Saltaire Volunteer Fire Company's Gamewell Diaphone Horn Test

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  • čas přidán 8. 08. 2011
  • The 1210 test of SVFC's Gamewell Diaphone Horn. Apparently the third set of Quick Call II tones isn't rescue, but rather for horn activation as the relay tripped before the DTMF was complete (listen closely). Fair Harbor FD's Model 7t and 5 can be heard, along with a radio test dispatch at the end of the recording.
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  • @MrScottie68
    @MrScottie68 Před 5 lety +37

    Scary. Sounds like a louder version of the horn in my elementary school that used to sound during civil defense drills. Still gives me a chill as I can vividly remember going out into the hallways crouching down facing the wall with hands and arms over my head wondering if it could really be an actual attack about to happen instead of a drill.

    • @mrwonderful2142
      @mrwonderful2142 Před 11 měsíci +3

      Our school's leftover civil defense horns were used as part of the class bell system after they weren't needed for duck and cover anymore (90s)

    • @SirenLightsInnovate
      @SirenLightsInnovate Před 2 měsíci

      A school in my county has an air horn or something similar that goes off everyday as the school's bell system.

  • @SoleFern
    @SoleFern Před 6 lety +192

    Time for Spongebob to get up

    • @LARDLOGO
      @LARDLOGO Před 6 lety +14

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    • @actionfire4036
      @actionfire4036 Před 5 lety +3

      XD

    • @BRadfrommalibu74
      @BRadfrommalibu74 Před 5 lety +10

      @@LARDLOGO Good morning, Krusty Krew!

    • @thomasnativo6491
      @thomasnativo6491 Před 5 lety +4

      Oh yeah his Fog horn alarm clock

    • @racer927
      @racer927 Před 5 lety +5

      Spongbob's alarm clock sounds more like a Swanson 400.

  • @garyphillips2315
    @garyphillips2315 Před 4 lety +49

    We had one of them on our fire department back in the pre 80's days. It was VERY loud and would peel Paint when fired off. I once heard it 30 miles away!

    • @KnoxvilleRailfanProductions
      @KnoxvilleRailfanProductions Před rokem +1

      Thats not possible. Probably another dept's.

    • @ThunderboltSirenStudios
      @ThunderboltSirenStudios Před 11 měsíci +1

      That means it would have to be louder than the Chrysler air raid siren to be heard 30 miles away. But the Chrysler air raid siren is the loudest warning device in the world and can only be heard 25 miles away. The official Chrysler air raid siren website states that the Chrysler air raid siren is significantly louder than any other horn or whistle. So this diaphone being heard 30 miles away is bogus. Sorry 😕

    • @fmartinjr
      @fmartinjr Před 9 měsíci

      Yea....30 ...miles away...

    • @SylvesterTheSupernatural
      @SylvesterTheSupernatural Před 2 měsíci

      Peel paint off the walls? Did you get that thing from Silent Hill?

    • @SirensAndAlarmsOfNorthernIL
      @SirensAndAlarmsOfNorthernIL Před měsícem

      ⁠@@ThunderboltSirenStudioslemme guess, you got that from AI. Some ship horns are louder than a Chrysler air raid siren and those are still warning devices. That claim is prb regarding a public safety warning device, not just a general warning device

  • @Blacklight8001
    @Blacklight8001 Před 6 lety +24

    This thing scared me even expecting it

  • @proskills2168
    @proskills2168 Před 7 lety +59

    childhood memories of these in Queens, N.Y. We were playing near one when it went off. Never played there again, lol.

    • @MrScottie68
      @MrScottie68 Před 6 lety +4

      ProSkills216 where in Queens were these?

    • @michaelpatanella
      @michaelpatanella Před 5 lety +4

      i think they are referring to the ones all the volunteer companies on Long Island use. since queens borders LI

    • @killtyrant
      @killtyrant Před 5 lety +4

      Michael Patanella
      Long Beach had a large one that could be heard 8 to 10 miles away on somedays. queens is a hop and a skip away from LB so I imagine you heard that thing from time to time

    • @michaelpatanella
      @michaelpatanella Před 5 lety +1

      thats what I just said ?

    • @killtyrant
      @killtyrant Před 5 lety +1

      Didnt mean for it to be a reply to you. Must have clicked on the wrong person when i hit reply. If you read Proskills comment than my own. It will make alot more sense in that way.

