• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Emergency Alert System goof up...

K

katzradio

Anyone catch the Emergency Alert System broadcast this afternoon? I was listening to WHP 580 and all that came across was an intelligible mess. I was looking at some other boards and it seems that it was a big flop all over the dial.
 
when you were listening to WHP on Wednesday at 2pm how did you differentiate between the " intelligible mess" on the emergency alert system test and WHPs normal progrming at that hour of the day ( Rush Limbaugh)?
 
lol -

I just popped in for a moment to hear the alert since it was hyped so much. Last night it was talked about a lot on overnight talk radio stations. Apparently the technical problems were very widespread.

I'm surprised that no one is commenting about it on here, since it is of such national importance that they have the system working correctly "in the event of an actual emergency..."
 
It aired on WGAL in it's entirety, although not straight up at 2. By the time it winnowed it's way through the system it was 2:03. Don't know about any of the other TV stations, although when I looked up at the monitors WGAL was the only one that was running it. They may have run it a little earlier, or later, or not at all.
 
Looks like they have some bugs to work out of the system they're using. Bet there will be more. I heard the inital test at 2 on WBAL-1090 but no one else.
 
John-Summers said:
It aired on WGAL in it's entirety, although not straight up at 2. By the time it winnowed it's way through the system it was 2:03. Don't know about any of the other TV stations, although when I looked up at the monitors WGAL was the only one that was running it. They may have run it a little earlier, or later, or not at all.
Click to expand...

From what I read, somehow the alert was tagged at the (FEMA) source as being issued at 2:03. (that's certainly what the tape said at our station; I'd assumed the clock at our LP1 was wrong. Apparently not.)

I understand some decoders felt they couldn't relay an EAN that hadn't happened yet ;) and held it until 2:03.
 
FEMA's clock was 3 minutes off. That caused some issues with a certain brand of encoder/decoder popular with TV stations. The digital Sage unit caused problems on some stations because FEMA had some additional FSK tones in the feed causing the digital Sage unit to stop recording the entire audio test. The test does take a bit of time to work down through the various links so some stations may have aired it slightly later than others.
 
pdgreatness said:
FEMA's clock was 3 minutes off. That caused some issues with a certain brand of encoder/decoder popular with TV stations. The digital Sage unit caused problems on some stations because FEMA had some additional FSK tones in the feed causing the digital Sage unit to stop recording the entire audio test. The test does take a bit of time to work down through the various links so some stations may have aired it slightly later than others.
Click to expand...

Oh good grief...

Well, if these guys can't get their act together how are they supposed to assist us in an actual emergency. You mean they don't somehow have their systems/clocks synced with the atomic clock that broadcasts the exact time?

And, what is their explanation for all the reverberation/static/bad audio that many stations experienced?
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom