[EAS] Coffey County KS - Oops RWT sent as Nuclear Power Plant Warning

[Roy Baum]

Sean,

I'm working with Coffey County to help them "do it right". Do you happen to have the contact information for the FCC Ops Center?

Roy Baum
Director of Engineering and Technology
WIBW, KTPK and KSAJ Radio/Kansas Radio Networks, Kansas ECC Chairman, Topeka, KS
785-256-0580
The latest Kansas news and weather is here: http://www.WIBWNewsNow.com

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 1:37 PM Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:

>It appears there are still some issues with alert origination software
>user interfaces.  Still easy to send a live alert code instead of a test
>alert code.

>http://ipawsnonweather.alertblogger.com/?p=27682

>The good news is WEA/CMAS was blocked in the CAP message. So only
>cable/radio/tv which included the NUW event code would have broadcast it.
>NUW is one of those oddball EAS event codes, which very few stations
>configure.  I don't expect much public reaction.

>In theory, the alert originator is supposed to report false alerts to the
>FCC Ops center.  Most alert originators don't know how to contact the
>FCC.

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