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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
