Federal Fumble; Texas EAS Test Fail, Nov 9 2011, WBAP, DFW Dallas Texas, 1 PM CST

Video starts at 2 minutes to the hour; nothing heard *during* actual test, no voice, no speaking, nothing at all.

WBAP is a "Primary Entry Point" as well.

See more here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergenc...

Excerpt pertaining to "Primary Entry Point":

"More than thirty radio stations are designated as National Primary Stations in the Primary Entry Point (PEP) System to distribute Presidential messages to other broadcast stations and cable systems. The Emergency Action Notification is the notice to broadcasters that the President of the United States or his designee will deliver a message over the EAS via the PEP system."

See also the KXAS TV CH "5" broadcast of the EAS test:

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


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[bentleyontheair]

did any of yall notice that the attention tone faded out?

[uploadJ]

The 'attention tone' fading out is due to the fact the auto-notch filter ("AN" on the display in the upper right) was switched 'on' in the Icom IC-756Pro2 receiver; I forgot to deselect it for this event. Sorry for the confusion this might be causing.

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[SuperSonicTailsEas]

I'm so glad you're listening to rush limbaugh. He truly is an intelligent man. Nice test

[uploadJ]

It made for a nice intro into the EAS test ... no? ... No need for a "lead-in" voice-over intro which would be needed 10 years down the road when ppl wonder WTF was all this fuss about ...

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[atvrider7]

thats a very fancy looking piece of equipment.

[uploadJ]

Yes; also note the little clock showing time in UTC (also known as GMT or Greenwich Mean Time) in 24 hour format in the upper right-hand corner of the spectrum display. If you look closely one can see the " : " (colon) blinking on then off at once a second rate ...

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[Martin Bates]

Love the radio there buddy what's the callsign? Mine is KC4MB

[Jordan Bahr]

just found out. It's "Ladies Night" by Kool & The Gang

[Jordan Bahr]

what is the music behind Rush?

[TheBlackaurora44]

I'm a broadcaster as well and all of us at the stations I work for couldn't believe the crap that we heard....First of all, any test should have a voice that says something along the lines of, "This is a test of the emergency alert system." After that, the familiar tones should be heard and then something like, "If this had been an actual emergency you would have been given information etc. How hard is it for the U.S. government to create tones? In 1969 they landed the first man on the moon.

[bentleyontheair]

That's Okay I Just Didn't Know if that really did happen over the air on their EAS Encoder/Decoder (i think they use a gorman-redlich eas1 i think) or if it was the radio so anyway thanks for telling me.

[bentleyontheair]

i think so too

[bentleyontheair]

I Agree i am a broadcaster in Sherman (part15fm/internet) The PEP System has been around for a while and i too think it was too short they should have kept it at 2:30 i just bought a sage eas endec for my part 15 fm and internet station to go with it