[EAS] Riddle me this...

[Sean Donelan]

Last week's FEMA RWT announcing the rescheduled national test was sent to 
the All-USA FIPS code "000000".

Its not a mistake, but most EAS boxes are not configured with 000000 for 
RWTs.  They only respond to EAN and NPT with 000000 (and maybe PEP).

On Tue, 25 Sep 2018, Sid Schweiger wrote:

> I do the weekly log reviews for eight stations in our group.  Apparently last week CAP originated a test message on Thursday 9/20 at 2:35PM ET, reminding everyone that the NPT had been postponed to Wednesday 10/3.  Only three of our stations received and logged the message.
>
> We have Sage boxes across the board and all had the "SI rev 5 VTAG" certificate update installed well in advance of last week's original NPT date.
>
> Any ideas why most of our group would not have received the extra CAP test?
>
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