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National EAS Test Failures

greg.hahn

greg.hahn

We got the test in Louisville but it had no audio, other than a lot of background noise.

What were the other experiences across the country?
 
Just got off the phone with GM's at other stations. It looks like some (or all) of my station's didn't get the test at all. Out here in Calif.
 
I live in Midland, Michigan.

It was a mess up here.
Local radio ran the data bursts and a voice announcement which was covered by more data bursts.
Dish Network displayed a short warning crawl before the test …. The test never arrived. One minute later, they displayed another crawl announcing the end of the test.
All in all, it was a total failure. Probably a failure on a nationwide basis.
If the broadcasters can’t get this simple test right ….. what will happen when they need to transmit the real thing?

Frank
 
We got the test in Dayton with 30 seconds of static where the audio was supposed to go. The DASDEC saved a nice audio log of the static, I should upload it for amusement.
 
Around where I'm at currently in south Louisiana, it was 50/50. Inaudible on some, audible on others, no alert came through on a few stations.
 
It amazes me that this is the first time that the Govt. has decided to test a system that has been around for years. With the failures reported, it's refreshing to know that the system would have failed during an actual emergency ???
 
I had pretty much the same results at stations in Waukegan IL (monitoring WGN-AM & WBBM-AM), and stations in Kenosha WI, (monitoring WHAD & WLWK). Received the EAN as I should, with beginning and EOM tones. However, the audio portion (if you want to call it that), was a mess. Lots of noise. I could hear a faint voice in the background trying to state it was a test, but it seemed to be cut off from completeing. One of the staffers called in an abortion.
 
Comcast analog cable in Houston, instead of airing the test (or maybe after airing the test), displayed the same local spanish affiliate on every channel for approximately one minute.

KODA-FM failed to air any test at all. The other stations had bad quality with echos and data bursts going over the message.
 
Flop and a half here. NJ stations got it with "THIS IS A ----- [insert :30 seconds of static here]" and the duck farts.

The NYS station hasn't gotten it yet. Monitoring assignments are correct.....
 
Near Cleveland Ohio, We had double audio. the start of the test was going fine and then we heard another test start "underneath" the main audio.
 
techie2 said:
We got the test in Dayton with 30 seconds of static where the audio was supposed to go. The DASDEC saved a nice audio log of the static, I should upload it for amusement.
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Dayton and Louisville both get their feed from WLW in Cincinnati.
 
Not a lot different than what we've been hearing the past 14 years. Anytime there's a daisy chain, you get the multiple computer bursts, multiple tones, and at best an audio message you can barely understand.

We received the test on all five decoders, we sent the test on all five encoders, we logged it on all five printers. Great! So how is this going to keep our nation safe?
 
Central Indiana had its issues too...we recieved the test to hear 30-seconds of static.
 
greg.hahn said:
techie2 said:
We got the test in Dayton with 30 seconds of static where the audio was supposed to go. The DASDEC saved a nice audio log of the static, I should upload it for amusement.
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Dayton and Louisville both get their feed from WLW in Cincinnati.
Click to expand...

So the trouble must have been at or upstream of WLW. We got the scheduled Western Ohio RMT just fine this morning, so I don't think the problem is in any facilities you take care of.
 
NYC ran ok....double tones and attention tones under the entire thing. Audio was understandable but had a slight echo.

Proved the relay network worked and turned up the issues that FEMA and FCC needed to see.
 
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