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National EAS Test 11/9 2 PM ET

It would be funny if the originating station fails to transmit the EOM code and then they're heard on every station in the country.
 
I laughed when I read the quote from one of those interviewed that "without the coordinated test, we wouldn't know whether the system works." (paraphrased).

Okay, so EBS and EAS have been around for how many years, yet it has just occurred to them that maybe they should test the system to determine whether it even functions? Too funny!
 
Will be interesting to see how they choose to originate this test ... and how long it takes to propagate from one end of the country to the other.

I also wonder if the Full Comedy Cooperative realizes that the EAS standard is for a maximum 2 minute message, not 3 1/2 minutes.
 
Nick said:
It would be funny if the originating station fails to transmit the EOM code and then they're heard on every station in the country.
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Funny? Yes. Surprising? No. I have to words about this 'test': swine fornication. We all need to make sure there is an operator in the control room when this goes down so we can take the air chain back when/if it does blow up.
 
radiorob2.0 said:
Is this the test where we move to 640/1240 or is this the test where we have to shut down the carrier for five seconds? ;D
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The next system will require us to peck on the keyboard of a toy piano with our beaks.... and we'll get rewarded for doing it.... won't that be something|?|
 
TomZ said:
radiorob2.0 said:
Is this the test where we move to 640/1240 or is this the test where we have to shut down the carrier for five seconds? ;D
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The next system will require us to peck on the keyboard of a toy piano with our beaks.... and we'll get rewarded for doing it.... won't that be something|?|
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They should have scheduled the national EAS test this past February 20, forty years after the wrong tape was loaded. http://ebstest.stlmedia.net/

The only audio evidence was an aircheck of Bob Sievers handling the situation at WOWO.
 
TomZ said:
radiorob2.0 said:
Is this the test where we move to 640/1240 or is this the test where we have to shut down the carrier for five seconds? ;D
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The next system will require us to peck on the keyboard of a toy piano with our beaks.... and we'll get rewarded for doing it.... won't that be something|?|

Maybe somebody will stick in the "singing test" from back in the 70's!
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"The next system will require us to peck on the keyboard of a toy piano with our beaks.... and we'll get rewarded for doing it.... won't that be something|?" I can hear it now. "...But this chicken can play tick-tac-tow!!!!"
 
The viability of national EAS was thrown out the window when it wasn't used on Sept 11, 2001.

EAS serves a purpose for local use (tornado warning, amber alerts, etc...) but on the national level, it could be deemed too little too late.

Also AFAIK, this national test is a test of the new CAP (Next Gen Eas) protocol.
 
This is not a test of the CAP. It is a test of the EAN event code. It will originate in Washington, DC, go through dedicated links to each state's PEP station(s) and then by daisy-chain through the LPs to the end-of-line stations. The EAN code is supposed to be handled live by the EAS units - not recorded and forwarded like RMTs. Get ready for one big 100 kW feedback squeal from LPs that monitor each other.
 
The events of September 11, 2001 did not fit the definition of an EAN or require the activation of the system. All conventional news media was functional throughout the unfortunate and tragic events of that day. The EAN code is unique and can only be thoroughly tested by actually transmitting one and measuring the results across the system. There have been two test of the system in Alaska using EAN hot codes. Be aware that aborting the EAN could be a violation of FCC rules. If a station is locked up by an EAN, the best recovery is to transmit an RWT, of coarse if there is no actual event in progress; otherwise stations down-stream will be carrying the audio of the originating station. A lot was learned in these test up in Alaska as well as the inadvertent release in the state of Illinois a few years back.
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oldiesstation said:
Feel sorry for those that tune in after the "This a just a test".Orson Wells all over again...
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I am afraid that I have to agree, especially for those in the already EAS exhausted tornado and other storm prone areas. On this, there needs to be the kind of 24/7 publicity that existed just prior to the digital tv switchover. Some may disagree, but I can just see the panic headlines of later that day. There are so many people that probably would be just ignoring or halfway listening to the This Is A Test part of it.
 
One could always pull the plug on the EAS decoder. I suspect Nov. 9th was chosen because it's very unlikely that any kind of severe weather would develop that day.
 
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