[EAS] CAP RWTs from 006083

Sean Donelan sean at donelan.com
Mon Mar 21 15:22:34 CDT 2022


On Mon, 21 Mar 2022, KALX Engineering wrote:
> Well, while I'm in the question asking mood...
>
> I've been getting weekly RWTs from FEMA every Tuesday morning around 
> 9am for a while now for the 006083 FIPS code.  I've been ignoring them 
> as they don't apply to me, but I always thought it was a little 
> strange.  I get the All of California RWTs (006000) every week like I 
> should, but I never quite understood why there would be an FEMA RWT for 
> a particular county.

These are sent by SBCOEM (Santa Barbara County, Office of Emergency 
Management).

> So on top of this, the last couple of weeks I've gotten a "WARNING: CAP 
> alert failed signature verification" message on these RWTs.  Anybody 
> know  what's happening here?

You may be missing a certificate update (depending on Sage, DASDEC or 
Trilithic).  The message signature looks valid here.



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