I made some last year but I plan to record a different siren site this time. Still deciding which site I want to record.

This years test of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station's Community Alert Sirens will take place on Wednesday October 20, 2010. Three alert signals will be sounded between 10 am and Noon. A test of the PA/Voice system will follow afterward for sirens near beaches and tourist areas Sirens will b...

A while back, one member (don't remember his name) talked about mounting 120 Whelen WPS-3016s in an array on a similar tall tower mentioning that the advantage would be having one large centrally located siren unit covering an entire city. I made a drawing on paper based on his description (which I ...

Try NAPA for 6 volt starting batteries. Both Danny who owns the Chrysler at the American Military Museum and my neighbor up the street who has a 1928 Model A found 6 volt batteries there.

Last weekend, my mother and I joined a "Chinese bus tour" to visit San Diego. We passed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) on the way and I decided to try and capture the Thunderbolt on the pole just north of the plant buildings. It was hard to photograph something stationary ou...

One of the shows in the Disney Afternoon series (see the thread I posted in General Discussion) was called TailSpin which featured some characters from Disney's animated film The Jungle Book. In one of the episodes (titled The Sound and The Furry), Baloo is in a competition where he has to pilot his...

I had thought about going to the Regan museum today but also decided to stop bykx250rider's place first for his last-Friday-of-the-month siren test of the Thunderbolt. Anyway, seeing how we also had the bare model-5 and since it was just sitting at the side of the house next to the electrical meter,...

Here's my videos for today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNxmNBlnAmw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b2OB7O7L9o One thing I noticed was that for the first and the second test, it seems as if the control center sent the activation signals to some sirens twice as some of the siren stations did a &qu...

The old motor sirens were found throughout San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano. I believe all have been replaced during the upgrade to the new Whelen system a few years ago. They were actually custom designed by an engineer who worked for So Cal Edison. I don't think the whole unit was actually bui...

The annual siren test for San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station will be conducted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009. I'm planning to be down in San Clemente with my new camera to capture this year's test. Three alert signals will be sounded between 10 am and noon http://san-clemente.org/sc/News.aspx?P...