National EAS Test 2/24/16

[dfwupallnight]

Did anyone else here hear the National EAS Test today? (1:21 CST approximately)

The guy reading it sounded a bit creepy to me, I was wondering where it originated.

Here's audio of it: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3uXDCnH44O9aDE2MVNRa2JjM1U

 

[CTListener]

Did anyone else here hear the National EAS Test today? (1:21 CST approximately)

The guy reading it sounded a bit creepy to me, I was wondering where it originated.

Here's audio of it: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3uXDCnH44O9aDE2MVNRa2JjM1U

It's obviously a synthesized voice, probably originating in the same sort of software that produces the voices heard on NOAA weather radio stations nationwide.

 

[LibertyNT]

I don't think many stations relayed it. A quick look at a Sage unit indicates for many stations it might have went log only (no relay / rebroadcast)

 

[Robert Bass]

I had no idea this was even scheduled...

R

 

[davideduardo]

It's obviously a synthesized voice, probably originating in the same sort of software that produces the voices heard on NOAA weather radio stations nationwide.

Even creepier: it sounds like a bureaucrat trying to sound like a radio announcer.

 

[ABMedia1]

it came from CAP...

interesting story about this though, i was in the truck, i was listening to am 1500 was bands scanning and their EAS goes off because of this... KJIM EAS unit i never really heard go off before... so when i heard it go off i thought this can't be good... so i turn on the station i work for KQDR, that was going off then i go to KMKT and KMAD their EAS is going off now pretty much all sherman denison stations EAS went off because of this... i even heard that channel 12's EAS event went off... turns out this was a test that came from fema... sent in via cap... the alert was limited to the entire south... all of the states in the south were affected... so but they did announce an National EAS Test for later this year i will try and find the date...

 

[Robert Bass]

So it was a test of just how screwed up the system is? I know, I know... I'm preaching to the choir.

R

 

[KML0224]

This appeared on WGME-TV (CBS) channel 13 of Portland, ME during one of their evening newscasts, on Wednesday, February 24th:

The counties in blue are the Maine counties for the Portland/Poland Spring TV market. I think it also includes Coos and Carroll Counties, New Hampshire, too.