How odd... This Whelen is running on a Federal Signal UV, and is sounding hi-lo and alternate wail. It's rare for a MOD/DSA to be running these signals, so seeing a Whelen do them is even more rare.
Awesome! I think first UV Whelen Hilo on YT and For sure the first Whelen UV Alternate wail! Almost sounds like an EOWS Except it does not go all the way down in Alternate wail
Like I said before in the other comments it is stupid to put in UV controller in a siren that's designed for low pitch tones this is too high in fact if it was very very high or make this high-pitched that's not good for your ears they be blown out in 5 hours or less
OH MY GOSH! I LIVE NEAR THIS SIREN!! It only does a short alert now for about 45 seconds. I recorded the ambience from my house but I don't post them on UA-cam.
TheJakeman789 ati makes them too, as much as they suck, they need a better alert tone. I swear I'm glad my county has 2001's, I cannot stand the crappy ati alert tone.
Even though this is a vortex and can't do voice with whelen controls, could it do voice messagess since it has the ultra voice? And why do communities do this to whelens?
wolfmaster While most sirens have collector rings, whelen sirens have wires coming from their rotator boxes. If they have 360 degrees of rotation, then said wires will snap, rendering said siren useless.
okay, thank you so much, I love the alternate wail tone but I don't like how high pitched it is, since whelens are more powerful than modulators does the higher pitch travel father?the largest modulator model available now is the 8032 and its 70db range is about 4200ft and in the modulator booklet it says that that is it effective range,and a whelen vortex's 70db range is about 5200ft but that is with a whelen tone,and id love to hear alternate and pulsed wail in a whelen 440htz and 560htz tone
@@triclamite I’m sure he knows that, I think he’s pointing out that it sounds like a 612 because SiraTone controllers and UV controllers sound very similar especially in Alt. Wail.
One of the only times that I've ever liked to see an UltraVoice controller on a non-Federal Signal siren. I'm in love with the way how this sounds in those signals. When is this siren tested and where is it located?
The fin are on the Whellen Vortexes but there not on the 4004 I think the fin is for decoration for the back but there 4004, 4008 and 3016 don’t have the fin present but the 4004 is literally the same thing as the vortex
I literally just go into watching sirens today, so I'm a total amateur. But I'm hooked already! Why doesn't it spin all the way around? Also, can anyone tell me where to start learning about all the different kinds and stuff? Thanks!
A great place to learn where I spent most of my time when I was into the hobby is the Siren Board, can be found here: www.airraidsirens.net/forums/ Lots of great people that are very knowledgeable on the hobby chat there, and you can connect with them and learn so much.
This siren doesn’t have collector rings which helps the siren rotate all the way, so it isolates back and forth to prevent the wires from getting tangled up and snap.
FOR ANYONE WHO IS NEW TO THE COMMUNITY AND STUMBLES UPON THIS COMMENT: Older rotational Whelens(I'm talking about the 2000R like models) had conduction rings(my term). Newer Whelen Rotational models don't have that, instead they're hardwired. They use an oscillator. What this does is that it helps the siren not get the wires tangled up, and it stops in a specific position and switches direction. Like I said, this is for anyone new to the community.
That's a stupid that UV controllers can blow out of the drivers more easily seriously they're not supposed to take high-pitched tones I don't know why they put the UV controller in there but it sounds like a federal signal modulator and I really like the Echoes from the background
Elizabeth_958 it is loud and I pulled the fire alarm system deals for your business and leisure travelers and friends song instrumental in the world is gonna roll me that the song is from shrek shrek shrek shrek shrek shrek shrek is super dreck dreck the tank engine STERLING sirens on crack BOISE STATE OF mind and spirit of the Diesels in the world is a highway instrumental music and the screen lifts up to the New Braunfels Texas has a couple of sirens on crack BOISE STATE OF the Diesels in the morning and evening and friends song ear rape is the first generation Navigator is the best way to get a Model 5t on the way to get a Model 2 siren test with Insane Echoes boi the Harry Potter Obama is a Federal Signal Thunderbolt on chopper setting 6 the tank engine optimization and I will Probably be going to Alamo City Furry Invasion (Sorry for all the Randomness)
THE ALTERNATE WAIL SOUNDS EXACTLY LIKE FEDERAL SIGNAL MODULATORS! Yes I know the siren has a Federal Signal sound card and that’s why it sounds like a modulator or EOWS-612
@@simplexpulls3 Wrong, the Vortex CONTROLLER isn't voice capable. Since this is running on a Federal Signal UV controller, a voice capable controller, this siren is voice capable.