  • @crazynoah7979
    @crazynoah7979 Před 7 lety +46

    It scared the camera man :D

  • @crazynoah7979
    @crazynoah7979 Před 7 lety +45

    it scared the shit out of the camera man

  • @Eights_Coronel-864
    @Eights_Coronel-864 Před rokem +9

    Damn, that's extremely strong! If I heard it in person, I'd be scared to death or my ears would explode!

  • @openmind1966
    @openmind1966 Před 10 lety +21

    The three Diaphones that Townsend, MA could be heard almost 10 miles north in Milford, NH (if you listened closely). Ashburnham, MA had them, along with Rockland, ME. The ones in Townsend were phased out in the early 1990's, the ones in Rockland were phased out in 2000, and the one in Ashburnham was phased out in 2006 (give or take 5 years..) All of which would make you jump when you least expected it. Most of them were tested at 8 a.m. and 6 pm.

    • @openmind1966
      @openmind1966 Před 10 lety +1

      Funny thing, I used go camping at Bald Mtn. Campground, and I never noticed it, but it is rather funny to think how much the towns are somewhat similar...lol!

    • @coydog7902
      @coydog7902 Před 6 lety +2

      I found a pair of diaphones in Peabody MA

    • @mrwonderful2142
      @mrwonderful2142 Před rokem +1

      We had them on each fire station in Falmouth Maine when I was a kid. If it wasn't the Diaphone it was something very similar. Coded honking for fire calls and also went off at noon and 5pm daily

  • @jaysmith1408
    @jaysmith1408 Před 5 lety +13

    Apparently in ye olde times, our station had one of these, when asked if we could replace our STH-10 with the horn, the chief said something along the lines of “oh hell no”.

  • @mws8025
    @mws8025 Před 7 lety +21

    Man, this old Type B sound pretty potent!

    • @Jamesairhvac
      @Jamesairhvac Před 11 měsíci

      Sadly it has been replaced by a model 2 siren

  • @racer927
    @racer927 Před 5 lety +25

    I actually liked how that ACA siren sounds in the distance. Nobody does distant recordings.

    • @deaderthandead1182
      @deaderthandead1182 Před 5 lety +9

      Benjamin Fuller Read the description. its a 7AT.

    • @racer927
      @racer927 Před 4 lety +6

      Silly me, it had a similar ratio to most ACA sirens.

    • @Ahmad__Muslim
      @Ahmad__Muslim Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@racer927it’s a model 7t and a model 5 according to the creator

    • @linysirenfirebuff4786
      @linysirenfirebuff4786 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Model 5T and 5

    • @MoldySiren
      @MoldySiren Před 5 měsíci +1

      It’s a 10/12 Model 7T

  • @AmericanSirenProductions
    @AmericanSirenProductions Před 12 lety +12

    it scared the crap outa me when it did the first blast (watching the video)

  • @pandude53
    @pandude53 Před 13 lety +9

    How WELL I know this horn and it is still the winner and champion in my book as it sounds better than most of them do these days and YES it IS extremely LOUD!!

  • @vivianagallardo4402
    @vivianagallardo4402 Před 4 lety +12

    America: thunderbolt 1003
    Russia: 0:10

    • @kingofthepod5169
      @kingofthepod5169 Před 3 lety +1

      This is america

    • @T128Productions
      @T128Productions Před měsícem

      “Stars and Stripes beats hammer and sickle. Look it up.”
      - TF2 Soldier
      *(I always wanted to say that)*

  • @kellylaco5871
    @kellylaco5871 Před 4 lety +9

    The horn must scared the sirens making them cry (Attack mode)

  • @hblee2038
    @hblee2038 Před 5 lety +8

    LMAO! Camera operator jumped when this thing went off!

  • @rezymu5337
    @rezymu5337 Před 2 lety +10

    Where on gods green earth did this take place? That thing sounds badass as hell.

  • @douggriffin2910
    @douggriffin2910 Před 4 lety +10

    holy hell......that could be heard in the next state !!!

  • @Lizzie747
    @Lizzie747 Před 12 lety +8

    these used to terrify me as a kid and as a 31 year old still do!

  • @velibrary8735
    @velibrary8735 Před 5 lety +34

    0:10 - The Horn from HELL!!

    • @Galaxy-ke9mf
      @Galaxy-ke9mf Před 3 lety +3

      Yep, they guy who filmed this jumped because of how loud it his.

