Who carries a WHISTLE!

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Seeing as there have been recent threads about who carries a lighter, and what type of flashlight one carries, I was curious: Who carries a whistle? What kind is it? How does it work and how do you like it?
 
My favorite is an Acme T2000 with sides filed down but lately I have been carrying a white Acme 636 on a yarn neck lanyard, I often carry an Acme 560 pea whistle, for many years I carried an Acme 60.5, I recommend the Acme 660 for kids or anyone who wants a good but inexpensive whistle..

The Fox 40 is very good but I find Acme more portable, I haven't had a chance to try the new Fox Howler but have heard that it is very good.

Here's a related thread that I started some time ago:

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=346240

Luis
 
I have a nice, flat, bright-orange Perry whistle on my keyring (along with a flint rod, utilikey, photon-clone, dogtag, glowring & spy capsule)
 
I have a black Fox 40 in a pocket of my vest that I keep in my truck.
 
What do you guys use your whistle for? I carried one for a little while but as the key chain got bulkier and summer clothing came along... it was the first to go. If I was going out into the wilderness I might consider carrying it... but thats about it.
 
I've carried a whistle for many many years, it is of course a signaling device, be it for refereeing or coaching, directing traffic, dog training, indicating your position, sending a warning (as alarm), signaling codes, use when you have to lead a group, etc.. A good thing to have if you walk on the streets at night (not only here in Mexico City, LOL), useful when camping and to give to children in school outings or even in the mall (teach children that it is not a toy), If you ever have to wear a life vest it should have a whistle attached to it.

This is my white Acme 636 in a yarn (breakaway) lanyard, it wont print under a shirt and you wont feel it's there, but it will be good to have it if you need it.

Luis

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I usually carry either small Fox 40 or an Acme "Metropolitan". The Acme is a really wide whistle but isn't so bad in a bag or coat pocket. I like the look of the whiste Luis has. Looks flat and loud!
Matt
 
My wife and I started carrying whistles this year, but haven't used them often. I ride a bicycle and take long walks on our country roads during the summer and have used a whistle on a neck lanyard to scare away dogs which chase me.

I inherited a half dozen 1950s-60s vintage chromed metal whistles from my dad who was a school teacher and administrator. We also have a couple of black plastic whistles bought at a police/fire store 20+ years ago, but we carry the old chrome metal whistles instead.
 
I have a Tool Logic SL1 with a whistle built into the handle. It's a handy little knife/light combo but I've never used the whistle. Can't imagine I ever will but it's high on the gadget-o-meter.

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Cool! I see some interesting whistles I've never seen before; I may be getting some new noise-makers. :D
 
I carry a regular referee-type whistle while orienteering. Three blasts repeated at several second intervals is the recognized distress signal.

I've contacted Peter Atwood a couple of times about purchasing one of his whistles but something else has always come up preventing me from buying. I still want one, though. Maybe after the holidays...
 
A whistle is a very underrated and vital piece of survival equipment. I EDC one.

I have found our own Don Luis a wonderful resource about whistles here on BFC - his thread referenced above - Pics of some of my Whistles is very worthwhile.

Preferences like opinions can (obviously) vary - among the loudest whistles "in the world" some by testing and/or measurements are the Storm, Fox40 and Acme T-2000 Tornado. With the T-2000 actually claiming to be the loudest.

Just going by loudness is not such a bad thing - but it's kind of like picking a knife because someone said it was the sharpest - then finding out it is really one of those waffer blades used for slicing microscope samples.

OK at least with whistles one is not going to make such an obvious mistake.... or are we? The Storm is a wonderful whistle in terms of performance - I would almost put it up as a benchmark -

BUT have you seen the size of the thing?
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Even though opinions and preferences can differ my personal choice and EDC actually is the same as Don Luis's current carry the Acme Slimline Tornado 636 - neither of us probably consider it as the "loudest" or even the "best" - but by sheer anecdotal evidence that we both carry them possibly means they are doing something right?

In Post #39 in the referenced thread I did some ad-hoc (non-scientific) tests by simply blowing the whistles and tried to work out which sounded loud and attention grabbing - purely subjectively - and bear in mind I am doing the blowing and listening - which cannot account for how far the sounds will carry for distance.......

I really liked the Storm's performance - but OMG the size of the thing! and the smaller WindStorm is "smaller" - but still huge.......

Both the Fox40 and the Acme T-2000 Tornado were loud - no doubts about that - but they seemed just kind of sharp/shrill to me.

The Acme Slimline Tornado 636 - among one of the cheapest whistles - not only seemed loud - it seemed to me to have a distinct advantage of a varying and "trilling" tone - I think it comes from the fact it has 3 channels - for 3 different tones - but they all face up so there is some sound interference to produce some varying in tone - like movement catches the eye - varying tones catches the ears' attention - or at least that's what I think.

Doug Ritter on Equipped to Survive has good articles about whistles -

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