[EAS] False Alert Sent

[Lotus Engineering]

Bill Ruck said;
"Back in the dark ages of EBS there is a story about putting the wrong tape into the reader and sending an actual nationwide EBS alert."
        It really happened and I was partly at fault.  A guy named Ford and I were partying a bit to hard at a Canon City Jaycees party on Friday night,  Saturday morning, Badly hung-over,  I got a call from the station where I was News director that an actual alert had come in.  By the time I responded it had been corrected.  Ford's full time job was a civilian employee of NORAD and every Saturday morning he ran the punched tape for the practice EBS alert.  He called in sick, his replacement pulled the wrong tape out of the safe and the rest is history.  Google it as False EBS alert.  Now you know the real story.
Bill Croghan CPBE WBØKSW
Chief Engineer,
Lotus Broadcasting, Las Vegas, NV