[EAS] WEA results?

[Richard_Rudman]

>From a ham friend just north of San Diego:

On October 3, 2018, ham radio operators in the greater Fallbrook area compared notes on cellphone reception of the nationwide Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) test.  Put simply, 16 cellphones received the test, five did not, giving an overall success rate of 76%. Obviously this was a very small scale test but the results are interesting.

The five failed phones are as follows:

* An old $30 phone from Walmart with SMS capability, AT&T is the carrier.

* A flip phone with SMS capability, Ting is the carrier/reseller.

* An iPhone 8, T-Mobile is the carrier.

* An "old person's smartphone," a Samsung 6, AT&T is the carrier.

* The final failed phone belonged to a ham operator who was with his wife in the same room in Temecula. Both had T-Mobile phones. His wife's phone received the test, his phone did not.

Regards,

Richard

> On Oct 3, 2018, at 2:42 PM, Suzanne Goucher <suzanne at mab.org> wrote:
> 
> Judging by the comments section on the related Washington Post news article, it appears much of California did not receive the WEA.  That's not a scientific study, just a quick survey of the comments.
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>> On Oct 3, 2018, at 5:30 PM, Dave Turnmire <EASsbeList at cableone.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Did WEA do any better in your neighborhood?
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