex was painted in CD yellow:

According to the wiki, the 10V began production in 1981, and I assume the 10V2T would come after. I've seen news articles and videos call 2001's and other new sirens "WWII and Cold War era technology", usually to prove that sirens are ineffective in general. They're not wrong in the sense ...