EAS Updates

Attention Stations Monitoring IPAWS The EAS RWT was not sent Monday, January 9. This will be reflected in FEMA’s monthly IPAWS report. v/r Mark A. Lucero, CISSP Chief, IPAWS Engineering FEMA National Continuity Program

The EAS RWTs for Chamorro, Atlantic, Eastern, and Central time zones were not sent, Monday, December 12. Other time zones should have been sent normally. This will be reflected in FEMA’s monthly IPAWS report. v/r Mark A. Lucero, CISSP Chief, IPAWS Engineering FEMA National Continuity Programs Please make note in your EAS logs. Roger and…

The vulnerability is related specifically to Monroe DASDEC boxes. That said, all of us should check to make sure we’re on the latest software version for our device(s). Several updates have been issued by Digital Alert System since this issue was originally identified as far back as 2013. If you have a Monroe device you…

If you have KXXY as your EAS assignment, please log that KXXY did not send a RWT the week of 12/19 t 12/25 do to equipment configuration issues. Thanks you.

Due to a failure, November’s RMT is being rescheduled. The November RMT is now scheduled for this Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021, 11:15am, Veterans Day. ______________________________________________________________ Please notify others within your organization of the change. We apologize for any problems this may cause.

Due to an upcoming change in the method ONN will be using to process and deliver audio content to it’s affiliates, it will no longer be possible to use the ONN network to receive EAS alerts.  This will not affect ONN programming, only EAS alerting will be affected. IMPORTANT – October 17, 2021 will be…

Our next National EAS test will be on Aug. 11, 2021. Officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency officially informed the Federal Communications Commission that it plans its sixth national EAS test on April 11. They also plan to conduct a nationwide Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) test concurrently. As in the past, FEMA set a…

Oklahoma’s Nov 3 RMT has been rescheduled for the following Tuesday, November 10, 2020, 11:15am due to a busy Election day. Please notify others (i.e., traffic) within your organization of the change.

There was no RWT test sent by KMGL for the week of June 28- July 4. Please make notes to your logs accordingly if you monitor KMGL.

Oklahoma’s Feb 4 RMT has been rescheduled for the following Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 11:15pm due to weather conditions and warnings.