[EAS] IPAWS RWT April 17th?

[Sean Donelan]

Yes, for the last year or so, FEMA IPAWS has been transmitting an
over-the-air RWT from different PEP stations each week around the country. 
I'm guessing they are cycling through all the PEP stations.

The tests come from the FEMA installed equipment at the PEP transmitter 
instead of the normal station EAS equipment.  Hopefully these tests will 
validate the end-to-end audio levels for the FEMA equipment.  The last few 
NPTs had a lot of variation in audio levels from different PEP sources.

On Tue, 23 Apr 2024, KALX Engineering wrote:
> In looking over my logs from last week, I noticed an RWT on April 17th 
> at 11:11am from KCBS (LP1), but the originator was United States 
> Government (PEP) instead of the usual Civil Authority (CIV) that we get 
> weekly.  Did anyone else get this?  I don't believe I've ever seen one 
> of these before.  I wonder if this is going to be a new regular 
> occurrence?  Just curious...