[EAS] EAS message released for education

[Lamm, Dale]

Here's part of the announcement, taken from "Inside Radio":

Using the Emergency Alert System tones outside of an actual test or an activation is strictly off-limits. But the government has released a special set of a "sound-alike" EAS tones for stations to use as part of the public education effort leading up to this year's national test. The Federal Emergency Management Agency says the audio file contains "non-functional sound-alike EAS data headers" which most critically won't trigger any station's EAS receivers. 

Here's the full URL of the Inside Radio story:

http://www.insideradio.com/free/sound-alike-eas-tones-can-be-used-for-education-efforts/article_21377b76-8709-11e7-a5e5-9b4c1a2054d1.html

I looked at the test message. It's a bit noisy, as if it were captured off-air. The alerting tone pair is spot on 853-960 Hz, as determined by audio editing tools on my desktop. The 1200 baud FSK data sounds realistic, but I have not yet ran it through an EAS decoder to see what it is saying.

Dale Lamm
WHBC AM-FM