Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

[Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net>]

Once upon a time, Grant Taylor <gtaylor () tnetconsulting net> said:
> Is this by chance a Specific Area Message Encoding (S.A.M.E.)
> filtering / lack of data issue?

At least in my radio, I can't disable certain classes of things (the
high and immediate impact warnings like tornado).  I would expect the
Presidential Alert class to be the same, if it exists.

> Can anyone corroborate NOAA weather radios not alerting?

My weather radio went off for the regular weekly test a couple of hours
before the national alert test, and did not go off for the national
alert.

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Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net>