Category: Emergency Alert System (EAS)
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Speechify Tom Test Microsoft Speech Server 2004, CRS EAS)
YouTUbe user Max Baykowski modified the image of Microsoft Speech Server 2004 to include NVDA, meaning that us blind folk now have access to as close to the real Tom used at the NWS from around 2002-2016 as anybody else has. This was my first test.
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TFW Your Antenna Falls Off The Rack
Pinging Matt: This is what happens when you have a small telescopic antenna connected to a three-way coaxial splitter, held to the back of a server rack with Dollar General knock-off duct tape, and the tape fails.
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My Old SAGE 1822
Until May 2025 the endec that ran ERN/KNA was a SAGE 1822 graybox unit. These began production around 1996 and continued presumably until the introduction of the bluebox in 2008. This was a relay of a WBAP originated Texas AMBEr Alert on March 24, 2025. The unit is still around, but its likely broken now.…
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Period Correct 1997 EAS Recreation: Train Derailment Prompting Evacuation
I did my best to make this mockup as period correct as I could. The TTS engine is the National Weather Service variant of DECtalk, I used a period correct EAS encoder, and I even found a station ID from a station in the area from that time online. Admittedly, this alert would have likely…
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Unrealistic EAS Mock: Disease
My best friend asked me to create an unrealistic EAS mockup several months ago, so I spat this out in about an hour. This was where I finally started to find my stride in mimicing the sound of broadcast radio, starting with AM. This is what made me develop my AM Radio macro for Audacity.…
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If The Shit Biscuit Ran ERN/KNA
I own a second EAS encoder unit, it’s a HollyAnne HU961 from the mid to late 90s, and I’ve given mine the nickname of the Shit Biscuit. It’s tiny and terrible. It requires an external audio switcher, uses a 1/8 inch (3.5MM) TS mono headphone cable for power, and only records audio at a 5KHz…
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EXCUSE ME WHAT???
This was at the end of a Life Threatening Flash Flood Warning in New Mexico. This is terrifying wording!
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Hawaiian Tsunami Watch, Warning and Civil Danger Warnings, California Tsunami Warning and CBS Radio News Hourly Updates on ERN/KNa
A followup to my previous post. Includes the alerts seen there, but also includes IPAWS/CAP Civil Danger Warnings issued by the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, along with CBS Radio News updates. Note: because of how my station fetches the news information, my news updates are an hour behind. Listen to GWES ERN/KNA’s EAS feed: http://icecast.gwes-eas.network/ERN-KNA…
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Audio Interface Crash
The new audio interface I got for the station crashed, and this happened… luckily it was only a test.