Category: Emergency Alert System (EAS)

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…

The new audio interface I got for the station crashed, and this happened… luckily it was only a test.

This is an SVR received by my DASDEC. I think the NWR station itself is stuttering, since the noise isn’t stuttering as well.

So I run an internet radio station, ERN/KNA, which uses a decommitioned broadcast EAS encoder/decoder unit that came from a TV station. I’m part of a group of other nerds with old broadcast hardware. We only run internet streams, none of this is connected to any sort of radio transmition equipment, and is entirely legal.…

Recorded from my internet radio station which relays emergency alerts for the whole country. I was using a computer to monitor a particular source, and I forgot to turn NVDA’s speech off, so this happened during a Severe Thunderstorm Warning relay