Today's Nationwide EAS Test

[duffy]

Anyone hear it? I happened to be listening - it was a garbled mess, with several unintelligible overlaid signals.

And in some places, apparently, it played Lady Gaga.

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/11/08/authorities-dont-panic-tomorrow-its-only-a-test/

 

[tcmtech]

Around here they do regular tests and actual use of the Emergency Broadcast System on the local radio stations and it too rarely works as it should.

Usually the actual emergency reports go like this, The alert tones sound followed by 40 - 50 seconds of silence then part of the first sentence or two about the weather related emergency, usually broadcast in too faint of speech to understand, then that cut off by the end of broadcast tones where it then immediately drops right into whatever commercial or song is playing.

Basically all it does is get you curious as to what might be happening since the actual what and where parts have almost always been cut off so that you will then go and look it up on the internet to see what is really happening and where.

(This is a test and only a test. Had an actual emergency occurred you would either already know about it or have kissed your butt goodbye long before this broadcast had been sent out. Thank you and this concludes our test of the emergency broadcast system. Now back to the last few seconds of the only good song this radio station has managed to play all day. )

 

[nsaspook]

We had nothing statewide. https://www.katu.com/news/local/133555423.html

No warning at all.

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[duffy]

So it didn't work in Oregon, Illinois, or Wisconsin. Wonder if it worked anywhere.

 

[tcmtech]

So it didn't work in Oregon, Illinois, or Wisconsin. Wonder if it worked anywhere.

So the part about it being handled by FEMA didn't give it away as to how well it could be expected to work?

 

[Reloadron]

So the part about it being handled by FEMA didn't give it away as to how well it could be expected to work?

Now, that was funny.

I remember hearing about it yesterday early morning on the way to work but have no clue if it did or did not work as to Ohio anyway. Besides, if the US Government (FEMA) is involved it will likely fail by design.

Ron