National Emergency Alert System Test October 04

Jo C.

May be upsetting for our Loved Ones with dementia:

ALERT: For those who are unaware, tomorrow, Wednesday, October 04, there will be a massive testing of the National Emergency Alert System on cell phones, radio stations and TV stations across the entire U.S. The cell phone sound should be rather loud or vibrating or both. See link below for full explanation as to how and why.

The time frame across the U.S.:

The alert will air at the same moment across every time zone in the country starting at 2:20 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Oct. 4. The time will vary across time zones, so look to see when you might be alerted.

• 2:20 p.m. EDT
• 1:20 p.m. CDT
• 12:20 p.m. MDT
• 11:20 a.m. PDT
• 10:20 a.m. ADT
• 8:20 a.m. HST

The test is scheduled to last approximately one minute. It will only go out once, there will be no repeats.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/massive-emergency-alert-test-scheduled-091140052.html

Sorry I did not think to Post this earlier.

J.

Ed1937

Thanks Jo. I didn't know about that.

ghphotog

Yes, I work for a television broadcast company and it's my job to oversee the National EAS on our station meaning I file all the FCC reports and visually verify the alert flew properly. We have 7 different channels and the EAS has to fly properly on all of them. I ran a RWT "Required Weekly Test" on Monday just to make sure everything would be in working order for today. Well there were problems with the RWT for some reason as it's worked fine every week until now. Go figure!! Anyway our engineer has fixed the issue I believe so it should be fine today. I'll have my DW with me at work but I don't think it will bother her too much as she'll be in my office and not in MC. "Master Control".

mcguava

It worked great here on the West Coast. I'm glad I saw the story in the NY Times. But another alert about an alert is welcome!