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Originally Posted by rdale
That's strange to issue it at that time and apparently ignorning the test warning! Interesting...
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Any time the sirens in Oakland County are activated as a test, amateur radio operators, citizens that live near a siren, and various public safety agencies are requested to verify the operation of as many of the 200+ sirens in the county as possible. To make this work effectively, Oakland county scheduled the specific activation time to allow the various spotters around the county to minimize the amount of time that would be needed to verify the operation of as many of the sirens as possible.
For me, it's much easier to get 30-45 minutes off work (I took an early lunch hour) to get to my assigned siren and verify it's operation. If we were told that the test will occur somewhere between 11:00 and Noon but we don't know exactly when, I probably would not have been able to take the time off I needed to cover my assigned siren. Allowing 15 minutes to get to my assigned location and 15 minutes to return to work, I would have to allow for up to 90 minutes of time to be able to participate. While my boss is usually pretty understanding of public service items like this I would probably not have been able to get 90 minutes off work to cover my assigned siren under that circumstance.
I don't know how the other counties handle this test, but Oakland uses it in place of the normal monthly test (we won't have the normal test on April 7th since we had this one).
BTW, the siren I covered did not activate. It's one of the older one-way thunderbolt sirens. Had I not been there to cover it, the county may not have known before the May siren test that it was not operational.
Mike
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