[sbe-eas] XMSR sending RWT's again?

[Sean Donelan]

Yes.  SiriusXM is sending RWTs again (without attention tones or audio 
message).

It was a private business decision by SiriusXM to start sending RWTs on 
its barker channels.

FCC's 2019 rule change for SDARS exempting it from routine 
weekly testing remains unchanged (according to the FCC, the commission 
did not receive *ANY* objections).  SiriusXM can voluntarily send RWTs.

As far as I know, Premiere Networks does not conduct any routine tests on 
its "FEMA channel."  Supposedly Premiere carries national tests, but no 
one I know has received any.

NPR conducts routine weekly tests (but does not include audio) on its 
"squawk" channel, so actual national tests (NPT) audio levels are all 
over the place.


On Wed, 8 Jun 2022, Aaron Read wrote:
> Several months ago, I read that SiriusXM got permission to cease sending EAS
> RWT's on their channels.  I have an unsubscribed radio tuned to the "barker"
> channel and I was getting RWT's from "XMSR" every week, and RMT's every
> month (and, once, a NPT) but that disappeared to just the RMT's after the
> notice went out.
> Recently...like two or three weeks ago, maybe?...I noticed I was seeing
> RWT's from XMSR again.  I'm not complaining, but was there a specific reason
> they started sending them again?