I work with these systems and know the laws. The reason why is because this video was most likely aired on live television. Airing these tones will actually result in a possible activation of other stations. Its is NOT illegal to play these tones in something like a RU-vid video but IS illegal to play them over TV/FM/AM Radio if there is not a real emergency occurring.
You can play the *_ERRR, ERRR, ERRRR_* sound in a RU-vid Video... You just can't play it on live television because the *_ERRRR_* actually has a code in it that broadcasts EAS to other channels/stations
Everyone is like “why can’t you play it in this video” and the reason why is because if this is being aired on tv and they play it, it has a possibility of activating the Emergency Alert System and that could carry a hefty fine and possible jail time too
A syndicated radio show that broadcast the sound as part of a segment, caused The EAS system at the stations that were broadcasting the show to trigger
It’s about maintaining the integrity of the system. The FCC uses litigation to maintain the integrity like the music industry uses litigation to maintain the integrity of copyright. A smart creator should prefer to avoid litigation scenarios :)
I work with these systems and know the laws. The reason why it is illegal because this video was most likely aired on live television. Airing these tones will actually result in a possible activation of other stations. Its is NOT illegal to play these tones in something like a RU-vid video but IS illegal to play them over TV/FM/AM Radio if there is not a real emergency occurring.
@@EvanVanderStoep CBS got in trouble when in one episode of “Young Sheldon,” the producers used the SAME Header and Attention Tones on the TV when a Tornado Watch alert was playing on the TV. Even though the producers adjusted the sound a bit and still had some background noises from the Looney Tunes to help alter the sounds, they still got fined by the FCC. Video link: m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rRyaaBzNcsU.html#dialog
The three tones at the start of an EAS message aren’t to grab your attention. They’re called S.A.M.E. tones and are important for encoding and decoding messages, although the long, lower pitch tone following is called an “attention tone” and is there to grab your attention. Fun fact: EAN, or Emergency Action Notification, would signal a national-level emergency. It was not once used during the EBS era or with the EAS. Although it should’ve been used during the 9/11 attacks.
As an expert in the public safety field I can confirm this is true about the S.A.M.E. tones which are affectionately referred to as “duck farts”. Also the EAN wasn’t used on 9/11 because it was determined the public was already aware of the events due to overwhelming news coverage.
For anyone wondering why they won't play the header sounds, this was originally aired on TV, and there was a chance the EAS equipment could accidentally activate for whatever the header had encoded on it
This has flaws. In theory, if you create a header with a back shifted value, it would be invalid forever. Instead of ZCZC-PEP-EAN. you can do XBXB-MDM-DZM. It would sound low pitched. I don't know if FCC would allow you to use fundamentally invalid tones, but you need to fundamentally recreate an attention tone. Those are A and B, tuned to 427Hz.
I'm glad that doctor mentioned that the current EAS tones do not help bring people to positive action. In a real emergency, the EAS will probably spread panic.
ACTUALLY, The video about the screeches are wrong. There are only 3 parts, Data, Attention tone (On NOAA Weather radio it is 1050 hz square, but on other means it is 850 by 950 sine OR square) The 3 screeches are the data, as said in the video, Attention to grab your attention, then the Text-To-Speech voice.
Adding on, these alerts actually can be played by anyone as long as the tone isn't detected through an entry point system, or a HAM Radio on a Broadcast Frequency. The American EAS runs on SAME Decoding Technology, which works in am event code format, thus having to play the 3 short tone plays and the 1 long one. Usually, the alert is activated through a header such as ZCZC-(Activator)-(Event Code). The activator and event code section is abbreviated to something specific. Example: ZCZC-NWR-TOR (Tornado Warning from the NWS) Example 2: ZCZC-PEP-EAN (Government Primary Entry Point System triggering the nationwide Emergency Action Notification alert) The messages are relayed until the EOM tone burst is played. Another thing they pointed out that was wrong was "You should never have to hear these tones." This actually happens all the time, believe it or not. They are either Flood Warnings, Local Area Emergencies, Amber Alerts, or 911 Outages. Hope you all understand.
to those commenting "lol not legally allowed???", the REASON these people are not allowed is that they are an actual NBC subsidiary, and thus are bound by the FEMA and FCC laws even on RU-vid. they're still considered "broadcasting" even while on here.
