I was nowhere near a radio (or TV, etc.) at 2 PM Wednesday.
How did local stations handle the national EAS test? Radio? TV? Cable/satellite?
How did local stations handle the national EAS test? Radio? TV? Cable/satellite?
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The Northeast Ohio National EAS Thread
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Basically, all the stations had a black screen with white text saying "This is a test of the Emercency Alert System", with the usual buzzer/horn and scratchy voice saying that this was a test.
Really, just your basic EAS test, only with every station doing it in sync, instead of at staggered intervals like usual.
Really, just your basic EAS test, only with every station doing it in sync, instead of at staggered intervals like usual.
From reports on various email lists I am on ... NE Ohio had same experience as most of the country... bad audio, overlapping "duck farts" .. and dead air .. over all a mess!.
http://www.thebdr.net/articles/fcc/eas/eas.html
Barry has a good summary of "what happened" including mp3 audio of one NE Ohio station ... WHBC.
Barry has a good summary of "what happened" including mp3 audio of one NE Ohio station ... WHBC.
Thanks for the excellent link, xmusicmatt.
Sounds like WHBC had the "looping audio" too, which, according to Barry's page, originated much higher up the food chain...
Sounds like WHBC had the "looping audio" too, which, according to Barry's page, originated much higher up the food chain...
OhioMediaWatch said:
Basically from what I read.. on Barry's page and the various engineering type list servs I am on ... The station higher up the chain (a PEP in MN) sent their audio of the test down the conference bridge that orginated the audio for the EAN test so in effect what was being sent to all the PEP stations from FEMA was the orginal audio with a short delay the audio from the MN PEP station airing the EAN ... and what you get in the end after the EAN travelled from PEP to SPs and LP1s and LP2s was the "mess" we all heard yesterday...
Not saying this should have happened... but I would think that FEMA Woulda had a ONE WAY AUDIO Bridge set up for something like this so that stations on the bridge (the PEPs) could not accidently send audio back down the pipe..
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