[EAS] Fwd: CMAS test alert

[Richard_Rudman]

I received two CMAS messages recently in Los Angeles on my Verizon iPhone.

Two things I noted:

1. The sounder that was used for this CMAS message that came out of my iPhone for the CMAS Flash Flood Warning messages was the two-tone EAS attention signal. As far as I know the EAS two-tone attention signal is supposed to be used for Part 11 authorized EAS transmissions only. If CMAS was authorized by the FCC to use the EAS two-tone attention signal, this somehow got by me. 

2. The message came up on my locked screen but when I tried to review it, the message was not saved in my phone in messages, email or anywhere else I could find.

Richard

Begin forwarded message:

>On Oct 17, 2012, at 10:37 AM, Lotus Engineering wrote:

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>>Just received a "Test of the Commercial Mobile Alert System" on my Android phone.  10:30 AM PDT expires in 23 hours, 50 Minutes!  I've gotten real alerts that way before but that's the first test alert.