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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: Zoidberg on November 07, 2011, 1708 UTC

Title: Duck and cover, kids! EAS is coming!
Post by: Zoidberg on November 07, 2011, 1708 UTC
The gummint plans to test the national Emergency Alert System (http://www.emergencymgmt.com/emergency-blogs/alerts/National-EAS-Test-Shortened-110311.html) Wednesday, November 9, at 2 pm (Eastern).

Personally, I think we should bring back CONELRAD.

If they're able to pull this off successfully it will prove 5/21/11 and 10/21/11 were gummint conspiracies planned by NSA director Harold Camping, Elvis was assassinated by Chuck Barris, Ted Kaczynski was the first man on the moon and Van Halen really was KISS.

Just as planned (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1kkGuY9p-o).
Title: Re: Duck and cover, kids! EAS is coming!
Post by: Northern Relay Service on November 08, 2011, 1900 UTC
Lots of interesting stuff going on tomorrow . The EAS test  ,Earth enters the debris field of Elinin, 2005 YU55 passes between the Earth and Moon,and earthquake occurrence is at a very high level.  11/9/11 EEEEEKKKK ! Wasn't the Pentagon conducting emergency scenarios on 9/11 as well . Could be a very interesting day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VrqEdUPSpI
Title: Re: Duck and cover, kids! EAS is coming!
Post by: Alex_in_West_Virginia on November 08, 2011, 2208 UTC
Damn, I still can't find my tinfoil hat!

Funny thing, at the bottom of the page, there's an ad for a book by Alison Goodman called "Killing the Rabbit," best price is $0.01, lol!!! ;D ;D
Title: Re: Duck and cover, kids! EAS is coming!
Post by: UNID QRP on November 10, 2011, 0500 UTC
I happened to be in the car today when the nationwide EAS test kicked off, and did a little tuning around on the FM band while it was taking place.  About half of the stations were carrying the EAS test correctly; the other half were dead air.

Obviously I wasn't able to tune all receiveable stations due to the short duration of the test, but that's still a better result than in the EBS false alarm of 1971 (http://ebstest.stlmedia.net/)!  ;D
Title: Re: Duck and cover, kids! EAS is coming!
Post by: radiogaga on November 10, 2011, 1655 UTC
All I heard was Lady GaGa  :o
Title: Re: Duck and cover, kids! EAS is coming!
Post by: Zoidberg on November 11, 2011, 0016 UTC
All I heard was Lady GaGa  :o

Same here.  It was... odd (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lair0rSSUM), even for Lady Gaga.   :o