26/3/08 Tornado Drill Siren Activation

This is the control center of the Franklin County EMA

[@engine173351]

The way this guy times his operations makes it almost like an art to activate sirens.

[@KillerJoeFIN]

"dibadibadii... thats all folks" @ 7:47 :D

[@AllAmericanFE]

The job is Warning Manager at the Emergency Management Agency. This job may have a different title at other EMA's

[@ssammonds]

The "calculator on steroids" controls the Thunderbolts & the "drum machine" controls the Whelens. LONG LIVE TBOLTS.

[@maureensmith3]

So this is the gentleman whose voice I hear blasted across town every Wednesday noon (and every tornado warning)? I figured it was prerecorded :)

[@AllAmericanFE]

The button he pushes at the beginning is the "Send" button which sends the command. The older controller on the left controls the Thunderbolts and the one he pushes send controls everything else. The Thunderbolts are being replaced fast. As soon as the 2 that are being replaced are we will only have 3 left

[@bait28]

the EMA building is not autherized to give out frequencys for people will build thier own sender and activate the sirens

[@videogamer24385]

what was that loud dtmf at the end

[@AllAmericanFE]

3 Minutes On 5 Minutes off for an actual Tornado Warning. For the drill its 3 Minutes on followed by the voice in all 4 major directions (North South East West) which takes roughly 5-10 minutes to do.

[@zappatx]

@lunarfoxie My guess is they are set up as a loop test to verify the control portion of the system. I've built many systems using this test and verify procedure. I would have explained on the mike more about the test though.

[@videogamer24385]

Thats my favorite siren of all. make a vid of it plzzzzzzzzz!

[@TransGalGaming]

@MilesBennetDyson4 That's known as a radio code. It's a signal the receiver at the siren site recognizes as Test, Alert, Attack, or Hi-Lo, etc

[@janching1885]

Is there any web site that is able to be use to set any tornado sirens off

[@AllAmericanFE]

There are 2 grey sirens on the computer map that he cannot remove. They do not exist in the system. The activation equipment tries to activate the ghost sirens but they do not exist.

[@turfshredder]

why are there electronic numbers throughout the video?(the fast beeps)

[@HesitantSignal]

@lunarfoxie Sirens that aren't there and can't be removed from the system is what im assuming.

[@ModelA]

The blue/purple looking skinny box on the top shelf to the right is a Symetrics 528E microphone audio processor.

[@MATTYMO2014]

@brdane where in the video are you hearing the eas tones ?

[@NLind]

What make and model are those boxes? I like the looks of 'em, the leftmost one looks like a calculator on steroids and the rightmost one looks somewhat like a drum machine or other piece of electronic music equipment.

[@thecompanycar]

The button he pushes at the beginning is the "Send" button which sends out the dtmf signal that activates all the sirens. The Thunderbolts are controlled with the same equipment as the Whelens because they have a Whelen RTU at each thunderbolt site that's tied into the RCM-1.