That’s why we have to put this in the description: “ATTENTION, IF YOU POST THIS ON AN EAS BULLITEN, OR ON THE AIR OR OVER NOAA FREQUENCIES THEN IN NO WAY I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR ACTIONS”
We always have to use a disclaimer that we are not responsible for other people's actions if they use our video, that its not to be used as reference to an actual event, that its all fictional, etc
I work with these systems and know the laws. The reason why is because this video was most likely aired on live television. Airing these tones will actually result in a possible activation of other stations. Its is NOT illegal to play these tones in something like a RU-vid video but IS illegal to play them over TV/FM/AM Radio if there is not a real emergency occurring.
bruh when i discovered the eas in kindergarten at night when i was watchin disney it scared the crap out of me and to this day when theres one i cover my ears as hard as i can
I watch so many EAS mocks that even though I still get scared I'm immune to it now. When they say this is a test on the radio I always say proceed and then the tones happen.
Its more like EERRRRRRR ERREERRR ERRRRRR EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAEEEEEEE tHe dhchcncjc c has issued a fufbjfbfufbejdvd warning for the following jendhdndxhfuidbfjdbxjchccnbch and difjfnfufnfdmdjdkfbd
You do realize EAS mocks aren’t broadcasted to airwaves, right? There is *almost* no way that an EAS mock with live tones is going to set off an encoder just by being played.
I work with these systems and know the laws. The reason why is because this video was most likely aired on live television. Airing these tones will actually result in a possible activation of other stations. Its is NOT illegal to play these tones in something like a RU-vid video but IS illegal to play them over TV/FM/AM Radio if there is not a real emergency occurring.
Those three tones at the beginning arent actually designed to get your attention, they are called SAME (Specific Area Message Encoding) headers and make it easier and faster to relay to TV and radio stations. The tones shown in the example that come after the attention tone don't contain the data and likely represented the end of message tones. He was likely talking about the three tones at the beginning when he was talking about location data.
That also shows how NOAA Weather Radios activate for specific alerts, as they display what the alert is and plays a siren to let the listener know there is an alert issued.
i heard the first 3 beeps weren't used for a while until i think in 1992 a emergency message in los angeles was broadcasted for that one infamous LA92 riot and used the first 3 beeps.
The first three tones are actually multi frequencies that are containing an ecoded message to anything that is listening to an EAS emergency message. the second and long DTMF tone is the one that is meant to get your attention.
Not really because of that. The thing is that RU-vid does not air or broadcast anything. So its legal to play these tones on RU-vid. And why you see a lot of EAS mocks or scenario videos too. However, broadcasting them on TV, AM/FM radios, and livestreams are not allowed because these sounds have codes that when aired, it will actually trigger real EAS to nearby stations to broadcast them. Which not only triggers mass panic, its just straight up a misuse of it and i think its also costly because of maintenance. So yeah, there you have it.
@@spiralhillrailfan3768 i think so because the TV has like some sort of component that broadcast stuff. Although ive seen people prank by putting mock EAS on tv so i might be wrong, i don’t really know about that. Im not a EAS expert nor work for that system. This information is was gathered based on what i read about the EAS and also some people that does know about the EAS or works for this system. I only know that pc or mobile devices are unaffected
@@spiralhillrailfan3768 but i do know that livestreams and anything of live broadcast can trigger it if played and if it has valid tones which many mocks have
Why did they need to be so secretive about the sound? They couldn't just say "You've heard it before. It's the sound before a thunderstorm warning." Or "There's plenty of RU-vid videos with the sound." Also, "It kind of sounds like brap brap brap" no it doesn't.
I work with these systems and know the laws. The reason why is because this video was most likely aired on live television. Airing these tones will actually result in a possible activation of other stations. Its is NOT illegal to play these tones in something like a RU-vid video but IS illegal to play them over TV/FM/AM Radio if there is not a real emergency occurring.
@@EvanVanderStoep that's not what I meant. On live TV, this guy could have said something like "You've probably heard this tone before. It's the tone that plays before thunderstorm warnings" without actually playing it
what should the next EAS tone be? hmmm....well let me call up japan for some inspiration here...by the way FEMA, hows about adding in emergency alerts for earthquakes?? you know californias a big provider and uhhh...
