intresting, tho, today is the first wednesday (the day im replying this), so as you might expect i filmed a siren, and thats right... i filmed the Videauban siren, FINALLY. and, i was decieved in some way but it was nice, it does not look like the Xonrupt one AT ALL. tho, its still a mystery siren. its 8 ports, just only 4 horns, and luckily i caught the rotor rotating too thanks to one of these holes, so i guess thats a plus. so i guess the Xonrupt siren mystery lives on. but still, i got quite a nice video of the Videauban one, IF ONLY IT DIDNT SOUND OFF 3 MINUTES EARLY. because of it sounding off 3 minutes early, i didnt catch the startup, but i immediatly started filming as soon as i could, and i got 95% of the test, just missing the startup. i usually start filming two minutes before noon to not miss the siren in case it sounds off early, but looks like i got ruined by this one, looks like ill be starting to film at 11:56 now instead of 11:58 in case a siren does it again. and, i am still wondering if the Xonrupt siren has a cover on the ports, or if its just a actual 4 horn siren, the Videauban one is just a 8 port siren with only 4 horns and thats kind of it, but still unknown brand. and finally, here are two links :Darley Champion wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 1:59 amHey.. I've been kept busy by real life's usual shenanigans (long story) but of all the locations you posted.. (besides Verneuil where I'm still fuming that it got replaced...) I haven't been able to open the links (currently away from my computer + my phone doesn't seem to like Google Maps links, whatever)..
So the Airbus hangar thing, I can sorta guess it had to do with clearing the runway, they'd probably sound off the siren to let personnel on-site know that they must stay off the runway.. Something like that I'd presume?
The fire station one, it reminds me of that one SDIS 60 station I spotted in Liancourt/Mogneville they also have a similar tower mast and they have a siren on top that I'm not quite sure if it's a Cicca, I just thought about it. Liancourt has two sirens, one on a tower block (which is only visible from a distance, in person) that also seems to be dormant, and the fire station one.
(there's also Precy-sur-Oise's fire station, but they have a Demay R3P which seems to be dormant as well).
There's PROBABLY a Cicca hiding in Nogent-sur-Oise, on the grounds of the old Howden BC facility, I've seen it in person, it's the smaller kind of Ciccas/Chollet with the conica hat and the horn less rotor.. Although the building it's on has a diesel generator in it, so I think it may be a exhaust vent.. Since it's directly on the inner courtyard of the facility it's obviously not visible, in person I had to stand a bit far away to even catch a glimpse of the siren (?).
Although it's on a private property, so it's inaccessible, but I got some pictures of it when I was working there briefly (formation), so gimme a couple of weeks to find it on my hard drives and perhaps we could take a crack at identifying it.
first is a link to the location of the Xonrupt siren on the julien boller siren map, since i noticied he put some photos never seen before on it, so here : https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mi ... 40103&z=20
and second is the youtube video of the Videauban siren test which is here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uy3KOlyToc
thats kind of all i have to say, tho, i will go ahead and try to see the Liancourt/Mogneville fire station tower to see if they do have a CICCA on top or just a generic siren.
EDIT : probably a generic siren, on google street view, it looks like a average siren, tho, when i mean fire station tower like with the one with the CICCA, i actually mean a real tower, like, they have a whole tower just for themselves. tho, if you want to see that google street view for yourself then here https://www.google.fr/maps/@49.3240358, ... &entry=ttu