    • @isaiahperezXfabi
      @isaiahperezXfabi Před 2 lety +1

      And make sure to turn your volume down at 0:09

    • @jwills22
      @jwills22 Před 2 lety +2

      0:11

  • @DuckboyTheDuck
    @DuckboyTheDuck Před 2 lety +2

    very healthy sounding gamewell diaphone

  • @umbrefawx
    @umbrefawx Před 7 lety +8

    Lovely 7t ambiance too.

  • @pandude53
    @pandude53 Před 13 lety +9

    Here it is actually in pretty good "voice" than I have heard it on other occasions. Sometimes the upper shift note sticks and becomes a single tone "shudder" probably due to valve problems

  • @jackssirensrobloxandmore111

    wow that loud also i hear some other sirens at the end

  • @KanoaDeCastro
    @KanoaDeCastro Před rokem +3

    Imagine if that thing blew out the fire itself. So loud that it knocks the air molecules out.

  • @harveyklatzko3461
    @harveyklatzko3461 Před 9 lety +2

    Fire Island, Ocean Beach back in 1980, when that horn went off in the G-d hours of the night, you'd jump out of your skin, and when it was foggy, it's echo was scary.. peel me off the wall. lol

  • @furryprotector2712
    @furryprotector2712 Před rokem +3

    My ass after having Taco Bell for lunch

  • @iowansirenrecordings2454
    @iowansirenrecordings2454 Před 6 lety +3

    Duck: Qauck
    Me: Hello Mr duck, do you want some bread?
    Duck: Qauck! (Yes)
    Me: Well you can't have any
    Duck: 0:11

  • @marcbach5880
    @marcbach5880 Před 5 lety +2

    I want one. Two would be even better!

  • @johnhoward3487
    @johnhoward3487 Před 4 lety +6

    Now that is something that echoes!

  • @wallol5.
    @wallol5. Před 5 lety +21

    0:10

  • @pandude53
    @pandude53 Před 13 lety +5

    The really long blasts may be due to an old Smith valve that might be "sticking" The 12:00 noon blast for this horn is nearly 5 and a half seconds long, one of the longest I have heard!!

    • @robcicero8746
      @robcicero8746 Před 2 lety +1

      Could be. I like the shorter 1/2 second blasts that are more set for fire. Also you hear the horn having dual tones in the first several blasts as the piston is being slammed by air. As the pressure drops it goes to a steady tone.

  • @jeremyschankin_77
    @jeremyschankin_77 Před 6 lety +8

    Where in Saltaire are these horns located??

  • @Josh-le6lu
    @Josh-le6lu Před 7 lety +20

    Sounds badass as hell.

  • @nathanlester9985
    @nathanlester9985 Před 2 lety +1

    No need to come save me y'all, the sound of that already killed me 😰☠️

  • @TepicneoriTFFBAS
    @TepicneoriTFFBAS Před 2 lety +1

    i like how it acts like a siren. even tho it’s not

  • @enderpea5251
    @enderpea5251 Před 3 lety +3

    I thought the federal signal model sirens were a ACA storm model for a minute at the end.

  • @rgbstatic1292
    @rgbstatic1292 Před 3 lety +3

    I think I found the worlds largest party horn. Nice video!

  • @spitfiremlp980
    @spitfiremlp980 Před rokem +1

    Also it would make a great civil defense alarm as well that diaphone horn is louder than the siren itself

  • @harveyklatzko3461
    @harveyklatzko3461 Před 7 lety +1

    Fire Island, Ocean Beach in the 70's and 80's was using a horn like this.. I was right down the block from the fire house, Denhoff Street.. one time it was a very foggy night, and the damn thing went off,, they had to peel me off then ceiling.. so scary that horn

    • @pandude53
      @pandude53 Před 4 lety

      Actually there were TWO versions of the Ocean Beach diaphone the first one being the most horrible and scary of them all. It was a lower tone with a brass piston that had a shift wobble and sickening grunt at the end. This was when the old firehouse was on the corner of
      Bayberry and the Midway. It sounded like an angry adult with a microphone scraping a balloon and the initial grace note was similar to this Saltair one. It took three tanks to blow this horn which had a 6 mile coverage and could be heard in the Pines.
      The second version was a high toned one with an aluminum piston and less unpleasant. and a new fire house was built on the Midway and Ocean Breeze where it stands now. There is now a regular Sentry siren instead and has been there since 2001.

  • @Whyyoutubewhy..
    @Whyyoutubewhy.. Před 3 lety +1

    Dude this loud boi scared the heck out of the Model 5 and 7t that they decided to wail in fear

  • @MultiPurposeReviewer
    @MultiPurposeReviewer Před rokem

    Jesus that jumpscare. I first was confused, thinking this was a video of the firefighters having some fun with the siren, playing some stylophone-esque tones, and then it suddenly explodes.

  • @megatop412
    @megatop412 Před rokem

    Grew up on Long Island near the Lawrence-Cedarhurst FD back in the 70's and 80's listening to one of these, the blasts were a little shorter than the ones in this video but holy hell, if you were standing on the other side of Central Ave across from the firehouse went it went off......you were gonna drop your ice cream, guaranteed. There was no warning at all, just nothing and then......BAMM!
    I have been searching for someone's recording of the LCFD horn for years and haven't found it. Would love to hear it again if anyone has it

  • @frankies6770
    @frankies6770 Před rokem +2

    Most effective sirens out there

  • @pseudonymous19
    @pseudonymous19  Před 11 lety +3

    Gamewell Diaphone, and there is a Model 5 and Model 7t in the background at the end.

  • @sirensofnewjerseyissimplyt429

    That vid was published on my birthday!!!!

  • @TheChachLINY
    @TheChachLINY Před 5 lety +2

    Nice video pendymouse!

  • @pseudonymous19
    @pseudonymous19  Před 11 lety +7

    Yep, Model 7T and 5

    • @lonelykillerwolf6110
      @lonelykillerwolf6110 Před 4 lety +2

      Why did it sound single tone at the start and when it came back it sounded more dual tone

    • @spencerhauck690
      @spencerhauck690 Před 3 lety +1

      Thats the 7t your hearing the t stand for two tone.

  • @spitfiremlp980
    @spitfiremlp980 Před rokem +1

    That horn would make a good tornado alarm wouldn't need a whole Army of them you just need one just by how loud it is

  • @thomasnativo6491
    @thomasnativo6491 Před 10 lety +3

    That Diaphone completely made you jumped a half a mile and scared the Birds away . Saltaires Diaphone is the winner is sounded like stucked tugboat with a type B Because company2 Diaphone in NewMilford Nj has 2 tones

  • @user-xy1lp8jx2h
    @user-xy1lp8jx2h Před 4 měsíci

    I live in connecticut and the city that I lived in had 3 of these horns mounted on their main fire station. They sure got your attention when they went off.Now the horns are no longer there as all of the firemen have pagers or cell phones so the horns were no longer needed.

  • @pseudonymous19
    @pseudonymous19  Před 12 lety +1

    @2010seamus Nope, that was the Quik-Call II pager tones used to activate the pagers of department members, and trip the relay for the horn.

  • @mr.baofeng4769
    @mr.baofeng4769 Před 4 lety +2

    That thing is so damn loud

  • @throttlebottle5906
    @throttlebottle5906 Před 6 lety +4

    need a pair of them as car horns, perhaps people would pull their heads out their rear ends and pay attention :))

  • @TurgeonFan77132
    @TurgeonFan77132 Před 13 lety +2

    How come the first 2-3 blasts have a pitch shift and then aferwards it's just a single tone.

  • @CYang-pe1sk
    @CYang-pe1sk Před 3 lety +1

    When spongebob gets a new horn

  • @dalee.goodwin3913
    @dalee.goodwin3913 Před rokem +1

    😂the moment it scared you was extremely funny 😂

  • @stupullenchannel3525
    @stupullenchannel3525 Před 5 lety +6

    damn that is loud!

  • @aguyghow9783
    @aguyghow9783 Před 3 lety +1

    holy moly .. let's start a fund to get them a thunderbolt

  • @samschannel531
    @samschannel531 Před 7 lety +5

    Man! That echo!

  • @igor00712
    @igor00712 Před 2 lety +2

    how loud are these?

  • @enderpea5251
    @enderpea5251 Před 3 lety +4

    Do these diaphone horns use drivers? Or compressed air?

  • @kingofmusicandpop
    @kingofmusicandpop Před 4 lety

    What is the siren in the background

  • @andrewclarke3622
    @andrewclarke3622 Před 2 měsíci

    love the echo!

  • @Kennedyhudsonrepublic400
    @Kennedyhudsonrepublic400 Před 4 lety +2

    0:11 oh shit that was scard me.

  • @mr.baofeng4769
    @mr.baofeng4769 Před 7 lety +1

    Cant really hear the model 5

  • @mrwonderful2142
    @mrwonderful2142 Před rokem +3

    Those things should have been made to rotate 😂

  • @mr.baofeng4769
    @mr.baofeng4769 Před 6 lety +2

    Sounds like a busy Taco Bell bathroom

  • @toybartley3528
    @toybartley3528 Před 3 lety +1

    no rotator so everyone can hear he spongebob alarm clock?