The Killer Clown actually Monroe Co., Michigan put UV controllers on their Whelens to upgrade them to have them activate with their new Modulators. I think.
How odd... This Whelen is running on a Federal Signal UV, and is sounding hi-lo and alternate wail. It's rare for a MOD/DSA to be running these signals, so seeing a Whelen do them is even more rare.
Agreed.
Sounds like Chicago
mn_sirens aasssss
Asaaaa%%%%
@@dannapaulino8744 asa?
thats my name you ween el peen
Love it a whelen that sounds like a modulator
1:09 Chicago siren moment yall been waiting for
Xd I live in the burbs
Same
Siren head?
@@FNAFFAN829You’ve angered the siren community, run while you still can.
and then siren head sound starts
eek.
never heard a whelen in alternate wail.
windowsnerd that has an FS UV card
@@aether9747 Controller. Theres a whelen wps 4004 that has a uv controller near me
@Menno Van der weide UltraVoice can do hi lo steady as well
What if it is on silent test? It could be S I R E N H E A D
It's also not SiraTone. Notice the windup? That's ultravoice
Alternatie wail has a insane echo!!
Don't forget the cause of that echo is due to the siren being a rotating siren
1003 HOW CAN U TALK WHEN IR A SIREN
UR*
@@susansorrentino6130 idk I was just made like this
@@susansorrentino6130
ASS
When it's on low in the Hi-Low tone, it sounds like a modulator 5020, and on it's high stage, it sounds like one of those higher pitched modulators.
PhantomWolfGames it's just the echo
Kinda like that one EOWS 1212 in Hawaii
@@dinkindaneYou mean the Heeia Neighborhood Park EOWS 1212?
I think it's cool how those whelen vortex finbacks look
Ikr
The part at the end when the siren winds down its sounds like someone bout to get pulled over 😭😭
NO!!
@@arlynmp6735 GO TO HELL
this sounds like the sound drivers from a modulator
That's because it uses the same controller (Federal Signal Ultravoice).
Quentin Richards well sorry my knowledge is not great
Mr Goomba Tam Official more like that EOWS 612 that used to be in Livonia MI and that one did the alternative wail. It was weird.
Tia Schlitz kind of except that EOWS used SiraTone controls and this one uses UV
It's very rare to find a Whelen siren sounding like a Modulator...
They’re all over the place in Michigan!
We've got one in Iowa
Almost sounds like the Sheldon Park EOWS 612 with all those echos.
The reverb on this thing is amazing!
Hi lo Jack csi
hdg
I love the reverb that those drivers put out at 0:15!
I love how the category is comedy
The Notorious FRUIT why?
If only whelen had collected rings
Awesome! I think first UV Whelen Hilo on YT and For sure the first Whelen UV Alternate wail! Almost sounds like an EOWS Except it does not go all the way down in Alternate wail
Also it has whelen speaker drivers, so it sounds like a whelen, but in alt wail
HOLD UP
AN ULTRAVOICE CONTROLLER
Those high pitched noises are going to destroy the speaker drivers
if the city can afford it, they'll keep on using the same tones until the drivers blow and replace them (repeat cycle as many times as necessary)
Like I said before in the other comments it is stupid to put in UV controller in a siren that's designed for low pitch tones this is too high in fact if it was very very high or make this high-pitched that's not good for your ears they be blown out in 5 hours or less
Lower frequency tones destroy drivers, actually.
Those Whalen speakers are built like a tank. They can take it
@@marisahorton1976you dumbass,a human would need to be standing right nextto the siren horn for it to end up blowing a persons' ears out
the alternate wail sounds so much like the EOWS 612 siren that was in livonia MI
OH MY GOSH! I LIVE NEAR THIS SIREN!! It only does a short alert now for about 45 seconds. I recorded the ambience from my house but I don't post them on UA-cam.
post it please........
did it sound like a whelen or an fs siratone
*Category: Comedy*
Funny siren spin like ballerina
@Pissant dude... I was joking -_-
I just realized Whelen is the only electronic siren company that makes rotating electronic sirens.
TheJakeman789 what about EOWS?
I stated this in another comment that probably should've been in this one, the EOWS is not produced anymore. So thats that...
TheJakeman789 ati makes them too, as much as they suck, they need a better alert tone. I swear I'm glad my county has 2001's, I cannot stand the crappy ati alert tone.
No, they don't. You can go check the website.
Keaton0801 I haven't seen a rotating ATI siren anywhere.
1:10 whelen is sounding like the Chicago tornado siren
mohammad naji that one in Chicago was a modulator I’m pretty sure
Alternate wail
@@aether9747 yes you are right
@@aether9747 I though Chicago has EOWS, at least used to be?
