EAS fails the test
A Broadcast Engineering reader provides his thoughts on the recent nation-wide EAS test. Did it work? See below.
Good day…
A few years ago I once commented on an article you had written about the EAS (former EBS) system in the country. You may recall how I reported how I felt the over testing of the system was tantamount to ‘crying wolf’ and how a lot of the public mostly ignores the alerts even when there is something substantive broadcast.
This last weeks nationwide test failed in my opinion if for nothing else than for the unintelligible quality of the audio that I heard on the several stations that I found carrying the test. I quickly tuned around the band on a device that a consumer would have easy access to - a car radio.
