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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jul 21, 2022 2:04:21 GMT -6
There was an evacuation order issued Sunday night in Wanship due to a wildfire. EAS was activated by KCSG but unfortunately it was badly screwed up. Below is the audio of the alert exactly as it aired on KCSG 8.3 (StartTV.) Warning, it's loud.
Slowing it down, the artificial speech does give the correct information but it's unintelligible at the speed it was broadcast. I couldn't get the attention signal (after the duck farts) to sound correct no matter what I did.
I don't know what the source of those parts of the message were so I'm wondering if any other station had a similar issue. How it could have happened baffles me.
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Post by friendlee on Jul 26, 2022 13:00:15 GMT -6
It's the return of Blitverts!  (a nod of the head to Max Headroom!) |
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Post by kenglish on Jul 26, 2022 13:35:44 GMT -6
The monthly RMT is today at 2:50 PM.
Let's see if that works any better.
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Post by kenglish on Jul 26, 2022 15:55:44 GMT -6
I just wasted an hour, and never heard an EAS on any station on AM. Anybody hear anything?
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jul 26, 2022 16:09:54 GMT -6
First I should clarify something from my original post. I'm sure the alert must have originated with KCSG-LD, the Salt Lake translator, not KCSG(TV) the Cedar City parent.
The RMT aired on KCSG at about 3:01. The only sound was the header and the EOM marker, which sounded fine. Those worked fine on the 17th too. The only audio issue I heard was on 8.5 (MeTV+) where the alert sounds were in the left channel only. The video scroll on 8.7 (Movies!) was faster than the others and too fast IMHO. I don't think either of those is a big deal, but if I were the engineer I'd fix them.
Ken, not even on KSL(AM)? Were there any other EAS activations in the Salt Lake area this week? The KCSG activation originated at KSUB.
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Post by kenglish on Jul 26, 2022 18:43:08 GMT -6
The RMT for this afternoon was supposed to originate with KUED, but did not happen.
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Post by kenglish on Aug 24, 2022 9:31:38 GMT -6
I tuned around for a short time this morning at 5:50, but did not hear anything. I started a few minutes late, so maybe I missed KSL (the LP1 for SLC).
Can a computer-aided SDR record the entire AM or FM broadcast band, for later playback?
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Aug 25, 2022 5:52:54 GMT -6
I saw the RMT on KUPX 16.3/Laff.
I believe what you describe is possible, but I'm not sure how practical it would be for consumer use.
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Post by kenglish on Aug 25, 2022 9:38:46 GMT -6
I know a lot of Hams who do serious RFI investigations, use SDR and software to monitor a physical location for noise issues over a several day period. I don't t know if they run multiple receivers, or how wide they can see.
I'll have to read up on my stuff, after my next month's data cap opens.
I have an SDRPlay RSP-Dual, but need a good laptop to run it. It could monitor AM and FM separately on the two systems.
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