The Global Weather & EAS Society released it’s public EAS resources for the 2023 calendar year Sunday. Along with these resources, GWES has also made some changes to improve the user experience on the website. The testing calendars and EAS map have been GWES’s flagship resources […]
Jon goes to the USVI and discusses the Montana CAE test, and more!
Darren Blair, Cove Leader-Press newspaper (https://www.coveleaderpress.com/) Pop quiz. You’re preparing for work one morning when you get a group text message on your phone… a message sent to you and quite literally everyone else who works at the company you do. Seems some shenanigans have gone […]
You may have heard the term “GWES Media” thrown around lately. You may ask yourself, “what in the world is GWES Media?” We take an inside look into who they are, and what they do for the community! Who makes it up? With new changes across […]
On Dec. 14, 2022, the Global Weather & EAS Society announced changes to the onboarding process of new members. These changes are part of a series of changes focused on the growth of the EAS and Weather communities. Previously, members were required to complete a series […]
UPDATE: The GWES ERN Podcast has been cancelled due to production difficulties. If you are a listener of the GWES ERN Podcast, you may be wondering to yourself, “I wonder how they create each episode?” It all starts with an idea. For the podcast, GWES has […]
When you think of SKYWARN, you probably think of incessant amber lighting, car-mounted weather doohickeys, and high-adrenaline chasing of severe weather. But in reality, there is a much more safe- and humble- side to it. Yesterday, the National Weather Service (NWS) and Amateur Radio Relay League […]
On December 5th 2022, the Global Weather & EAS Society announced changes that focus on the health and future of the EAS community as a whole, changing away from a hierarchal staff model, to a council model. In these new changes, a new Leadership Council has […]
The Federal Communications Commission announced new dates for EAS changes, regarding accessibility and understandability. Back in September of this year, the FCC adopted a Report and Order that will require EAS participants to transmit IPAWS-CAP versions of messages, rather than the legacy EAS format. The EAN […]