National Emergency Alert Test November 9, 2pm

[Gibbs]

Just FYI:


"FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), will conduct the first nationwide Emergency Alert System (EAS) Test on November 9, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern..."

This will run across time zones. It may not be evident from the television message (over the three minute duration) that it is a test.

Link here.

 

[oniriggers]

I have a copy of an earlier un aired EAS public service announcement on chemical attacks and how we can protect ourselves.

 

[newportri]

Here is the official FCC website
http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/emergency-alert-system-nationwide-test

 

[Patriot0717]

Sooo, today is the day Skynet is brought on line.

 

[center442]

Sooo, today is the day Skynet is brought on line.

I've got my tin foil supply ready. Shiny side out for this scenario, correct?

 

[schnips]

I'll let your guys know if I see any black helicopters today

 

[MisterHappy]

I've got my tin foil supply ready. Shiny side out for this scenario, correct?

ALWAYS shiny side out!

If they tell you otherwise.....they're one of them, not one of us.

And, just so you know, the foils with the holiday holographic etchings are no better than standard.

 

[andyc4728]

I am ready.

 

[cyberlogicx]

ALWAYS shiny side out!

If they tell you otherwise.....they're one of them, not one of us.

And, just so you know, the foils with the holiday holographic etchings are no better than standard.

I hear that you need to plug your ears with it, the frequency they will broadcast was developed by the CIA for mind control.

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[BigDaddyAl]

T-Minus 60 seconds. It's been nice knowing you all.

 

[OCB]

no fireballs in the sky... no massive earthquake... the coffee machine hasn't attacked me (yet)... I think I might survive.

 

[hankster]

I would rate that as an almost complete fail. Never happened on 4 & 5 in Boston. 15 seconds maybe on 7 .

 

[BigDaddyAl]

Nothing happened on the radio (WBUR Boston).

 

[BearArms]

Well that was exciting

 

[Gadsden]

The station I was listening to was an epic fail. The emergency message was garbled so badly all you could hear was "emergency!" because the tones were still going over it. The DJs must have left the mike open because you could hear one of them yell "Wow, if that is what is supposed to get us through an emergency, we are hosed!!"

 

[Gadsden]

I've got my tin foil supply ready. Shiny side out for this scenario, correct?

It would have been much cooler if they used this:

 

[Garys]

Almost unintelligible audio, and a droning hum. Sort of like one of Obama's speeches.

 

[Gadsden]

More reports of epic fail:
http://www.businessinsider.com/atte...-to-be-taken-over-by-the-government-2011-11-1

 

[BigDaddyAl]

The station I was listening to was an epic fail. The emergency message was garbled so badly all you could hear was "emergency!" because the tones were still going over it. The DJs must have left the mike open because you could hear one of them yell "Wow, if that is what is supposed to get us through an emergency, we are hosed!!"

WBUR's test just happened, and it was the same as you describe. It sounded like 3 different broadcasts all coming through at the same time.

 

[Prepper]

I forgot all about it until I saw this thread just now. So, weren't my TV's and radios supposed to all turn on by themselves or something? Maybe not the old stuff, but at least the LCD TV I bought THIS YEAR? So how does this help me? The TV needs to be on, which it almost never is? And, if it is on, wouldn't nearly any station broadcasting want to interrupt if something really important happened?

 

[Nana the Great]

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again!

 

[Len-2A Training]

I had WROR-FM on and it sounded worse than when Mumbles makes a speech. Seriously unintelligible and if they were actually trying to tell us something important, the message would have been totally lost.

 

[yanici]

I had WROR-FM on and it sounded worse than when Mumbles makes a speech. Seriously unintelligible and if they were actually trying to tell us something important, the message would have been totally lost.

Len speaks true. If it's worse than a Mumbles speech it is very bad. Gonna have to have a "do over" on this test.

 

[Mike S]

.gov spending all that money on yet another failure, don't they know there's cops and teachers that need jobs?

 

[Prepper]

I was curious so I found the video of the test on youtube.

You can tell the test is serious business because there's no graphics at all and the ugly text looks like it was generated with a Commodore 64.

 

[Acme.Armament]

Nothing here on the scanner. So that means I'm safe right?

I do have the HD Reynolds out JIC.

 

[JFR2]

"Hello, Homeland Security? Yeah, 1980 called and they'd like their graphics package back."


-JR

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[cekim]

Almost unintelligible audio, and a droning hum. Sort of like one of Obama's speeches.

The plan was to show the failure to justify the Federal takeover of all media outlets...

[sad2] (waiting for huge budget increase for some XXXXMA alphabet agency)

 

[Prepper]

The plan was to show the failure to justify the Federal takeover of all media outlets...

[sad2] (waiting for huge budget increase for some XXXXMA alphabet agency)

Probably. If only they had a few more hundred billion, they could upgrade to an Amiga or something.

 

[Nana the Great]

Never a good idea to expect technology prowess from the federal government.