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Nationwide EAS Test 11/9 2:00 PM EST

This is excellent, Knowing eas can get annoying at times, but heh I like the idea of national eas system.

reply to owlyn
Never heard of a Silver Alert.

I do know its annoying already when an Amber Alert from somewhere up in North NJ interrupts Jeopardy down here in SNJ.
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listen silver alerts are used to locate missing elderly people, but a silver alert is not part of the emergency alert system protocols currently in place. there has never been a national amber alert because its just too messy. I mean maybe a regional alert with bordering states would occur if local fails but who knows but the cops.

Anyway I look forward to the EAS national test and actually have been working hard making sure everything is going to work when it occurs. Hopefully all will be good and it lasts for like an hour each month.

reply to Linklist
The National system has always existed since back in the days of Conlrad, followed by EBS, and now EAS. A public National alert has never been sent on purpose up until this one comes in November.
Provided the National system stays on target, if you were to receive a real National Alert, an EAN (Emergency Action Notification) , it pretty much means that WW3 had started and nukes are in the air inbound as well as outbound.

As a bit of history, there once was an accidental activation, that didn't propagate across the country as it should have but it did happen. One station that followed like it should is here...

reply to owlyn
If anyone has any questions about the emergency alert system please just let me know and I'll answer what I can.

As for videos you can find a ton of real and fake EAS alerts if examples are ever needed.

A statewide EAS test occurred twice in Alaska when they were working out the bugs and testing out new things as a precursor to this national test. Here are some more resources.
»transition.fcc.gov/pshs/techtopi···s21.html
»www.fema.gov/emergency/ipaws/eas_info.shtm

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Re: Nationwide EAS Test 11/9 2:00 PM EST

reply to owlyn
what exactly is this test for? They haven't used the national emergency system in years. Was it even activated for pearl harbor or three mile island?
I know it wasn't activated for 9-11 even though most of the country shut down (major airports and even amtrak/greyhound i do beleive).

"Prior to 1951, there was no method that the U.S. government could use to broadcast warnings to citizens in the event of an emergency. However, radio stations and networks could interrupt normal programming and issue a bulletin in the event of an emergency, as happened during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, as well as the first successful tornado warning near Tinker Air Force Base in 1948. This type of broadcasting was the forerunner to CONELRAD.

CONELRAD (Control of Electromagnetic Radiation) was a method of emergency broadcasting to the public of the United States in the event of enemy attack during the Cold War. It was intended to serve two purposes; to prevent Soviet bombers from homing in on American cities by using radio or TV stations as beacons, and to provide essential civil defense information. U.S. President Harry S. Truman established CONELRAD in 1951. After the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles reduced the likelihood of a bomber attack, CONELRAD was replaced by the Emergency Broadcast System on August 5, 1963, which was later replaced with the Emergency Alert System in 1997; all were administered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).[1]"

»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conelrad

"The nationwide federal EAS has never been activated."

»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Alert_System

reply to mikedz4
During the September 11 attacks in 2001, "... the EAS was not activated nationally or regionally in New York or Washington during the terrorist attacks on the nation." Richard Rudman, then chairman of the EAS National Advisory Committee explained that near immediate coverage in the national media meant that the media itself provided the warning or alert of what had happened and what might happen as quickly as the information could be distributed. "Some events really do serve as their own alerts and warnings. With the immediate live media coverage, the need for an EAS warning was lessened." 34 PEP stations were kept on high alert for use if the President had decided to order an Emergency Action Notification. "PEP is really a last-ditch effort to get a message out if the president cannot get to the media."

The test is to make sure that the equipment actually CAN work properly if something were to happen to require it to be activated. Would you rather we find out during an emergency that something isnt working or would you rather it be tested and fixed before? »www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/emergen···ide-test

reply to SmokChsr

Re: Nationwide EAS Test 11/9 2:00 PM EST

reply to SmokChsr
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.

reply to Mike Wolf
I was asked to explain the different types of tests for training so please bare with me.

For tests, customers only see four versions:
• the ones done by broadcast stations such as ABC, NBC, and CBS:

reply to Russ

reply to owlyn
There are people all over the place bitching about this test, and how it's just the government taking over all forms of communication and denying free specch. Look at the comments on this article: »www.theblaze.com/stories/did-you···n-nov-9/

My response to them: *YAWN*
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