Whelen WPS-3016 Monthly test revisited

This siren has been replaced with a 4004. Monthly test of a Whelen 3016 siren located at the old Novak Elementary School. Part of the DAEC system in Cedar Rapids, IA The siren tests in Alert, then Attack (wail).

[@murrfarms]

Man you can really hear that metal screen on the front vibrating during the voice! Great catch Luke, sounds very good!

[@pLzza4150]

terrible mics be like

[@Sirenfireproductions5209]

13 years late but a Whelen WPS-3016 running on 530hz is extremely rare but it being analog makes it even rarer

[@HystoricalMicrobe]

The voice is really loud! I like it.

[@Siren1000T1]

@VMFA115Starloric Yep. All 3016s make that bad vibrating sound every time it does voice. Usually voice quality on 3016s are terrible and hard to understand but this one is good.

[@ConradVertzX]

RIP ALL DAEC 3016s last one replaced 4months ago

[@linksmokes420]

Highway 13 Far South 3016 is still operational

[@crazywarriorman]

@Howcast26 Yes, I could hear about 4-5 others on that day. The low tone carries pretty far.

[@Fat2T22]

This siren is literally 1 minute away from me (in car) the control box was labeled 14-E, idk what 14-E means It's been replaced by a vortex or 4004. i just realized that was in the description

[@ConradVertzX]

I loved this siren the sound was great its been replaced by a 4004 with an esc 2030

[@TheSleepyMechanic0524]

I love the ESC-864 control box.

[@IAhawkeye1983]

I grew up in Cedar Rapids, but I don't know where Novak elementary school. That does not look like the Cedar Rapids logo on the street sign.

[@Fat2T22]

This is marion

[@TspesVladD]

Nice Recording. Sounds very healthy.

[@ConradVertzX]

John Porter now its a 4004

[@wolfmaster873]

Sounds sick because the pitch is supposed to be louder

[@Fat2T22]

I miss this siren

[@wat6756]

Somebody told me it was replaced with 4004s dude to a broken rotator.

[@crazywarriorman]

That's true. Slowly but surely all of the 3016s and any omnidirectionals are being replaced with 4004s.

[@nickmetts5270]

Nice recording love the Whelen 3016

[@cmackla1]

Its Marion Iowa

[@crazywarriorman]

This siren has gotten all broken speaker drivers replaced and sits on a newer Concrete pole.

[@ConradVertzX]

Must have been an analog ESC 864 in the mid 80s by the tone

[@linksmokes420]

ESC-3000/MS-864

[@TheWeatherGuys]

Great video. Sounds very good.

[@soccerk8te38]

i only c yellow 3016s nice white 1 =)

[@crazywarriorman]

Well as it turns out the photo I saw of it was taken from a crappy cell phone so it looked like they put it on a new pole, but really it wasn't touched. There aren't many of these left now.

[@crazywarriorman]

@carnivalwrkr2005 It's the Marion logo, I think.

[@cooldomino1800]

Never heard a 3016 sound like that. ESC 8-64?

[@importednascar]

or fast wail.

[@Howcast26]

I wonder why some sirens even before they go off they spin around, LOL! As soon as the guy started talking the traffic lights went green!!

[@SixThreeTech]

odd pitch

[@Sirenfireproductions5209]

that is because it is 530hz unit on analog controls

[@sentry40V2T]

Why did they replace it with a 4004 after doing all that work on it?

[@Fat2T22]

idk

[@ConradVertzX]

Because they got a federal grant

[@Howcast26]

i heard another one go off in the backround, am I right?

[@brucesrandomlife2951]

What Intersection is this?

[@crazywarriorman]

freckly_BPG 10th Street and 29th Avenue in Marion, Iowa

[@rontongco4958]

i don't here anything