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   mark lewis to Joe Delahaye   
   Wannbe HAM   
   20 Sep 16 14:47:42   
   
   20 Sep 16 12:14, you wrote to me:   
      
    JD>>> Blue is used here by snow removal crews, and yes, being visible is   
    JD>>> good   
      
    ML>> absolutely... blue is only used by gendarmes here in the lower 48 ;)   
      
    JD> Snow removal has ONLY blue, while gendarmes have both blue and red.   
    JD> (Used to be red only but the started copying the US style about 10   
    JD> years ago I think it was)  In Europe it has been blue forever, and a   
    JD> very distinctive siren    
      
   you should hear the new sirens they're using and testing in various locales   
   here... i was in Raleigh the other day and had occasion to hear them when the   
   gendarmes came by on the way to assist the firetrucks... i can't describe the   
   sound of them, though... they have a bass note to them and you can actually   
   feel them when they sound... i think they call them the "rumbler"... you can   
   hear it at 0:05, 1:16 and 1:28 in this link...   
      
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wsYT1PRjIg   
      
   very strange sound... i was surprised to hear them in real life... i had heard   
   them in the TV series Colony and didn't know they were for real...   
      
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