[EAS] Sirius/XM RWT Question

[Roy Baum]

Thanks for the clarification and info, Sean. We got burned here in Kansas by the Premiere "lack of audio" issue during the last NPT in '21. And, for what it's worth, during the time Premiere was connected as one of my sources, I only received one RWT from PRN (12/17/21). That's why I got the Sirius/XM rig. We do have an NPR affiliate nearby that gets their "squawk channel" tests and relays the national alerts, and they are one of my sources. Unfortunately, the 2021 NPT from PRN got to us (Kansas Primary) before the NPR NPT got through...one instance where redundancy didn't help. August 11, 2021, was a very frustrating day, to say the least.

Roy Baum
WIBW
Topeka, KS

On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 11:52 AM Sean Donelan sean at donelan.com> wrote:

>Sirius/XM now does RWT and RMT.  SiriusXM follows the Washington DC
>National Capital Region EAS calendar.  Note: SiriusXM does NOT include any
>audio within the EAS message which means you can't validate your audio
>levels.

>NPR Squawk does RWT weekly, usually about Tuesdays at 11:15 a.m. ET.  The
>National Periodic Test (NPT) audio levels were different than the weekly
>test audio levels.

>Premiere Networks Satellite FEMA channel is silent, I've never heard a
>successful test on Premiere Networks.