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RADAR
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No drinks for me but ill be hammering the finger food 
Brad.
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kx250rider
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No food & drinks here, but plenty of NOISE at midnight... I collect and restore Cold War era air raid sirens; the ones you see ontop of buildings and on 60-foot poles. I have a supercharged Federal Thunderbolt siren mounted on the deck out back of the house, and I have another siren which I'll temporarily hook up at the electric panel. I'll be blaring both of those at midnight, while my wife and a friend fire 12g shotguns and set off fireworks! (yes, gunfire is legal where we are, so don't copy us if it isn't where you are).
Charles
My Thunderbolt
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m174/kx250racer/SirenInstalled.jpg
My Model 5 siren (photo on building top is for example; mine is the identical model but is not the one in that photo)
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m174/kx250racer/FederalBlvdsirenCloseup.jpg
My model 5 siren with housing removed
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m174/kx250racer/Model5_Oct07_2.jpg
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m174/kx250racer/Model5_Oct07_1.jpg
And in case Radar knows how much power these things suck up, and believes I can't run them at our house
, here's our electric panel... We have 480v 3-phase power to run the wind machines in our avocado grove, and also for other machines.
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m174/kx250racer/Powerbox.jpg
Charles
My Thunderbolt
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m174/kx250racer/SirenInstalled.jpg
My Model 5 siren (photo on building top is for example; mine is the identical model but is not the one in that photo)
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m174/kx250racer/FederalBlvdsirenCloseup.jpg
My model 5 siren with housing removed
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m174/kx250racer/Model5_Oct07_2.jpg
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m174/kx250racer/Model5_Oct07_1.jpg
And in case Radar knows how much power these things suck up, and believes I can't run them at our house
, here's our electric panel... We have 480v 3-phase power to run the wind machines in our avocado grove, and also for other machines.http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m174/kx250racer/Powerbox.jpg
RADAR
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I spent my last two new years in Iraq, I'm getting plastered tonight lol....
kx250rider
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Thanks! I'll try to get as much video as possible to post up, without interfering with the fun!
Off topic, but Thank You for your service! You deserve to do whatever you want after that...
Charles
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Nitro79
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no alcohol for me but lot of food , every goddamn thing on the table , it's a family dinner
kx250rider
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no alcohol for me but lot of food , every goddamn thing on the table , it's a family dinner
I wonder if you're of a German family heritage? That's my situation at family meals. Tons and tons of food, all meat and starch, and you're rude if you don't pack it all down! That's one reason my wife and I opted out of all of the Christmas gatherings this year. It saved us about 150,000 fat calories!
Charles
mrplunkey
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Welcome back! Thank you.
d_rson
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I went to my Parent's party, so they made sure to have plenty of pork, chicken, and vegetables around because they know my "needs". I actually did no drinking of alcohol as I'm preparing my liver for another run, but I did drink a ton of sugar-free energy drinks which had me bouncing off the walls and in a simulated crazy high all night.
RADAR
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You are entitled to do anything you want my friend,thank you for being over there and the sacrifices you made during that time.
RADAR
kx250rider
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Video up! This is just the sirens, as I chose not to video the gunfire & fireworks... Just in case someone thinks they should hassle me about it from Youtube.
The audio in my Canon digital camera sucks, and it doesn't do the sirens any justice. But I'll tell you without exaggerating, 130 db at 100 feet is LOUD! Anyone who lives in a city with storm warning sirens, knows all about how loud. The Thunderbolt (heard but not seen) in this video is what the City of Dallas used for tornado warning up til this year, when they began replacing all of them with newer, smaller battery-backed-up sirens. The Model 5 (the one you see on the sidewalk in the video), is what Los Angeles used for the Soviet Nuke threat warning during the Cold War.
The Thunderbolt actually sounds accurate in the video, as I have the horn aimed away from the house, and on the opposite side of the house. So where I'm standing with the camera is very sheltered, and really what you hear from the Thunderbolt is a bounce off the cliff on the other side of the highway about 1/2 mile away. The Model 5 you see, can easily be felt in the chest, even standing 500 feet away.
YouTube - New Years Eve 2009-10 Cold War air raid sirens sounded at midnight in Ventura County, CA
Charles
juniorsamples
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Great home gym too.
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ALIN
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Sticking to my diet,,,I have a goal for 2010 AND I cant slack much on poor eating.
RADAR
Well-known member
No food & drinks here, but plenty of NOISE at midnight... I collect and restore Cold War era air raid sirens; the ones you see ontop of buildings and on 60-foot poles. I have a supercharged Federal Thunderbolt siren mounted on the deck out back of the house, and I have another siren which I'll temporarily hook up at the electric panel. I'll be blaring both of those at midnight, while my wife and a friend fire 12g shotguns and set off fireworks! (yes, gunfire is legal where we are, so don't copy us if it isn't where you are).
Charles
My Thunderbolt
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m174/kx250racer/SirenInstalled.jpg
My Model 5 siren (photo on building top is for example; mine is the identical model but is not the one in that photo)
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m174/kx250racer/FederalBlvdsirenCloseup.jpg
My model 5 siren with housing removed
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m174/kx250racer/Model5_Oct07_2.jpg
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m174/kx250racer/Model5_Oct07_1.jpg
And in case Radar knows how much power these things suck up, and believes I can't run them at our house
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m174/kx250racer/Powerbox.jpg
LAst nite i thought about you,i wonder how many miles and how loud those things get!
Bet you woke up half the county
Neat video.....lolololol
RADAR
kx250rider
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I probably did.... And probably scared the sh*t out of the 1000 or so attendees of an illegal, unpermitted Mexican rodeo full of caballeros borrachos (drunk cowboys) down the street. Their music and gunfire stopped instantly
The whole area knows the siren. I sound it at noon, each last Friday of the month. Virtually everyone in Moorpark, and the northern tip of Thousand Oaks, Somis, northern Camarillo and even parts of Oxnard will say they've heard "some kind of a siren on Fridays at noon"... There aren't any "official" sirens in my area, so I'm not faking an official signal. When I get time, I need to go up to the Ronald Reagan Library on the hill in Simi Valley, about 7 miles as the crow flies, and sound the siren by remote to see how well I can hear it up there. They actually have a Thunderbolt siren head in their Cold War museum, but it's an empty shell; no motor or anything. It would be cool on a guided tour, for someone to ask what that thing sounded like, and I could whip out my cellphone, call the house, and activate the siren. I have the siren wired up to be able to do that with a DTMF decoder.
I know that at our Dallas house, which is near the North Tollway and Frankford; almost in Plano, I can clearly hear the Thunderbolt at Hillcrest High School... That's a good 8 miles away.
The specs on the Thunderbolt say that a person with normal hearing should be able to hear the siren inside a closed building in a 7-mile radius (unobstructed by hills, etc).
Charles
