Anyone like q sirens? Found some vids of EQ2b sirens!!!

[q2bman]

I found a few vids with fire engines in Chicago using the new electronic model Q siren. Nice sound for electronic. Sounds like they have sampled the siren sound. You can tell its electronic in one video cause it abruptly ends without a wind down! Not to shabby allthough the old model Q is most likely louder!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4t3SNMJf7A0& ... e%20engine

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9c_tlnH1frs& ... e%20engine


http://youtube.com/watch?v=VJdiOk-Sw_U& ... e%20engine

[JasonC]

Wow, I'm so lucky to have never heard one of those in person! They sound AWFUL! Those sirens are nothing more than basically a PA300 with a DSP chip producing the "Q" sound. The E-Q2b sirens have: (electronic) air horn, (Q) Manual, (Q) Wail, and (electronic) Yelp. People just need to stick with the real Q and seperate electronic siren!

[Shinkansen]

No replacing a real Q but it sounds like it. I like it.

[SoundOff]

It is hard to tell the difference in when the siren is wailing but the start up has a raspy tone to it that give away the fact that it's electronic vs the smooth wind up of a mechanical Q

I've seen a EQ2B on a fire truck from I think it was West Covina. I was over at the Diamond Bar City hall while they were having a fire fighter's meeting and there were apparatus from several neighboring cities parked in the lot. I noticed one of the Qs looked flatter than normal (it was mounted to the front bumper) so I walked up and peeked through the grill. Instead of the chopper, they had a BP200 speaker behind the grill http://www.fedsig.com/products/index.php?id=120 The controller knob itself was mounted on the center console in the cab.

One fire fighter who was walking by saw me looking and said "Oh, that's the new electronic siren but we still prefer the mechanical "growlers"

I didn't get a chance to hear it in person since all of them left with only airhorns blasting but no sirens.

BTW, I wonder if the entire Chicago Fire Department has EQ2Bs. I can't see the controls because there's a boot in the way but it does do the wind up and down all by itself.

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

[Jim_Ferer]

There's some ambulances on Cape Cod (Orleans, for one town) that have EQ's. I was impressed.

My favorite mechanical vehicle siren was always the Sterling 30. I thought the Q sounded shrill by comparison. I'd love to see the 30 sampled for an electronic.

[SoundOff]

Mechanical Q from Long Beach. Compare it to the the Chicago Ladder 29 I posted earlier. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIVsQG-yCKU

Laying on the Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h30TPeUjYW0


Edit:
You can listen to the sirens tones here http://www.fedsig.com/multimedia/sirens/?id=107

If you press "Air Horn" I heard it is supposed to mimick a Grover Stuttertone

[ermaff6231]

i really like the e-q2b better than the whelen version which sounds sick

[quiksmith10]

The medic units here in Adams County run with electronic Q's. When you hear them from afar, you confuse them with the electromechanical Q's. They do sound slightly off from an actual Q though but Federal did a good job reproducing the true Q sound.

[loudmouth]

lisen to this Q you can hear near the end the co pilot Revs the siren to full then turns the siren down like theres a brake on the Q i have heard them do this befor but i though it was just some thing wrong with the siren..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTU40kLK ... responding[/list]

[q2bman]

i found one yelping!!! nice. (still like the mechanical 8) )