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National EAS Test Failures

I was listening to WOWO in Fort Wayne at the time. Got the header, got the alert tone, and got a very, VERY brief first part of the first syllable of the voice message before the feedback loop kicked in and started a continually diminishing repeat of the header, alert tone, and first part of the first syllable.

Gotta love Cold War-era government technology.
 
Gainesville/Ocala Florida......Header/EOM fine.....same thing with audio I am reading on previous posts. I was hearing tones in the background, garbled audio, and bad noise in foreground. Could not understand anything that was going out on the air.
 
What a snafu! I'm in Knoxville today, seems like one of the better markets but it seemed that WNOX 100.3 did not carry the test.

Curious what other stations the Nashville and LA recordings were picking up. No one else should be on 650 anywhere near Nashville, or who would Nashville have been picking up the interference from?

I think we now know why it would have been a total waste of time to have done a national activation on 9/11.

Now if Bob Sievers would have still been alive and on WOWO today...............well let's say wherever he is, he's having good laugh today
 
In San Diego most stations did very well, Thank God that AM 600 KOGO installed their PEP gear at the transmitter. It was a decent feed and the test was received well and no real problems with most of the local stations.
 
Did any of the shortwave broadcasters participate?
I seem to recall something about shortwave being, automatically, a non-participating station. As such, shouldn't they have made the "special" announcement about how they would normally have to go off the air?
 
NWS didn't carry the test, so even if a station is monitoring it (which all of mine were) it wouldn't have helped in this case.

WWV is a terrible idea due to the propagation effects at different times of day on the different frequencies. That would be worse than trying to monitor an AM PEP station. Especially if your studios are located in a high rise office building and/or your transmitter is on top of another high rise. With all the consumer junk throwing out RF interference, fuhgeddit.
 
More YouTube videos have been posted confirming that DirecTV aired a Lady Gaga song instead of the correct message.
 
WEVL Memphis received and ran the test with similar issues of double duck farts, somewhat noisy audio, and fortunately the correct EOM duck farts to return to programming. I don't know about anyone else in Memphis.
 
kenglish said:
Did any of the shortwave broadcasters participate?
I seem to recall something about shortwave being, automatically, a non-participating station. As such, shouldn't they have made the "special" announcement about how they would normally have to go off the air?
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There is a Catch 22 there... US SW broadcasters are prohibited from serving domestic audiences, so a United States of America targeted EAS test would be in violation of the rules.
 
Looks like all the TV DASDEC units in our area either failed to relay the alert at all, or relay audio, or played audio after 3 minutes of silence.
 
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