[sbe-eas] National Periodic Test (NPT) for October 4 (backup October 11)

[Rob Dale]

This will go out as a legitimate WEA National Alert, with all the tones and vibrations of a "real" one, so all cellphones will alert regardless of their "test" settings. Only the text will indicate it's a test.

Rob


> On Aug 4, 2023, at 1:22 PM, Dave Turnmire <eassbelist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Someone refresh my memory as to how this is handled for the WEA part.  Does WEA support "NPT"?  Will the phone treat this as a "test" subject to the opt-in requirement?  Or will most of the public receive this?  And will it trigger the WEA attention tone?
> 
> I'm thinking that absent a PR campaign, the average member of the public won't notice a difference between the EAS RWT and EAS NPT. So not likely to be a big deal for them.  But if every phone in the room goes off in a short time frame with the WEA attention tone, the public is likely to notice.  So some advance publicity from OEM or whoever is likely warranted.  And in that context the EAS NPT can be mentioned as well, with some general promotion of public alerting.  I'm just wanting to clarify what the user experience will be for cell phone users.
> 
> Dave
> 
>> On 8/3/2023 8:04 AM, Sean Donelan wrote:
>>> On Thu, 3 Aug 2023, Sean Donelan wrote:
>>> FEMA IPAWS has requested FCC schedule (and limited waiver for WEA live test) a national test of EAS/WEA on October 4, 2023, (primary date, with October 11, 2023 as a secondary date) at 14:20 hours ET.
> ...
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