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Companies keep getting fined for playing fake emergency alert tones (theverge.com)
1 point by cgabios on May 19, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


On a related note, I think radio commercials with sirens and honking horns should not be allowed. I have been confused by these a number of times and it is a real nuisance.


Try this at home (and only at home), on a signal generator:

EAS combined tone (TV) 853 Hz sine-wave + 960 Hz sine-wave ("+" means simply combine both waves together, neither modulation nor any other fancy convolutions)

EAS single tone (AM radio) 1050 hz sine-wave

For iOS, http://sgenerator.scorpionzzz.com/en/index.html is a full-featured signal generator.




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