Alternate Title: The Difficulty of Filming a Video Next to a Busy Road
This month, I decided to combine two of my hobbies by filming the bell system on top of the Holmes Student Center (HSC) hotel tower, located on the Northern Illinois University (NIU) campus, activate at the hour of 10 AM and an ambience of DeKalb's Federal Signal 2001s (1st/2nd GEN SRNs & SRNBs) and even Sycamore's 2001s (3rd/4th GEN SRNs). Let me know if I should post more of these videos in the future. To accomplish this task, I set up in a spot on the east side of campus with a zoomed-in shot of the bell tower itself. However, this spot was probably not the best one since it was next to a busy road. Regardless of the fact, though, the bell tower and the sirens were still audible enough including that one 2001 (the 2nd GEN SRN at DeKalb High School perhaps) that seemed to forget how to cancel during the 2nd activation.
I also have a theory that DeKalb tests their sirens a couple minutes later to allow for the bell tower at that hour to be heard without the sound of the sirens drowning it out. The city of DeKalb usually tests their sirens on the 1st Tuesday of the month at around 10:00 AM. Throughout the past couple months, they performed two alert cycles on their system: the 1st cycle being 15-20 seconds long and the 2nd cycle being 10-20 seconds long with a 0-3 minute pause in between. Today, they seemed to run each cycle for ~25 seconds of alert. However, if the weather on the 1st Tuesday is bad or for other reasons, DeKalb will cancel their test for that month and in rare cases, postpone it to the next week.
The town of Sycamore, on the other hand, usually tests their sirens every Tuesday at 10:00 AM, but since their system is known for being cursed (I don't know if it still is), the sirens may test 5-10 minutes earlier. As for the bell tower, it is set to do the Westminster chimes (in G major) at the hour every day from 8:00 AM-10:00 PM and then strike that hour (in the pitch of C). In addition, it plays the university's fight song (in G major) at 12:00 PM after the chimes (except on Sundays) as well as another song at 5:00 PM which is different each day.
Down below are the time stamps indicating where in the video the bell tower and the sirens start to activate. For those of you viewing this video who are are into clocks and not sirens, you can skip to the first time stamp and stop watching the video at around 0:57. Conversely, if you are viewing this video just for the siren ambience, feel free to skip to those other time stamps. Otherwise, enjoy the full video:
Holmes Student Center Bell Tower Activation (10:00 AM Chimes) = 0:08
Sycamore's Federal Signal 2001s = 1:12
DeKalb's Federal Signal 2001s (1st Activation) = 2:07
DeKalb's Federal Signal 2001s (2nd Activation) = 3:07
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