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KODA failed to broadcast the EAS

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mikerichardson

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KODA completely failed to broadcast any EAS.

KTBZ was silent for most of the test.

Every other station I tried seemed to work right but the audio quality was awful.

The Comcast analog cable at my apartment, for about a minute - and this was so weird - they had the same spanish programming on EVERY channel. I flipped through about 20 channels, and then it said "EAS TEST", and then every channel went back to the correct programming.
 
I was watching WGN and right before the test the channel started to mess up with all the little fuzzy squares and then after the 2nd test the channel was still less up for about 2min weird
 
There are problems reported all over the country from small markets to major markets reporting varying degrees of problems with the test. Many received nothing. On All Access, one individual summed it up like this:

They wanted to see where the system had weak points. They sure found out. How about at the TOP. We run weekly and monthly tests all the time with absolutely no problems. Every week. Every month. One National Level test by the Feds and it's a total failure. If we fail to fulfill our EAS requirements there are consequences. What are the consequences for the geniuses who run this thing when they fail????

Another poster:

In southern New Mexico, we received the tones, but no audible message. A friend in Murray, KY said the message was somewhat audible. And WPLJ in NYC had NO audible message.

It was NOT a total success, obviously.
 
Hey Obama! Want to let the entire country know that we've got a problem? Just post it on facebook. Btw: The next test is going to be on your phones and the internet, don't be afraid it's only a test! What are the folk's in charge really planning for us folk's?
 
Chuck Tiller said:
They wanted to see where the system had weak points. They sure found out. How about at the TOP.
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When you daisy chain the audio, it doesn't take much to break it as it goes across the country. But that's why you test.
 
johndavis said:
Chuck Tiller said:
They wanted to see where the system had weak points. They sure found out. How about at the TOP.
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When you daisy chain the audio, it doesn't take much to break it as it goes across the country. But that's why you test.
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John, you made it appear that was my quote. The quote is from All Access commenters, which I indicated. I was merely passing info from those who experienced the test.

Additionally, those stations which had the dark gray SAGE box, received no tones and no message. Those boxes were not required to be installed till next summer. Those stations that have the blue SAGE boxes apparently worked fine.
 
Chuck Tiller said:
John, you made it appear that was my quote. The quote is from All Access commenters, which I indicated. I was merely passing info from those who experienced the test.
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Sorry to have stripped your formatting.

Part of the problem appears to have been the looping audio, where the alert tones ended up playing on top of the message. Some of the Sage boxes went silent when they decoded the extra tones (the box assumes that you missed an EOM and aborts). Nobody's figured out where that came from yet.

The Dallas PEP didn't get any audio at all.
 
At KYND, everything worked as it should but it was a tad confusing. After the National Weather Service says they will not participate, they send the chirps and tones, then KTRH fires its tones and chirps overriding our programming. The text begins just as another set of tones and chirps fires off followed by the audio message at the same time (KUHF maybe) other chirps and tones in background, making the KTRH message hard to understand. Luckily all the tones and chirps didn't freak out the Gorman Redlich and I understand we should feel fortunate the new Sage unit is still in the box waiting to be installed.

One person I spoke with said he counted 8 separate tests under the KTRH feed. Anybody have any clues as to why? Might it be a software issue the EAS manufacturers need to fix?
 
RadioStarOne said:
Hey Obama! Want to let the entire country know that we've got a problem? Just post it on facebook. Btw: The next test is going to be on your phones and the internet, don't be afraid it's only a test! What are the folk's in charge really planning for us folk's?
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What does Obama have to do with the EAS test? He's not pushing any buttons. Not every single person has or cares to have Facebook, so how is that going to help us. Your comment makes no sense..."Btw."
 
bturner said:
One person I spoke with said he counted 8 separate tests under the KTRH feed. Anybody have any clues as to why? Might it be a software issue the EAS manufacturers need to fix?
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The EAS box shouldn't be mixing audio together from the different sources. When it senses an alert header on one of the inputs, it should lock onto that input; when KUHF rebroadcast what KTRH sent, your box should log it but not do anything else. (After all, when KUHF relays the RMT that came from KTRH, you don't send a second RMT even though you monitor both.)

The question that hasn't been answered yet is whether the bad audio originated that way from FEMA or whether it snowballed as it was forwarded. They didn't have that problem during the Alaska test, but yesterday that message was garbage from DC to Honolulu.
 
RadioStarOne said:
Hey Obama! Want to let the entire country know that we've got a problem? Just post it on facebook. Btw: The next test is going to be on your phones and the internet, don't be afraid it's only a test! What are the folk's in charge really planning for us folk's?
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It reminds me of that Preparedness PSA. The man says "We will go online for updates." Hello Einstien Internet Access will not work when the power lines and phone lines are down. That PSA was done back around 2005. I have been trying to look for it on YouTube. In 2005 Ipads did not exist.

Even with an Ipad if the network is congested and the cell tower is knocked down, go online for updates? No dice.
 
sdh483 said:
RadioStarOne said:
Hey Obama! Want to let the entire country know that we've got a problem? Just post it on facebook. Btw: The next test is going to be on your phones and the internet, don't be afraid it's only a test! What are the folk's in charge really planning for us folk's?
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What does Obama have to do with the EAS test? He's not pushing any buttons. Not every single person has or cares to have Facebook, so how is that going to help us. Your comment makes no sense..."Btw."
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Very true. I don't have Facebook out of choice. If the EAS announcement had failures, I'm glad it was during a testing phase instead of a real emergency. They now know what they need to work on and (hopefully) can improve things before a real crisis.
 
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