FahmiRBLX they never did, the alternate wail on siratones don’t sound like that
I’m getting a whelen this fall and i already have 3 UVs so im planning on using mine with a UV like this unit
I might configure it for dual tone
My favorite part is the alternate wail I like the echo
Nothing beats an old Thunderbolt.
Compared to newer sirens the bolt is a hunk of shit on the spec sheet
Though the bolt is essentially a cult classic
@@schztinky2820 shut the heck up, its amazing compared to atis and those bs sirens
@@mjt777x8 no u
What about a CHRYSLER
Even though this is a vortex and can't do voice with whelen controls, could it do voice messagess since it has the ultra voice? And why do communities do this to whelens?
Maybe.
I think it's the driver type, not the controller
I love how vortex sounds like a modulator or eows 612
Wow, alternate wail in my state (alabama) very rare...
Ikr I live here yoo
Yeah i never heard it in irl in the i live (Alabama)
I love this siren
The tornado here this and be like uhh uhh I'll just grab my stuff and leave.
Yeah it's like that with alt wails
Me: hey dad, can I get whelen finback at home?
Dad: no, we already got whelen finback at home.
Whelen finback at home:
Alternate wail is creepy!
@Dakota Rodriguez and alternate wail
@Dakota Rodriguez did you watch the whole video? Alternate Wail comes after
@Dakota Rodriguez Obviously you didn't watch the whole video. I suggest doing that next time.
@Yellow Thunderbolt 1003A Tornado Siren its music
it sounds like the modulator sirens in Clemson university using hi lo tone
What I like about it is that the siren rotates in both directions
Whelen sirens can't spin right round like a record because of the wire. It will snap if it does spin right round like a record LOL
@@HSETM that means the wire is fragile
@@stephensnell1379 ...
@@stephensnell1379 no it will snap becuse it doesn't have collector rings or brushes and the wire is too short (just my guess on it)
@@katzenwagen.6799.o I think it's that the wire might get tangled or some shit.
Sweet Home Alabama
Winddown on alt wail is amazing
NEAT!!!!!
That wind down was amazing
its rotating, why did it stop, its rotating the other way, this siren has a lack of collector rings
Zayy'zR44 yea i think any siren is awesome no matter how it rotates
wolfmaster Collector rings collector rings Collector rings collector rings Collector rings collector rings Collector rings collector rings Collector rings collector rings Collector rings collector rings Collector rings collector rings Collector rings collector rings Collector rings collector rings Collector rings collector rings Collector rings collector rings Collector rings collector rings Collector rings collector rings Collector rings collector rings Collector rings collector rings Collector rings collector rings Collector rings collector rings Collector rings collector rings Collector rings collector rings Collector rings collector rings Collector rings
wolfmaster While most sirens have collector rings, whelen sirens have wires coming from their rotator boxes. If they have 360 degrees of rotation, then said wires will snap, rendering said siren useless.
-collector rings collector rings collector rings collector rings!!!!!
-IMMA FIRIN MAH LAZER!!
-(Killed by lazer)
EOWS 816: COLLECTOR RINGS COLLECTOR RINGS COLLECTOR RINGS COLLECTOR RINGS COLLECTOR RINGS COLLECTOR RINGS COLLECTOR RINGS COLLECTOR RINGS COLLECTOR RINGS COLLECTOR RINGS ! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
It’s sounds like a modulator doing Hilo
Gives me Chicago vibes
This Whelen is having an identity crisis. It's a trans siren.
@Miss Anthropy agreed
The only time they say gender is just a figure of speech
you two are stupid it's obviously a joke
Colorado, Washington and California sirens i TOTALLY agree, they don’t know the joke, so just r/whoosh them.
Its a joke
Sound Like The Siren In Chicago
Damonlive783 OfficialTM you mean the EOWS 612
*Federal Signal Modulator, Alternate Wail
@Godzillafan 2011 actually no, most electronic sirens run alt wail, and most of Chicago's siren sounds, so no, these aren't ripoffs
okay, thank you so much, I love the alternate wail tone but I don't like how high pitched it is, since whelens are more powerful than modulators does the higher pitch travel father?the largest modulator model available now is the 8032 and its 70db range is about 4200ft and in the modulator booklet it says that that is it effective range,and a whelen vortex's 70db range is about 5200ft but that is with a whelen tone,and id love to hear alternate and pulsed wail in a whelen 440htz and 560htz tone
This sounds just like siren head. Siren head has federal signal speaker drivers and a federal signal ultra voice XD that's his tone
@Menno Van der weide U loose the game: not related to alt wail
Has to have alt wail in ur comment
just now realizing that just like there's avgeeks there's people who are REALLY invested in these. cool.
This sounds amazing
0:14 Siren Starts
Love that echo 2:52
the second time it goes off it sounds like a eows 612
OG_Squid72 its not using the siratone controller, it is using the ultravoice controller, the one on modulator
@@triclamite I’m sure he knows that, I think he’s pointing out that it sounds like a 612 because SiraTone controllers and UV controllers sound very similar especially in Alt. Wail.
Meet the all new: whelen modulator r4
i never seen whelen use uv controller before
That’s the most eows 612 thing I have ever seen
I don't remember the siren sounding like that when I lived in Hoover
It probably still had the original controls when you were living there.
One of the only times that I've ever liked to see an UltraVoice controller on a non-Federal Signal siren. I'm in love with the way how this sounds in those signals. When is this siren tested and where is it located?
+DJ2226 that's what I asked!
MC
The fire dept
@@HSETM duh
@@wyattpaul2009 replied to a 2 year old comment 💀
I'd be creeped out if I heard that for the first time in person lol
It's meant to be creepy
Yeah that’s because that’s siren head.
@@Clem73 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
@@Clem73 No
@@Clem73 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-
*Hears siren from the distance
dies
hey guys its new siren its call mod 4004
mod vortex*
Is this siren running on a federal signal uv
That tornado siren sounds like a siren head. I love this sound
@Yellow Thunderbolt 1003A Tornado Siren lkr
@Federal Signal Thunderbolt 1003A Tornado Siren
Federal Signal SirenHeadbolt 1003A Tornado Siren Head
@Federal Signal Thunderbolt 1003A Tornado SirenHead
@Federal Signal Thunderbolt 1003A Tornado Siren Head
It doesn't sound like that creature
If this one is still in service it's super close to me! Very nice but what's with that fin if anyone knows?
The fin are on the Whellen Vortexes but there not on the 4004 I think the fin is for decoration for the back but there 4004, 4008 and 3016 don’t have the fin present but the 4004 is literally the same thing as the vortex
I literally just go into watching sirens today, so I'm a total amateur. But I'm hooked already! Why doesn't it spin all the way around? Also, can anyone tell me where to start learning about all the different kinds and stuff? Thanks!
A great place to learn where I spent most of my time when I was into the hobby is the Siren Board, can be found here: www.airraidsirens.net/forums/ Lots of great people that are very knowledgeable on the hobby chat there, and you can connect with them and learn so much.
The whelen does not rotate all way because it needs collector really rings or slip rings
This siren doesn’t have collector rings which helps the siren rotate all the way, so it isolates back and forth to prevent the wires from getting tangled up and snap.
@@ValenDRV oscillates*
FOR ANYONE WHO IS NEW TO THE COMMUNITY AND STUMBLES UPON THIS COMMENT: Older rotational Whelens(I'm talking about the 2000R like models) had conduction rings(my term). Newer Whelen Rotational models don't have that, instead they're hardwired. They use an oscillator. What this does is that it helps the siren not get the wires tangled up, and it stops in a specific position and switches direction. Like I said, this is for anyone new to the community.
If FS still made rotational electronic sirens...
Wow this is cool
@Andre And Otis its not tho
IT SOUNDS GOOD-
Oh hey! So thats what the Chicago sirens came from!
Chicago had it first
I wonder why they have these things run Federal signal UV's, that is strange! But it definitely is a change
Why didn't hawaii install these?
I would probably cost alot, and these aren't designed for UV. Plus the drivers would fry more Easily.
They are crap
That's a stupid that UV controllers can blow out of the drivers more easily seriously they're not supposed to take high-pitched tones I don't know why they put the UV controller in there but it sounds like a federal signal modulator and I really like the Echoes from the background
@@marisahorton1976 They probably have a system of MODs and upgraded the controllers on their Vortexes.
Thank god, I've finally seen a Whelen with an FS controller.
Remember the other Whelens with UV controllers? Especially one of those WS-series sirens in Monroe county.
It's a siratone
@@1000BT no it isn’t lol
I go to Panama 🇵🇦 city beach and Alabama to and I saw sirens like a Nuclear ☢️ siren in real life is that cool
OMG IVE SEEN THAT SIREN BEFOR IN HOOVER, I ALSO LIVE IN ALABAMA
Bullshit
Same !
What’s it like there I wanna know
@@TheJakeman789 stop it
Bullshit where is it
1:08 Love that sound! I have an EOW that uses that tune!
Chicago?