"The system would be obsolete...because missiles are guided by radio waves." What the actual hell, man? CONELRAD was designed to shift transmitters to prevent bombers from navigating to cities. Ever hear of inertial guidance for missiles?
Honestly, I think if a soothing voice of a soothing bot did the announcements part, I think it would be kinda better, it calms people down and it helps them focus
@@mikemotter3685 a little more than a month ago. I had a severe thunderstorm, and I was just chilling in a pedicure place, the warning just popped up on a TV and I didn't think it was gonna be bad. When I got home, it was bad But there was no tornados or anything, but a lot of trees fell down and destroyed power lines. Old brick apartment got destroyed by a tree branches were everywhere. There was even hail.
As long as the SAME header and attention signal are not played on radio or TV waves then it is legal. I make EAS videos as do many other people for years
I work with these systems and know the laws. The reason why is because this video was most likely aired on live television. Airing these tones will actually result in a possible activation of other stations. Its is NOT illegal to play these tones in something like a RU-vid video but IS illegal to play them over TV/FM/AM Radio if there is not a real emergency occurring.
Protect the integrity? They test the system so damn much that I’m desensitized to it. I hear that thing go off and I don’t bother to go running to look what’s going on in the tv in the other room. A missile could be coming and id probably absent mindlessly turn the tv off before the alert system actually said anything.
I work with these systems and know the laws. The reason why is because this video was most likely aired on live television. Airing these tones will actually result in a possible activation of other stations. Its is NOT illegal to play these tones in something like a RU-vid video but IS illegal to play them over TV/FM/AM Radio if there is not a real emergency occurring.
When I was Younger I was Scared of the Emergency Alert System that was on Television and it Expired sometimes it turned back to normal programming theres other problems when the Screen black or Gray that gives me Nightmares when EAS Trimiss the EAS so switches over to UVB-76 which is Spooky sound and there Unknown Messages read in Russia and EAS does Coded Messages Rare Photos on EAS with Cripes or people with mask on scares me on Television this was like way in the late 90s in the 1997 and 2000s even Amber alerts Creepy Photos with people smiling black lines across there eyes I guess those are people who disappeared or died in Cold wars
if i recall the dual tone 850/860hz signals aren't the thing that can trigger EAS equipment in a tv station/tv its the preamble tones that include the S.A.M.E regional identifier and the header data which tells the EAS encoder/decoder hardware the nature and intent of the signal
I think to really get attention they should use Yoko Ono "singing" then again that would prove way too scary and people would wish for total devastation....
How the heck is this video very inaccurate.. The first three sounds are the SAME header, the data about the alert.. Second long tone is the attention tone, then three quick sounds that tell a receiver it's the EOM or (end of message). Also, you can play the sounds on RU-vid, just **not** on TV, Radio.. Places where they issue that sound..
It's an FCC regulation for broadcasters to use tones outside a Valid EAS activation, TV or Video. It usually isn't illegal as several EAS enthusiasts use them for fake scenarios. The only way you can activate an EAS system is by creating a S.A.M.E. text formation, running it through an ENDEC Encoder/Decoder, recording the sound, and playing it on a commercial Mhz frequency, like NWR. That would be illegal if unauthorized.
@@MightyJKF Canada has a completely different warning system called Alert Ready. It uses completely different tones. The Alert Ready tones are more obnoxious than the Emergency Alert System's SAME header and attention signal
You got the sound order wrong. The first 3 tones contain the information on the alert, the attention tone is right, and the 3 short tones after the attention tone are called EOM, meaning End Of Message. The announcement comes after the attention tone and before the EOM tones
GOD i wish it genuinely was punished more for using eas noises irresponsibly or air raid sirens. they immediately trigger fight or flight response for me and are EXTREMELY EXTREMELY paranoia inducing. I like EAS scenario video that IS LABELLED as an EAS sim, but all other use of the noises in music or videos is just, like it feels borderline traumatic to have to hear this sound used improperly from my experience.
Actually since this video is on an non-broadcasting social media platform and not on a broadcasting radio/television station, you have no legal repressions coming your way should you rehash this video unless you plan to do so into a DJ's microphone or right next to a NOAA box. Do either of those two things and you will see the inside of the fedpen
click bait. Of course they can play the sound, but in order to drive views, and LOTS of revenue - they LIE blatantly, knowing no on will ever call them on it.
