[VoiceOps] IPAWS/FEMA National Test - VoWIFI

[Jay R. Ashworth]

I now have a counter report that the Cellular Control Channel necessary to get
these alerts to a cellphone *is not proxied by carrier WIFI-connect*, by design.

I'm familiar with his credentials, and I'll assume he knows what he's talking about,
cause *I* know what he's talking about, and he sounds like he's talking sense.  :-)

Thanks to everyone who responded.

If you *did* get an alert, *and you know you were not in range of ANY cell network*,
only WIFI proxy, that wasn't supposed to be possible and I would still like to hear
about that.

Cheers,
-- jr 'just zis guy, you know?' a

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jay R. Ashworth via VoiceOps" <voiceops at voiceops.org>
> To: "VoiceOps" <voiceops at voiceops.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 3:25:04 PM
> Subject: [VoiceOps] IPAWS/FEMA National Test - VoWIFI

> I have a report from a usually reliable source that he did not receive today's
> IPAWS/CMAS/WEA test message, and he surmises this might be because his phone
> handset is forced to VoWIFI.  I have a number of other reports, mostly though
> not all, from the broadcast engineering community; nobody reported expecting
> a CMAS and not getting it, so that's not data here.
> 
> Is anyone on the list involved with the FEMA/IPAWS/CMAS link, or knows someone
> who is, and has a channel to clear this query up through?
> 
> I could be unsurprised to find that the carrier VoWIFI proxies missed out on
> proxying SMS Cell Broadcast, which I gather provides the underlying PHY for
> CMAS.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> 
> --
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Jay R. Ashworth                  Baylink                       jra at baylink.com
Designer                     The Things I Think                       RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates       http://www.bcp38.info          2000 Land Rover DII
St Petersburg FL USA      BCP38: Ask For It By Name!           +1 727 647 1274