EAS for the UK?

The big issue I have with Plymouth's emergency warning system is that you *can't* hear it clearly all over the city. You can obviously hear it in Devonport, and when I lived in Stonehouse you could hear it there, but by the time it reaches the Devonport end of the city centre it's barely audible unless the wind is carrying it, and by the Drake Circus end you can't really hear it at all over the traffic (again unless the wind is blowing it that way). Being also that it's all but impossible to evacuate Devonport at short notice with it being horrendously overcrowed and all direct access by minor local roads, I hate to think what might happen if there were ever a real emergency there.


Being that it sounds exactly like a WW2 air raid siren, I'd imagine that the sirens do indeed date from the 1940's, were maintained through the cold war to the early 90's (as happened nationally) but in Devonport's case, have been maintained and are still operational today. That being the case, I'd feel fairly certain that they have in their past sounded genuine emergency.

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vaiguely related - but within the last few weeks bbc midlands launched their child rescue alert system - and here it is in action (a test of course) during bargain hunt.

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/childrescuealert-resized.jpg

And also note that it is 14:9 pillarboxed as a result. (The network feed into regional vision mixers is always from the 4:3 analogue network - whether the region is analogue or digital - because the analogue network is "earlier")

Apologies MODPLO:Ministry Of Defence Police

Back to the subjest EAS for England, i've found this video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Il7fY7UNZjs

When is that likely to be re-engineered?

A test for whose benefit ? Sticking a local caption over the top of a network picture is hardly leading edge rocket science, or perhaps it is at the Shoebox ?

So you made up the abbreviation MODPLO on your own?

You don't mean Ministry of Defence Police at all (which for the 10 years I worked at Devonport abbreviated themselves to MDP). They are a civilian organisation.

Your link leads to the RN Provost, which are military staff, who also never referred to themselves as MODPLO.

Neither would ever come up with an abbreviation which was so close to the derisory label of "MOD-plod" by which they were known internally.

I wasn't sure what it was, i knew the Police Dog Department were MODPLOD and i thought it was the same for the MOD Police. - Apologies.

Say there was a EAS System in place and the UK was plunged into a Nuclear Biological or Chemical attack and the EAS Failed, what eould happen? Are there any back up systems in place?

And if there were a NBC Attack on the UK, with No EAS, what would happen?

Fair enough, but (and I'm going off topic here) how did BBC South East manage it on Election night?

All the regions added local straps, all in 14:9 - except for Tunbridge Wells, which managed full 16:9. Strap was a tad flickery around the top and bottom, but definitely over a 16:9 picture.

So did they employ some sort of cheat?

Surely to do that the opt points must have been pretty messy? Unless they stayed in circuit after the local news

Looked fine to me, though I was channel-hopping a bit on Sky...