U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

Wed Oct 4 19:49:12 UTC 2023

On Wed, Oct 4, 2023, at 15:09, Grant Taylor via NANOG wrote:
>
> I don't know if today's test is the same thing or not, but I remember in 
> the last X years where there was a presidential test of the EAS and 
> there was supposedly no way to disable it short of turning your device off.
>
> My understanding is that -- let's go with -- lesser priority sources can 
> be silenced, but sufficiently high priority can't be.  If the device is 
> on, it's going to make noise.

It must be nice to live in a country that uses the priorities! Canada's Alert Ready decided that people can't be trusted and sends ALL alerts at the "national alert" priority.

(When Canada last tested in May, I had my phone on silent - the alert vibrated but did not make noise - which is a slight improvement, I guess).

-- 
Harald Koch
chk at pobox.com