A few other times thats happened, like, On June 26, 2007, the EAS in Illinois was activated at 7:35AM CDT and issued an Emergency Action Notification Message for the United States. This was followed by dead air and then WGN radio (the station designated to simulcast the alert message) being played on almost every television and radio station in the Chicago area and throughout much of Illinois. The accidental EAN activation was caused when a government contractor installing a new satellite receiver as part of a new national delivery path incorrectly left the receiver connected and wired to the state EOC's EAS transmitter before final closed circuit testing of the new delivery path had been completed and it never reached the rest of the nation.
I'm trying to find the .jpg's I have of the 1971 alert as it was transmitted via the AP's wire. Ahhh back in the days when the teletype was still the primary source for news.
Yeah I'm clueless as to the issue but whats nice is that basically all I get is a red banner with white text flashing across the top of my screen, the alert tones, but no voice on my SA8300 and Cisco RNG200N, a force tune to QVC with that blue screen with red border and white text on my DTA with the warning tone and no voice, and a red banner with white text scrolling across the top of my screen with no warning tone and voice on my Moxi because its optional.
It was black and white for me(black background, white text). There was EAS related text on the screen(I can't remember what it said), And a message about somebody requesting a test scrolled across the top of the screen. There were alert tones too.
It was force tuned to channel 4. QVC is channel 4 for you? Its CBS for me.
The interval between tests was actually decreasing before I fell asleep.
QVC is channel 3 for me. CBS is channel 2 for me. The alerts continued up until 4:50am for me, and I noticed my Moxi and the DTA would recieve and display the alert first, then approximately 3 minutes later my cableboxes alerted, so I was able to prepare myself for photos and video. This is essentially what happened
only the message script for all devices was "THE BROADCAST STATION OR CABLE SYSTEM HAS ISSUED A REQUIRED WEEKLY TEST FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES/AREAS: Monmouth; Ocean, NJ; New Jersey; AT (a time) ON OCT 26, 2011 EFFECTIVE UNTIL (a time) MESSAGE FROM NJ34025
Whats odd is the use of the word "the" instead of "a" in the beginning of the message, it doesnt sound right, does it?
I googled NJ34025, it seems to be an locality identifier (at least for the US Census folks) for Monmouth County, NJ based on the search results that came back....
I'm not sure how NJ is set up. That said, where ever the decoding box is that generated the alert, if it was set up to decode 34025 as a valid in area code, then it would relay that alert over its entire coverage area.
I work in radio broadcast in Florida, so to give an example I have the (EAS) boxes I program set up to respond to any alert that occurs in the coverage area of that radio station. So it may seem a bit odd to a listener in the South end of the coverage area that he just heard an alert for the far North end of the stations coverage, perhaps 100 miles away.
In the world of cable, it's always a guess as to what the boxes are set to decode and from where. I know with the local cable co, they decode at a distant headend who knows where and send the alert in with all the other programing. I've seen some alerts come in that were for 2 states away.
I've seen weirder where a customer from a small mom and pop cable provider was receiving tests from South Carolina. Anyway the FCC and FEMA and other various agencies will be tidying up the entire system piece by piece, section by section until its a model of efficient perfection. IPAWS is gonna make it alot better. »www.fema.gov/emergency/ipaws/
Yes When IPAWS comes online it should get a bit better. I've been requested to give a talk Saturday on EAS at a broadcasting conference. One of my requested topics of course was on what the new rules will be, and that is currently any ones guess. I guess I get to make some guesses this weekend.
Now for those who deliver you your EAS messages, the FCC just told us this week, that we HAVE to print out a new 24 page EAS handbook and place it at each EAS box for the test Nov 9.
Bear in mind, they didn't say we needed to read it, just that we must place it at the box before the test, and that we can remove it as soon as the test is complete. Also, the Alert code used for this test is an EAN. That particular code is the nationwide "Oh poop!" code. When it is received no one has to do anything. The box should immediately switch to the alert and retransmit it. "yes we can tell the other alerts to wait a bit or even go away if we want to".
So now we have to have a 24 page book at every EAS box to tell us we don't need to do anything.
So for those of you who are annoyed by the alerts, don't feel alone sometimes those of us who are sending them might even be a bit more annoyed.
If you have any questions you would like to know, please feel free to ask me in a private message and I'll try to answer them. It couldn't hurt to read that book as it may be found enlightening. »www.fema.gov/emergency/i ··· nfo.shtm »www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia ··· ide-test »apps.fcc.gov/easnt/home1.cfm Some equipment are automated and will pass along the alert in unmanned locations, where as others are manual and require intervention. Overall like I said before the IPAWS is going to make it alot more accurate so "false alerts" will be minimized. I'm mostly annoyed when people ask stupid questions, like this one thread »EAS warnings removal on comcast Motorola (HD TV boxes) My head almost exploded.
I was watching Piers Morgan Tonight last night and saw a 30 second ad for the National Emergency Alert System test. I'm sure that it'll be running on a majority of ad-supported networks between now and 11/9.
yes quite alot in fact, I just got off the phone with Tom Beers about that last week. big goal is to get the word out so theres no mass panic. the ads should be rolling out on most if not all channels at this point.
big goal is to get the word out so theres no mass panic. the ads should be rolling out on most if not all channels at this point.
It's good to get the word out.. Although I think the chance of another "War of the Worlds" is quite remote.
I don't know if this is good or bad but, anymore it's hard to get the public's attention much less cause a panic. As a fire fighter we had a fire in a hotel, as we are dragging hoses through the lobby, for those in the lobby , their main concern was that the hose didn't leak and water down their drinks.
Now had this test come between 12:30 and 1:30 EST, it might have caused a revolution, interrupting 'The Young and the Restless" can cause major troubles.
same here, I was looking forward to it. one of the points of the test being 3 minutes was to test out equipment to make sure it doesnt lock up or fail at the 2 minute mark.
my dct2000 does shit it's self after 2 minutes, this much I do know. we had a tornado rip though just south of me, eas went off and ran for a little over 5 minutes straight, my dct70 was still showing it but was not locked up (as in having to hard reboot) but that blasted "refurbished" as the sticker says dct2000 had to be hard reset twice and I still got that blasted box, i should go swap it I think.
wow. I'm sorry for the inconvenience dude. If I was you I'd definitely go ahead with that swap out for a different model. »www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pre ··· 226.html
