Major Fail Of The new Emergency Broadcast System

[Ca.]

There are scattered report's of major inconstancy's of what was suppose to be a practice run of i guess, to iron out the bugs of the nation's alert program.

i guess it's back too the drawing broad........

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Re: National EAS Test Failures
« Reply #2 on: Today at 01:12:15 PM »

I live in Midland, Michigan.

It was a mess up here.
Local radio ran the data bursts and a voice announcement which was covered by more data bursts.
Dish Network displayed a short warning crawl before the test …. The test never arrived. One minute later, they displayed another crawl announcing the end of the test.
All in all, it was a total failure. Probably a failure on a nationwide basis.
If the broadcasters can’t get this simple test right ….. what will happen when they need to transmit the real thing?
Frank

Re: National EAS Test Failures
« Reply #7 on: Today at 01:18:12 PM

Can anybody beat this trainwreck.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15067584/20111109%20NAT%20EAS%20AUDIO.mp3

Re: National EAS Test Failures
« Reply #6 on: Today at 01:17:26 PM »

It amazes me that this is the first time that the Govt. has decided to test a system that has been around for years. With the failures reported, it's refreshing to know that the system would have failed during an actual emergency

I had pretty much the same results at stations in Waukegan IL (monitoring WGN-AM & WBBM-AM), and stations in Kenosha WI, (monitoring WHAD & WLWK). Received the EAN as I should, with beginning and EOM tones. However, the audio portion (if you want to call it that), was a mess. Lots of noise. I could hear a faint voice in the background trying to state it was a test, but it seemed to be cut off from completeing. One of the staffers called in an abortion.

Re: National EAS Test Failures
« Reply #18 on: Today at 01:31:38 PM »

is that real? DirecTV apparently just broadcasted Lady Gaga instead of the message?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNVp0fG1sQU

 

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To me..The last image is Very appropriate. Ahh... the wonderful technology of these times....


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[Guardian]

If the broadcasters can’t get this simple test right ….. what will happen when they need to transmit the real thing?

Public officials and more than 50% of the population will be reading various forums and blogs to learn what's really going on?

 

[Gimpy]

If the broadcasters can’t get this simple test right ….. what will happen when they need to transmit the real thing?

Public officials and more than 50% of the population will be reading various forums and blogs to learn what's really going on?

Yeah, I do that now. What makes me wonder? If the Idiot Brigade will use this failed test to insist on 'fixing the system' by controlling the internet instead of actually fixing anything.

An example here of what I mean: _http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/opinion/taking-aim-at-internet-rules.html?_r=1