Federal Signal Thunderbolt 1003 | 2x Hi-Lo | Wapakoneta, OH | 10/5/19

*Reuploaded due to quality issue; siren starts at 1:18*

Apologies for the slightly blurry video, I accidentally zoomed in a bit too far. Also listen for the hilarious commentary by two people at the end of the first activation before the beginning of the second one, they were working on the roof of a home less than 100 feet away from the siren.

While it's been sort of over-recorded already, I had to go see this 1003 for myself because it does Hi-Lo. It was extremely loud, but did not vibrate the ground unlike the other Thunderbolts I've heard.

I was joined by Jeremy and Dominic (SuperSirex127) at this test along with Aiden (Sirens of SW Ohio) and Cian (BNSF Bandit). I didn't know whether or not we would get a second hi-lo cycle but we happened to be lucky and got one.

The tones/pre-test announcement before the test are unrelated to the siren test; those tones are for the weekly pager test at some of the fire departments in rural parts of the county.

I have a suspicion that the last string of two tone which came through about a minute after the end of the announcement may be for New Bremen's 2001's, since they test their system weekly on Saturdays at noon, but who knows. All that is certain is that none of those tones activate Wapakoneta's sirens, as we did not get any.

Wapakoneta controls their sirens independent of Auglaize County and tests on the First Saturday of every month at noon. Wapakoneta has this 1003, 5 2001's, and a Sentry 10V (the 10V is owned by a private factory and is on their property, and the 10V does not test with the county or Wapakoneta, as it never sounded). Enjoy!

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Camera(s) Used: Canon Powershot SX50HS (Intro Photos), Canon Vixia HF-R700 (video and audio)

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