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Yesterday's EAS Shenannigans

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PainfulItch

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It was an epic error - Somebody in Snohomish County pushed the wrong button, and the EAS came across "Evacuation for all of Snohomish County". Didn't say it was a drill. And there was no follow up EAS saying it was in error.

Anybody here actually announce it? I heard one TV station did. I didn't.

Aren't we supposed to announce first and ask questions later?
 
Tuesday (Jan 8th) EAS Slip-Up

---You got that right!

ANYONE that sends a false or misleading EAS messages should be banned
from any 'further' EAS message generation!

I understand there's a meeting just TOMORROW (Weds 10th) of the actual 'EAS Committee'...

I know someone on the inside here - we'll see how this all fairs...
 
Hi. As this was apparently county-wide, may we assume it came from Snohomish County DEM? I couldn't find any evidence it originated out of either of the SW Snohomish County agencies that have EAS terminals.
 
Semi-related...

What radio station is the primary EAS for Seattle--
KIRO, KOMO, or is there a big-stick FM in the mix?
 
KIRO/KOMO had nothing to do with it. It originated from Snohomish County.
 
The EAS ERROR

HERE IS THE OFFICAL REPORT FROM THE EAS COMMITTEE:
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The EAS message from the Snohomish County Sheriff's Dept arrived Monday evening.

It was automatically relayed onto all western Washington NOAA Weather Radio stations
per current protocol with the State of Washington Emergency Alert System (EAS) Plan.

From this - it was also received by many broadcast stations and cable systems.
At this time they have no idea of who all relayed it from that point; Some did, some did not.

The Snohomish County Sheriff's office was conducting training for an individual.
That individual inadvertently sent the EAS message live instead of in a test mode,
hence activating the system that was heard.

Snohomish County issued an apology for the inadvertent EAS message on Monday evening.
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--re the question of "What radio station is the primary EAS for Seattle":
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KIRO is the Primary Entry Point for - 'NATIONAL EAS messages - or EAN's'

This does not make KIRO the 'Primary EAS Station'
other than its role on the national level

EAS has 4 'flavors':
National
Weather
State
Local

..each flavor is handled a bit differently.
 
Thanks, Tom. That was totally informative. I had no idea.
 
EAS Test question...

When doing a weekly test for EAS you have the message - THIS IS A TEST OF THE EAS SYSTEM...
play the tones then back to music or do you have an out message that says ... this has been a test
of the EAS system....describing the area coverage ...had this been an actual...

I've heard this both ways... some do in and out messages ... some just play the in and the tones.

Monthly test are different?

Thanks
 
ginkgotree said:
EAS Test question...

When doing a weekly test for EAS you have the message - THIS IS A TEST OF THE EAS SYSTEM...
play the tones then back to music or do you have an out message that says ... this has been a test
of the EAS system....describing the area coverage ...had this been an actual...

I've heard this both ways... some do in and out messages ... some just play the in and the tones.

Monthly test are different?

Thanks
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Weekly tests only require the tones to broadcast. Some stations have a beginning, middle and end message. Others have any combination to none of the above. When I worked at an LP-1 that had its EAS done completely manually and sourced through the board (it was always attended), I used to run the beginning message followed by the beginning and ending tones and then get back into music. Some of the other jocks ran a middle message while several others ran the message at the end with no middle. There were only two messages to pick from.

Monthly tests require, at the very least, a middle message in addition to the tones. Remember, monthly tests also have the attention tone severe weather alerts have. I don't think anything else is required as a fairly sizeable percentage of stations run unattended and just broadcast the EAS message when it comes down the system with no way to insert a beginning or an end. The LP-1 I was at had a beginning message and a middle message and was back to music following the ending tone.
 
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