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Sesame Street EAS Test

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tom

The State of New Jersey was treated to about 20 seconds of Sesame Street this morning,
at about 9:46 when New Jersey Network (NJN) accidentally fired a Required Monthly Test (RMT)
of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and fed Sesame Street Audio (SSA)
 
Tom McNally said:
The State of New Jersey was treated to about 20 seconds of Sesame Street this morning,
at about 9:46 when New Jersey Network (NJN) accidentally fired a Required Monthly Test (RMT)
of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and fed Sesame Street Audio (SSA)
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I've searched and searched through the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) website and cannot find any reference to SSA. Could you point me to the section of the regulations (regs) where it is mentioned?


;)
 
dkocw said:
could've been worse, could have been an actual activation

this disaster is brought to you by the letter D
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How about a Pee Wee Herman test?

A tornado warning is in effect... TORNADO?? THAT'S THE SECRET WORD!!! AHAHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!



yeah... i'll go back to lurking now.
 
cawasinnj said:
I've searched and searched through the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) website and cannot find any reference to SSA. Could you point me to the section of the regulations (regs) where it is mentioned?
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Well, first off, you're looking in the wrong place. You may want to take a look here:
http://www.phdatastandards.info/knowresources/tutorials/glossary.htm#S

The definition states:

Social Security Administration (SSA) – The SSA is responsible for administering the Social Security program, which provides federal economic relief to citizens. The SSA also plays important roles in public health, including disability determination and supporting electronic death registration systems and occasionally triggering non-disaster EAS system tests strictly for the entertainment of those within certain state boundaries.

Contact Mister Elmo at the SSA for more information.
 
Be glad it got corrected in only 20 seconds! I've seen a couple cases in another state with two minutes of dead air (until EAS timed out)!

I know of another case where the transmittter dumped in severe thunderstorm and chopped off EOM, until generator kicked in. The station got a good idea after flood of complaints and recorded a EOM on the automation to play in case the transmitter dumped the next time.

Sounds like a simple mistake of the SSA audio got routed instead of: "...this has been a required monthly test of the EAS system..."

Like I said, sounds like a simple routing mistake and it could have been far worse!
 
This wasn't a case of "the wrong audio" since the monthly tests are scheduled to
alternate every other month from 11:50 AM to 12:50 AM. They NEVER do them at
9:46 AM. It was possibly a case of someone showing another person which
button to push, and then demonstrating with a little too much pressure.
 
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