  • @Thunderbolt_7026
    @Thunderbolt_7026 Před 4 lety +2

    0:17 bird scared me

  • @ThunderTrain2930
    @ThunderTrain2930 Před 5 lety +1

    dude that got ya good

  • @oliviak2963
    @oliviak2963 Před 11 měsíci

    00:18 even the bug was scrambling away from that noise

  • @ethanrain7505
    @ethanrain7505 Před 11 lety

    My town has one of these and a model 5 that used to go off but they stopped that in 2005

  • @linysirenfirebuff4786
    @linysirenfirebuff4786 Před 3 lety +1

    Where was this angle filmed from?

  • @cometchris1090
    @cometchris1090 Před 7 lety +7

    HOW LOUD ARE THOSE THINGS? Like seriously what is the range on that thing?

  • @retro_wizard
    @retro_wizard Před 12 lety +2

    what was with the beeping in the start modulator?

  • @AmericanSirenProductions
    @AmericanSirenProductions Před 10 lety +4

    Flippin epic

  • @dangerousnoodle3730
    @dangerousnoodle3730 Před 3 lety +1

    i wonder how many decibels it is when it sounds

  • @pseudonymous19
    @pseudonymous19  Před 12 lety

    @TurgeonFan77132 Probably a sticky valve or weak compressor. They've been repairing it for a while now.

  • @slushiestcrane
    @slushiestcrane Před 2 lety +1

    Anybody want to bring one of these to the truck convoy?

  • @thomasnativo6491
    @thomasnativo6491 Před 7 lety

    New Milford NJ by Company 2 Diaphone has Type B and High pitched so it's both High and low and it's loud trust me I've herd it all the time when I'm​ home in New Milford NJ

  • @Kenny20064
    @Kenny20064 Před rokem

    Step aside Chrysler Air Raid Siren, there’s a new loud horn in town

  • @justinfranklin1679
    @justinfranklin1679 Před rokem +1

    Which street is this Gamewell Diaphone located on?

  • @coydog7902
    @coydog7902 Před 6 lety +1

    One time I found some diaphones in Peabody MA

  • @charlottemuir9838
    @charlottemuir9838 Před 6 lety +2

    Who pissed off the goose?

  • @separatistroger
    @separatistroger Před 8 lety

    In the background I heard either an ACA Allertor, Model 5, or Model 7.

  • @pseudonymous19
    @pseudonymous19  Před 11 lety +2

    Federal 7T and Model 5

  • @incrediblemichael
    @incrediblemichael Před 6 lety

    wtf whtis that for a siren it works with compressed air right

  • @Stickymajorwow
    @Stickymajorwow Před 12 lety +2

    funny when it starts u jump lol

  • @bml15014
    @bml15014 Před 12 lety

    What kinda fire whistle is that

  • @dennisbrill5336
    @dennisbrill5336 Před 3 lety

    Sounds like an SD-10 in the background?

    • @FA50PH
      @FA50PH Před 3 lety

      Read Description

  • @shelbythibodeau5506
    @shelbythibodeau5506 Před 5 lety +3

    Diaphone scared Allertor into howling!

  • @metalface3527
    @metalface3527 Před 4 lety

    What street did you get this on

  • @WatchKek
    @WatchKek Před 11 lety +2

    Made the cameraman jump too! What's it like compared to sirens?

    • @doohickey-enjoyer
      @doohickey-enjoyer Před 2 lety +2

      Louder than many, actually.

    • @doohickey-enjoyer
      @doohickey-enjoyer Před 2 lety +2

      @OWS of the South Not sure, actually. But, I am decently sure that they are decently loud, and also a little more startling.

  • @nobodyisnthere2915
    @nobodyisnthere2915 Před 6 lety +1

    Was that a ACA Allertor in the background?

  • @randiekay4994
    @randiekay4994 Před 5 lety +1

    QUAAAAAACK!!! QUAAAAAAACK!!!!

  • @sirenmaster1735
    @sirenmaster1735 Před 5 lety +1

    I also hear an Allertor and a Model 5

  • @pseudonymous19
    @pseudonymous19  Před 12 lety

    @CL137626 You are correct, you hear both a Federal Model 5 and a Federal Model 7T. See my other videos for them :)

  • @Lizzie747
    @Lizzie747 Před 12 lety

    yeah and my 4 year old thought it was hysterical!!