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Originally Posted by JU_88
The scary part is, its possible they doing this 'test' in preparation for something real.
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Like an emergency that they might want people to be aware of?
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Originally Posted by Osmium Steele
This new system seizes complete control of the nations airwaves, at the discretion of a single federal agency under the Executive Branch.
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CONELRAD, established in 1951:
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In the event of an emergency, all United States television and FM radio stations were required to stop broadcasting. Upon alert, most AM medium wave stations shut down. The stations that stayed on the air would transmit on either 640 or 1240 kHz. They would transmit for several minutes, and then go off the air and another station would take over on the same frequency in a "round robin" chain. This was to confuse enemy aircraft who might be navigating using Radio Direction Finding.
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Really, they're just testing a system that's been around for a while. Emergency systems are pointless if they don't work, and they just want to be sure this one works. Yeesh.