Sun Sep 01, 2013 5:28 pm
Wow, thank you for sharing Josh! Very interesting. Do you have a link to the PDF?
I have lived in the area of each of the three sirens coming down in 2014. I grew up and lived my first 18 years a block or so away from the 500AT. Madison also had 3 500ATs—all 240V and 9/12 port. The one on Hammersley and then two on the eastside, which were removed in 2012 and replaced by one T-128. I lived in the area of the other two sirens slated for 2014 removal while in college (Harrison 2T22 and Fish Hatch/Brooks Model 2T), and heard them a few times.
Some other notes on these sirens:
-The East High Thunderbolt and the Marsha Dr. SD-10 are two of the oldest remaining units in the system.
-The Banshee on Thurber Dr. was repaired in the last two years. In September 2011 it did not sound when I went to record it. One other Banshee remains in Maple Grove. There used to be 4 in the area.
-That "Model 7" on Fish Hatchery Rd. at Brooks was actually a Model 2T. It's been gone for some time. I last heard it for the statewide tornado drill in 2012. It was taken down sometime in the last year, but the pole still remains. There used to be another 2T in the adjacent neighborhood, at Franklin Elementary, replaced a few years ago by a 2001-130 several blocks away.
-The Emil St. Allertor is a rare 8/12 model and it sounds awesome. I've heard it for tests and one warning. I'll have to record it before it comes down. I wonder if this means that Cambridge's Allertor, also an 8/12 model installed the same year, will be removed too. (The Hubbard St. Allertor is a 9/12 model, as is Belleville's. There are 6 remaining Allertors in the county, used to be 10 until the early 2000s)
I would expect some of these to be replaced by T-121s, which have started to pop up around the county, replacing omnidirectional sirens. Others will probably be replaced by T-128s in different locations to fill in gaps. There hasn't been a 2001 installed in Madison in at least 2 years, all new units have been T-128s since then.
Bittersweet to see all these CD-era sirens, which I grew up seeing, be replaced. But there will still be quite a few CD-era units left in Madison (Thunderbolts, XT22s, the HOR) even after all these are removed.
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BadgerSiren on Sun Sep 01, 2013 5:34 pm, edited 1 time in total.
A resident of arguably the most siren-diverse county in history.