[EAS] Guam: accidential Civil Danger Warning broadcast

Sean Donelan sean at donelan.com
Tue Aug 15 12:46:07 CDT 2017


On Tue, 15 Aug 2017, Ed Czarnecki wrote:
> Stuff happens.  Just got a bit more attention than usual due to current 
> events in the region (plus concern that this followed by a few planned 
> power utility outages later that afternoon could have alarmed folks). 
> At least it demonstrated the EAS relay was functional.

It appears there are 24 radio stations and 5 television stations licensed 
in Guam.  From news reports, only 3 stations carried the EAS alert.

Either all the other stations were staffed at 12:25am, and manually 
aborted the accidental EAS alert... Or the other stations weren't 
configured to carry a CDW alert automatically.

We can learn things from accidents.



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