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Does anyone hate those EAS tests?

I'll tell you what I hate. The dang EAS primary in our area occasionally sends an off-the-wall test late at night or early in the morning, and then doesn't send the EOM codes. For the following three minutes or so on a local TV station, you're watching Seinfeld and hearing all kinds of digital noise over it. Geez, I hate it when they do that!




> Gosh! I hate those EAS tests...they are very annoying!
> Hearing or seeing those words "Emergency Alert System" got
> me freaked out already. I wish the FCC gets rid of the
> system and replace it with a new one similiar to the old EBS
> system, which I can get away with. Plus the tones totally
> bother my ears.
>
> On the TV side, the EAS test used on my local NBC station
> had the crawl running too fast. This is another way the EAS
> system is a constant annoyance. It also made me nervous when
> the stations runs into "dead air" because it could be a
> precursor to a possible EAS test.
>
> Today, I hear two weekly EAS tests ran on the broadcast
> stations in my area on Valentine's Day. Although those tests
> are shorter than the old EBS, they are still annoying, but
> not as annoying as its predecessor.
>
 
> Gosh! I hate those EAS tests...they are very annoying!
> Hearing or seeing those words "Emergency Alert System" got
> me freaked out already. I wish the FCC gets rid of the
> system and replace it with a new one similiar to the old EBS
> system, which I can get away with. Plus the tones totally
> bother my ears.
>
> On the TV side, the EAS test used on my local NBC station
> had the crawl running too fast. This is another way the EAS
> system is a constant annoyance. It also made me nervous when
> the stations runs into "dead air" because it could be a
> precursor to a possible EAS test.
>
> Today, I hear two weekly EAS tests ran on the broadcast
> stations in my area on Valentine's Day. Although those tests
> are shorter than the old EBS, they are still annoying, but
> not as annoying as its predecessor.
>

in some places (like Huntsville AL), where stations pretty much don't care about anything but themselves, the EAS is pretty much the only warning, if it even works, that is. During our last severe weather outbreak a tornado warning was issued for Madison county, I only heard the EAS on one station and the rest did nothing or were like there is a tornado warning for madison county, NOW HERE'S KEITH URBAN! rather than taking say 30 seconds to a minute at the most to give information on WHERE it is (or atleast simulcasting the TV stations like they used to do, 1230 AM did simulcast channel 48 for a little while and shortly dropped it just moments after they said there was a possible tornado on the ground in the next county). Those tones are annoying, yes, but they are supposed to be to get your attention. If they don't test it, how do they know it works at all? If you don't want to hear it, they make volume controls for a reason. Be glad that do test it, because around here maybe 2 or 3 stations may test it once a month or so.
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