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Ok I am new to all this but very interested. I am looking for help as I am planing on making a large ho scale layout featuring several types of Fire / Rescue Incidents. I was wondering if anyone has ideas on where i can buy or how I can make the following.
-working lightbars for the apparatus
-siren for the fire station to sound off
-a recordable board so that I can press a button and hear dispatch information to the incident.
Anyother help is greatly appreciated. I am a firefighter (Captaion) of 20 + years so this will be a very sweet preject when its finished. Thanks ahaed of time for any help.
Siren's/Sounds can be accomplished cheaply with small digital voice recorders...
Ok I am new to all this but very interested. I am looking for help as I am planing on making a large ho scale layout featuring several types of Fire / Rescue Incidents. I was wondering if anyone has ideas on where i can buy or how I can make the following.
-working lightbars for the apparatus
-siren for the fire station to sound off
-a recordable board so that I can press a button and hear dispatch information to the incident.
Anyother help is greatly appreciated. I am a firefighter (Captaion) of 20 + years so this will be a very sweet preject when its finished. Thanks ahaed of time for any help.
did you try a google search? "ho lightbar" yielded this as the very first link:
http://www.wholesaletrains.com/OProducts2.asp?Scale=None&Item=MNTRNSCP
Ram products has some of what your looking for as well.
http://www.ramrcandramtrack.com/rtlights.html
BF, the lightbars from Miniatronics should work well for adding light bars to fire apparatus. The only problem is that they will need a very stable 12 volt power source so you'll have to set up your scenes and then drill holes in the layout to feed the wires through to reach your power bus. It would not be feasible to move the scenes around on a regular basis. Check out e-bay as well since pre-built fire trucks with working lights show up there regularly.
As Josh said, recording a real station siren and radio traffic can be done with a cheap digital recorder. You can even have several so you can have normal radio traffic from one and the station siren on the other. What you'd probably want to do would be mount the recorders on a control panel and then run small speakers over to the fire station and the scenes you are setting up so the sounds come out in the right places.
I like that idea about running the speakers what i was thinking was having a control panel that observers can push a button to hear the call for each scene and light it up as well or does it seem more feasible to have tehm run on their own?
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