Siren Head is back
The vortex wants to be a federal signal siren
In other words an eows vortex siren the only eows sounding siren to not come with collector rings XD
Whelen vortex r4 "finback" with a Federal Signal MC controller
CSX Railfan 1000T UV actually but you were close
Elizabeth_958 it is loud and I pulled the fire alarm system deals for your business and leisure travelers and friends song instrumental in the world is gonna roll me that the song is from shrek shrek shrek shrek shrek shrek shrek is super dreck dreck the tank engine STERLING sirens on crack BOISE STATE OF mind and spirit of the Diesels in the world is a highway instrumental music and the screen lifts up to the New Braunfels Texas has a couple of sirens on crack BOISE STATE OF the Diesels in the morning and evening and friends song ear rape is the first generation Navigator is the best way to get a Model 5t on the way to get a Model 2 siren test with Insane Echoes boi the Harry Potter Obama is a Federal Signal Thunderbolt on chopper setting 6 the tank engine optimization and I will Probably be going to Alamo City Furry Invasion
(Sorry for all the Randomness)
CSX Railfan 1000T ...
MCP
THE ALTERNATE WAIL SOUNDS EXACTLY LIKE FEDERAL SIGNAL MODULATORS!
Yes I know the siren has a Federal Signal sound card and that’s why it sounds like a modulator or EOWS-612
It's using a uv controller not a whelen controller with a federal signal sound card.
Alabama sirens warning of people commiting incest. (Chill it was only a joke. Btw the echo is amazing)
the birmingham sirens are CREEPY
@@danariusgosha9353 ikr
Where in Hoover is this?
Im trying to find it
Station 8
1:38
Why is there a welen vortex siren doing hi low and alternate wail
I have never heard a tornado siren in person because I live in Long Beach CA but I've seen a SD-10 near a college
Huh
What do u mean Paul Spomer
just thought that is interesting and weird
I saw a BN Mobil directo in Michigan by Lake Michigan
1:09 Alternate Wail Tone Starts
Play it at 2x speed
First part: Sounds like phantom marionette
Second part: ChEeSe AAAAAAAAA NOOOOOOO EIGHTS GONNA KILL US WITH THE CHEESE THING
PrincessMadison2008 Is Not A Siren Kiddie
An whelen sound like Hilo and alternative wail
So this is a voice capable Vortex Finback?
Vortexes are not voice capable only 4004s are voice capable
@@simplexpulls3 Wrong, the Vortex CONTROLLER isn't voice capable. Since this is running on a Federal Signal UV controller, a voice capable controller, this siren is voice capable.
Yep I was wrong, the vortex is literally the 4004 but without a voice capable controller aka type 1 controller. So yeah you're right.
@@jeremydunn6089 I think its more the driver type LOL
@@HSETM I'm 100% sure that's not what it is, look it up, it's the controllers.
I wonder if every Whelen Vortex R4 in Hoover, Alabama has alternate wail?
Thinh Le Whelen vortexs are actually rare in Hoover. This one I believe is the only one that does alternative wail.
This is the Chicago Sirens.
A Whelen running FEDERAL SIGNAL HI-LOW?! WHAT?!
And alternate wail!
who put a UV controller on a whelen, and what was he smoking?
The Killer Clown actually Monroe Co., Michigan put UV controllers on their Whelens to upgrade them to have them activate with their new Modulators. I think.
The Killer Clown weed, it was weed
The Killer Clown your pain in the ass
stampycatfan01 this is in Alabama.
OMG the alternate wail reminds me of the Livonia, Sheldon park EOWS 612!!!
A L T E R N A T I N G W A I L
Alternate title: whelen vortex R4 got hacked by federal signal so it plays the signals whelen doesnt have
How federal signal is eow so maybe Sounding hi lo and alternate wail but sound like eow 612 siren
4:06 why the end sound so sad tho-
0:01. I hear aca hurricane
It sounds like a Federal Signal Modulator.
yea idk y but they use a uv control box manily used for mods and dsa sirens
I've never heard this tone on a whelen vortex before...
me too.
it sounds like a modulator
+Saleh Rangwalla Because it's being run with a controller meant for a Modulator
1m5orand0m Ohh ok
+Saleh Rangwalla I have one by my house without the fin and it does this
me to
What is the purpose of that fin on the back of it?
Keaton Spence nO bOdY kNoWs BUSTER!!!!!!1!!1!!!
Keaton Spence jk it’s to stop air from blowing it away or somthing
Keaton Spence it’s supposed to help it rotate if the rotator box broke.
@Keaton Spence the finback is designed to Rotate the siren via winds, so it can Rotate incase if the Rotator box breaks.
in case ur wandering, yes, that IS the Chicago sieren.
YES, FOUND THE VID!!
I KNOW that! its the same siren TYPE chicago uses