[AMRadio] Ebs Test failure

Thu Nov 10 06:20:18 EST 2011

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Lawson" <w4rl at bellsouth.net>
To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" 
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Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Ebs Test failure


>I wonder what White House appointee FEMA Bufoon choose and ordered a No
> Fail Safe/No Plan B EBS system.  In these political times this does not
> surprise me in the least.  I wish my Gary Larsen's Far Side cartoon
> could be seen in my attempted attachment as it about covers it all.
>
> Remember when we were kids and would hear the weekly broadcast band
> local radio stations' CD weird beeps and buzzes and then a, "This has
> been a test from......"?   I certainly do in my memories. And those two
> 'special' marked spots on the dial to go to if the balloon went up.
>
> Greeting to all from Pensacola FL.
>
> 73 Robert W4RL
>
>
> On 11/9/2011 10:11 PM, Bob Gunther wrote:
>> I'm the Chief Engineer at WOAY-TV in the Beckley Bluefield market (WV). 
>> In our case, the radio station feeding the radio station that feeds
>> us, failed the alert , so the failure went down the rest of the chain. It 
>> would make common sense to give each station the feed independently, but
>> since when does the government have any common sense !!!
>> Bob KG4OJZ
>>
>>
>>> From: wb5oxq at grandecom.net
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>>> Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 21:48:53 -0600
>>> Subject: [AMRadio] Ebs Test failure
>>>
>>> I expected to hear the test on radio but none of the clearchannel 
>>> stations which are all but about 2 in our area did anything but continue 
>>> with normal programming.
>>> I checked several Dallas area stations that I can receive from 90 miles 
>>> south and none of them had the test on. Only one independent am station 
>>> KBBW which is a Christian talk station had the test on and the audio was 
>>> poor. I would say it is a miserable failure when the largest station 
>>> network does not have the test on... I can clearly pick up at least 10 
>>> fm and loads of am stations from Central Texas and only 1 am had the 
>>> test. Is this the best our government can do? What a joke.
>>> Jim Miller Waco, Texas
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