Be on the lookout for snipers in Bearcats claiming to do "welfare checks"!
Posted on 12/27/2018 11:38:30 PM PST by Catmom
Just got an emergency alert on my cell phone with this message.
I use Sprint and live near Tacoma/Puyallup.
What gives?
Yep. Our EBS monitor was on the equipment stack behind us in the control room. But we did not have the daily code word in a book. He was in a red envelope in a packet sent by the government with the old EBS instructions in them.
You remind me of the guys from my ham radio club who were still using equipment from the 1950s and 60s.
Were you a primary station or would you go off the air?
Local dispatch getting calls about dead cats now.
Only as backup....have to say I’ve yet to be without phone service for that push button phone. Of course there will come a time when that won’t be an option. Landlines will be fully obsolete.
Not just Washington. Century link is having some kind of nation wide internet problem that is affecting phone service.
We monitored a secondary station, and that one actually monitored the primary. We were one of those that would go off the air in case of a nuclear attack.
However, I do remember one time when I was in the studio and I was listening to the primary station (it was a news station and I was trying to find out something about a story that day) and they had an EBS alert saying that our local 911 system was down.
What should have happened was that the secondary station should have sent the message along, and then I would have repeated it. I kept waiting for it to come over my system, but it never did. Turns out the idiot rock jocks of the other station didn’t know what the heck they were doing, and so ignored it. They never sent it. I believe I heard later on that some heads rolled at the other station because of that.
EBS was a complicated, low tech system.
There were some famous glitches, like one that occurred in 1971.
Makes you wonder how it would have worked if it was ever needed. Especially when you see how things still go TU.
Any of the other ISP’s, cell carriers having like issues?
Folks still don’t know how to use 911 right.
I can tell you that one of the call centers here in the USA started having issues early yesterday morning. The calls were dropped or people couldn’t hear each other speak and CL couldn’t even get into their system.
They aren’t even sure what is going on. Apparently, Verizon and Comcast were also having issues as well as T Mobile.
“If you’re a boomer, you know what I mean.”
Yeah - it came on and I had the same reaction!
Hmm - maybe the “boomer” nickname isn’t just because of the birthrate!?
But what a cool time to be young!
Wonder how the millennials would’ve weathered the cold war.
Im on ATnT no issues with phone or net. Ill be dusting off my Ham tomorrow just is case and Ill be going the radio club Saturday morning... just cuz
God made ham operators so folks would still have something to entertain them after the Apocalypse.
yup - thats why I got mine
Recieved an emergency notification here near Bellevue, WA on my land line but not my cell phone.
Chinese hacking.
Be on the lookout for snipers in Bearcats claiming to do "welfare checks"!
Whats gives is E911 cut over to VOIP and is 100% dependent on the internet and those outages affect many 911 systems at a time vs the old local land line T1 systems that were all independent of each other
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