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

Thu Oct 5 02:02:01 UTC 2023

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sean Donelan" <sean at donelan.com>

> On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, William Herrin wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 11:21 AM Sabri Berisha <sabri at cluecentral.net> wrote:
>>> Makes me wonder what I have to do to opt out of this. We all remember what
>>> happened in Hawaii.
>>
>> For the national alert you can't. That's intentional.
>>
>> Although for some reason my silenced phone made no noise. I got the
>> alert, it popped up on the screen, but no noise.
> 
> If you don't want any interruptions, you can set your phone to "Airplane
> Mode." Airplane Mode disables reception of all Wireless Emergency Alerts
> for as long as the phone stays in Airplane Mode.

And it's even possible, on most phones I have used, to turn Airplane mode on,
and then *turn wifi back on* -- that would get you most functionality, while
still precluding WEA/CMAS alerts.

I think I've got that right, don't I, Sean?

Cheers,
-- jra
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