Audio of EAS test today, in case your weren't listening, but you probably were knowing this forum

I can't remember, but I do think that the President has a direct line to point of entry stations over the mic, but I could be wrong, the internet is so involved with everything these days.

Actually I was far far away in nap land. The TV was off, my stations proceeded with its programs, and its just another normal uneventful day.

I think the only people who were all excited over this demonstration of now you see/hear it, now you don't are in desperate need of a life.

Maybe this new nationwide EAS can come to the rescue for that! :p

RFB

Yesterday a space rock came THIS CLOSE, and today the much hyped EAS Test also slipped by with RFB taking his nap and me concentrating on KDX station business. I really meant to listen and record the thing, but I can't be expected to do everything around here.

Therefore it is with gratitude that I was able to hear the recording made and shared by Next Gen FM, and I will tell you it was an immediate let down.

I was sure that with the extravagant buildup there would be something more, uh, kind of something a little bit, er, well I never was sure what to expect.

The test has demonstrated one thing. When there is a real emergency nobody will notice.

"The test has demonstrated one thing. When there is a real emergency nobody will notice."

No one will notice until the emergency is real and disrupts the bird chirping sun shining everything is a-ok life style.

In other words, it will require a big POOF in order to grab attention.

RFB

The EAS didn't even work here, nor did it work in most of the US.

Here We just had silence after the tones.

Other places had a cacophony of garbled and swishy echoed audio.

"The EAS didn't even work here, nor did it work in most of the US.
Here We just had silence after the tones.
Other places had a cacophony of garbled and swishy echoed audio."

Really? Wow, I will sleep a lot better now! Glad to know that our hard earned and then stolen charged at interest tax dollars are going to useless use.

RFB

"Well, unfortunately they could have splurged for a little extra audio quality, but hey, it's the government."

Yeah, funny how billions get spent and it's still not good enough!

Well the next big thing is CAP, slated to be required in June 2012. Recently extended from the Sept 2011 deadline.

The CAP system will use both over the air and internet delivery. Now think about that.

It is at that time when the smart phones and iPad's and 4G's and PC's will receive the national alerts.

Eventually this over-bloated system will interrupt "normal" communications along with the broadcast systems. Regardless of the "good intent" of the system, its overall goal IS to be capable of interrupting communications of all kinds in order to spread the message.

It would not surprise me at all that at some point, even our alarm clocks will "sound off" and speak to us, waking us up from our far far away nap-ville.

RFB

The famous exception to freedom of speech is "You can't yell fire in a crowded theater."

Now they are gearing up to yell fire on a crowded internet.

"But Mr. President, the internet is already wiped out. Our 100-zillion dollar CAP system is of no use."

Lesson: get your catastrophe synchronized with your warning system.

I don't think I'm ready for the government having access to my smartphone like that...

But they are already up everyone's A** enough already, so why not a little farther.

"I don't think I'm ready for the government having access to my smartphone like that..."

I would not worry too much. If the EAS/CAP runs as smoothly as the EAS did on Nov 9th, very little will result other than a quick burst of buzz and tones and silence or wishy washy garbled in the mud audio.

It all will at least do one thing right....interrupt.

RFB