Posted on 08/11/2021 8:55:06 AM PDT by McGruff
FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission, will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) this summer.
The national test will consist of two portions, testing WEA and EAS capabilities. Both tests will begin at 2:20 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Aug. 11.
The Wireless Emergency Alert portion of the test will be directed only to consumer cell phones where the subscriber has opted-in to receive test messages. This will be the second nationwide WEA test, but the first nationwide WEA test on a consumer opt-in basis. The test message will display in either English or in Spanish, depending on the language settings of the wireless handset.
The Emergency Alert System portion of the test will be sent to radios and televisions. This will be the sixth nationwide EAS test.
I’ll turn off my phone, thanks for the warning!
ECOMCON
turn off before 220 ET lol
They have something brewing.
Won’t matter, I had an old iPhone that was deactivated and I was using as an iPod that still received the test FEMA presidential alert in 2017.
You can turn your phone off, but I suspect you’ll get the alert after you turn it back on.
You can turn your phone off, but I suspect
you’ll get the alert after you turn it back on.
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Just like a missed call.
Mine was done a couple of weeks ago. However, my daughter who was rightbeside me, didn’t receive one. She has an iphone if that makes a difference. I don’t know.
Doubleplusgood! Big Brother is activating the Telescreen to enlighten us!
“They have something brewing.”
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Well, there are people putting their phones in the microwave so they don’t receive the signal, because they think the signal 5G is going to activate nanobots in the vaccine, or something like that in the movie Cell, sending people into a mass psychosis, like that in the movie Purge.
I’m skeptical, like Scully in the X-Files.
Message will read:
“I won, by a lot” - Trump
Lol, OK... So with all this new technology the audio message still sounds unclear and static like an old time radio broadcast in a location where you are barely getting a signal.
Are people in this country actually stupid enough to believe they do not now have the technology to make those messages just as clear as the radio and TV broadcast it is overriding?
It insults the intelligence that they pull such an ignorant display of psychological deception.
AT&T does this too. You get an automated system that has a guy acting as he is real. “OK... hold on and I will check that for you” While there are physical keystroke sounds in the background. As if he is really typing on a keyboard to look something up.
How stupid do they think we are? Only an idiot would think that is a real person actually typing on a real keyboard... lol
no test here.
None here either in Illinois close to Chicago.
My SO has an iPhone 11 and never gets them when I get on my Galaxy S20 all the time. Have been trying to debug the issue and can’t figure it out.
Missed it entirely. Dog is dying. Wonder if that was part of the test.
Testing testing
Testing testing
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