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Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, and Ohio mistakenly received a false EAN. Early indications pointed to a human error at the National Emergency Coordination Center in Virginia that routed a test requested by a relay for the Chicago area to test
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initially received, and during any time a new message was not available, an FCC mandated standby script was used (and repeated). Other stations, which held special permission from the FCC, would sign off until the end of the EAN.
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