[Sick] Loudoun  ES-2000 | Wail | Owenton, KY (Owen Co.Tornado Siren Test)
Channel: DSRX100
Date: 2018-09-13

Copyright 2018 | Brandon Mendel (Please use with permission). 
Originally Recorded 9/6/2017

Eager to hear a "Master Blaster" for the first time, I decided to head over to Owenton, Kentucky, part of an enclave teeming with Loudoun sirens for whatever reason. It was a bit of a drive, but there were enough sirens in town for an ambience, should this siren fail. The small town has another Master Blaster, a Model 3, a Model 5, and a manually-controlled Sterling M-10.

Owenton's sirens are part of a joint, tri-county siren system operated by the Kentucky State Police Post which includes Henry, Owen, and Trimble Counties. They're tested the first Wednesday of each month at 11. The plan was to record two sirens, with only a small, time window in between. So once 11:02 rolled around, I was getting anxious. 

Then, the radio announcement, came. I got excited until after the tones hit. Nothing from this ES-2000, but the background sirens could be heard as expected. Then the siren started to burp, again and again with each cycle longer than the last. I'd say the controller is having some serious issues but it's not the only sick siren. One of the Model Xs is having pitch problems. It's hard to tell by sound alone, but if you plug the audio into an audio editing suite like Audition, you can see in the spectral view that a siren is having trouble keeping steady. The town's other Master Blaster, which is not that far away from this one, also couldn't be heard. The healthiest siren in this town is the Sterling. It could be heard at a pretty fair distance despite the high pitch. 

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