FEMA, NOAA, AND the FCC to Conduct first ever Nationwide Emergency Communications Test

ARRL website is informing its readers that  on November 9th at 2:00pm EST, our government will be performing its first ever test of the national emergency Alert Service (EAS).

Citing a FEMA website, the ARRL says the test will  last only about 3 minutes.  They said it'll take 2 minutes to get the state and local broadcasters online, so the national test will take at least 3 minutes. 


The ARRL went into much more detail here than I'm going to, so if you want to read the rest of entire story, CLICK HERE.