Thanks, but I mean

[Christian H]

Hi,

thanks for answering to everyone  but I mean what discribution of the engine- to choice the right DCC-sound-decoder?Also SD70 Alaska(the type who Kato released in HO 2006), RS3 Canadian, C44 Dash 9W U.P., AC4400 Canadian Pacific,GP35 Canadian Pacific and F40PH Amtrak. And what for rules to choice the right horns?

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Christian H

Hi,

thanks for answering to everyone  but I mean what discribution of the engine- to choice the right DCC-sound-decoder?Also SD70 Alaska(the type who Kato released in HO 2006), RS3 Canadian, C44 Dash 9W U.P., AC4400 Canadian Pacific,GP35 Canadian Pacific and F40PH Amtrak. And what for rules to choice the right horns?

Whoops! Sorry about that. That is a whole different question. I may be mistaken, but isn't QSI or LokSound based over there, somethere, possibly in Europe. If so, you might be able to get to them more easily. Otherwise, I'd go look at the Soundtraxx and Tsunami decodes. For the deisels, Soundtraxx is more affordable but still awesome, Tsunami is new to the diesel market, also made by Soundtraxx, but a step or three up in quality.

http://soundtraxx.com/price/ 

Dabble around up there for a while. Most of your engines are modern era, geneeration 2 or three. you can also sort y maker, and they have a sound demo as well. If you scroll way down to the bottom, you get the inexpensive, but still very good Sound decoders by company (EMD etc) and generation. For more help on that subject, refer to the previous thread where we misunderstood your question.

As for picking the proper horn, plug the decoder in, and either pick ones you like, or compare to a Youtbe video of the engine. Count the number of horns on top of the loco, if there's 5, it's a five chime and you need something that sounds like 5 distinctive notes. If there's just one, then your wanting a single chime solo note horn.

[wjstix]

Canadian regulations require all engines to use the same three-chime airhorn. Soundtraxx recently came out with a first-generation EMD (diesels before the GP-30) decoder that has that horn. Not sure if other manufacturers make it in their choices of horns.