How did the EAS test go?
Nov 9, 2011 23:35:46 GMT -6
Post by CAwasinNJ on Nov 9, 2011 23:35:46 GMT -6
(I thought about naming this post "duck farts ahoy!" but then thought that might be too vague....)
I was monitoring KUTV 2.1 during the test and the station got hijacked on cue. I'm not sure who they were monitoring, but it sounded awful. It seemed like there might be some sort of very delayed feedback loop somewhere. There was also some kind of issue after the end of the test where it took 45 seconds to resume normal programming. I'm not sure if that was a human in the control room problem or a failure of the EAS equipment/system.
Personally, I think this whole thing was a waste of time and money. The problem that EAS solves no longer exists. It was developed (first as CONELRAD, later as EBS and modified to make EAS) to let us know if the Soviet Union had just launched a nuclear attack against us. The USSR doesn't exist anymore and the threat of a widespread attack of that sort is virtually nonexistent. Also, if there's any sort of major event like that every station is going to be covering that. We saw that over 10 years ago on 9/11/01. Note that EAS wasn't even activated that day. The whole thing is a lot of balloon juice. Let the media do what they do best. I don't want to hear only what the government wants me to hear.
I was monitoring KUTV 2.1 during the test and the station got hijacked on cue. I'm not sure who they were monitoring, but it sounded awful. It seemed like there might be some sort of very delayed feedback loop somewhere. There was also some kind of issue after the end of the test where it took 45 seconds to resume normal programming. I'm not sure if that was a human in the control room problem or a failure of the EAS equipment/system.
Personally, I think this whole thing was a waste of time and money. The problem that EAS solves no longer exists. It was developed (first as CONELRAD, later as EBS and modified to make EAS) to let us know if the Soviet Union had just launched a nuclear attack against us. The USSR doesn't exist anymore and the threat of a widespread attack of that sort is virtually nonexistent. Also, if there's any sort of major event like that every station is going to be covering that. We saw that over 10 years ago on 9/11/01. Note that EAS wasn't even activated that day. The whole thing is a lot of balloon juice. Let the media do what they do best. I don't want to hear only what the government wants me to hear.
