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Re: Cincinnati Metropolitan Area Sirens

Thu Jun 11, 2020 10:08 am

I’m sorry, Cheviot fire station? They’ve only had the Werden P-127 on top of their fire station/city hall, and before that, a Thunderbolt on top of the elementary school. Perhaps you meant the Westwood fire station at Junietta & Epworth?
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Thu Jun 11, 2020 12:54 pm

Oh really? I thought that was in Cheviot, sorry my bad. Since Google just calls everything Cincy it’s hard to tell. But yes it was that station at that intersection.
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Fri Jul 03, 2020 3:43 am

Was in Amelia at the 4/5 port off of Jenny Lind this month.

From what I had heard in the distance after the Thunderbolt wound down (a slow deep in pitch dual tone wind down), and comparing it to the audio recording I got of the Hamlet EOWS*1212 in January, it sounds like the EOWS worked perfectly fine this test; once I get my new audio recorder in (long story short this past Friday my current one was stolen while I had it on the other side of Washington Court House for their siren test) I hope to place it at the 1212 next month to confirm that, unless I wind up just going there myself for a video and hoping it works.

I will be back up in Northeast Ohio (where I’m originally from prior to moving down here) as of August 24 when I begin college at The University of Akron studying Emergency Management & Homeland Security; so likely won’t be back in the Cincinnati area until around November.

That’s all I have to report for now.
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Sat Jul 04, 2020 12:01 am

What did HamCo do for their monthly test this time around?
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Re: Cincinnati Metropolitan Area Sirens

Sat Jul 04, 2020 12:22 am

nvanw27 wrote:
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What did HamCo do for their monthly test this time around?
Nothing special from what I was able to tell. It was a pretty typical test.
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Re: Cincinnati Metropolitan Area Sirens

Sat Jul 04, 2020 8:01 pm

I thought I missed it at first... they started two minutes late, usually it's right at noon.

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Mon Jul 06, 2020 1:20 am

idk if this counts as part of the Cincinnati metro but Clinton County did a really strange test yesterday, and did 6 1 minute alerts instead of the usual 3. i was at one of the Adams Township 10Vs, so i didnt hear what any of the whelens did.
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Re: Cincinnati Metropolitan Area Sirens

Tue Jul 07, 2020 1:26 am

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Mon Jul 06, 2020 1:20 am
idk if this counts as part of the Cincinnati metro but Clinton County did a really strange test yesterday, and did 6 1 minute alerts instead of the usual 3. i was at one of the Adams Township 10Vs, so i didnt hear what any of the whelens did.
Clinton County is included in the Greater Cincinnati Metro Area, so we can discuss it in this thread. The Sentrys likely did what they usually do, except twice. For some odd reason, Clinton County tested two times in a row on Saturday. I can hear Wilmington's Whelens from my house, and they did what they were supposed to do, except twice as well. At the very end of the test, I heard the cancel tones go out over my scanner, and then another set of tones. Thought it sounded different. Suddenly, the sirens activated again for a second round. I think they may have done it intentionally because they should have the test set up as a call-key and not manual activation. Maybe they tested them twice trying to find an issue?
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Re: Cincinnati Metropolitan Area Sirens

Mon Jul 20, 2020 10:18 pm

FYI- Hamilton County is making some upgrades to the system over the next few weeks:

https://www.wvxu.org/post/hamilton-coun ... s#stream/0
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Mon Jul 20, 2020 11:08 pm

From how it's worded it sounds like they are adding more zones to the mix as well as adding security.
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