[Scan-DC] first ever nationwide test of EAS 9 November

[Jeff Krauss]

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>Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 14:04:23 -0400
>From: Doug Kitchener <oldsdoug at hotmail.com>
>Subject: [Scan-DC] EAS test
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>Yeah, I heard something like this too somewhere, was just trying to 
>find the reference that I'd seen...
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>Rhetorical question... Why the F wouldn't they say it's a test?
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>Sorry, I had to ask... if this is correct, I really believe that 
>this country is in the hands of nincompoops... but then I believe that anyway.
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>DK

Because that would require a change to the "nationwide alert" 
capability of the emergency alert system, which is different from the 
regional alerts that are tested monthly..  But then it would no 
longer be a test of the real EAS, it would be a test of a modified 
version of the EAS.
It's something like Catch 22.