Emergency Alert System

(EAS)
Information Page for
Portland, OR
and Vancouver, WA

Note:  the Portland/Vancouver Operational Area includes the counties of
Clackamas, Columbia, Multnomah, and Washington in Oregon, and Clark in Washington.

 


 

Portland Local Area Emergency Communications Committee Co-Chairs:

Kent Randles K7YXZ
Senior Engineer
Entercom-Portland
Co-Chair, Portland/Vancouver Local Area Emergency Communications Committee (LAECC)
krandles at entercom dot com
503-535-0482

and

John White K7RUN
Chief Engineer
KKPZ/KDZR
Co-Chair, Portland/Vancouver LAECC
jdwhite at teleport dot com
503-242-1950

 


 

2012 Portland/Vancouver EAS
Required Monthly Test Schedule

 

Statewide Tests

Month

Originator

Scheduled RMT

Make-up RMT

February

State

 Wednesday, February 8th, 12:15 AM

Tuesday, February 14th, 12:15 AM

April

State

Tuesday, April 3rd, 12:15 AM

Monday, April 9th, 12:15 AM

June

State

Tuesday June 5th, 12:15 AM

Monday June 11th, 12:15 AM

August

State

Friday August 3rd, 12:15 AM

Thursday August 9th, 12:15 AM

October

State

Thursday, October 4th, 12:15 AM

Wednesday, October 10th, 12:15 AM

December

State

Tuesday December 4th, 12:15 AM

Monday, December 10th, 12:15 AM

 

 Local Tests

Month

Originator

Scheduled RMT

Make-up RMT

January

Local

Friday January 6th, 10:15 AM

Thursday January 12th, 10:15 AM

March

Local

Wednesday, March 7th, 10:15 AM

Wednesday, March 14th, 10:15 AM

May

Local

Monday May 7th, 10:15 AM

Monday May 14th, 10:15 AM

July

Local

Thursday July 5th, 10:15 AM

Wednesday July 11th, 10:15 AM

September 

Eastern Local

Wednesday, September 5th, 10:15 AM

Tuesday, September 11th, 10:15 AM

September

Western Wide

Wednesday, September 12th,  10:15 AM

Tuesday, September 18th, 10:15 AM

November

Local

Monday, November 5th, 10:15 AM

Tuesday, November 13th, 10:15 AM

 


 

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To get on the EAS-OR e-mail list, which has coordination info but not alerts, go to http://www.broadcast.net/mailman/listinfo/eas-or.
You can use this link any time to unsubscribe from the list, to switch to and from digest mode,
to check back issues of the list (which will be available after the list has been getting posts for a day or so), etc.

For the EAS Information on the National SBE Web Site go to: http://www.sbe.org/eas/eas.html


 

For ALL the required Oregon EAS Monitoring Assignments:

http://www.sbe124.org/or_eas/Oregon_EAS_Monitoring_Assignments.html

 

Oregon State EAS Plan

 

In addition to the two required EAS monitoring assignments in Portland/Vancouver,
LP-1 101.1 KXL and LP-2 92.3 KGON,
think about monitoring (in this order):

Local Relay Network 166.25 MHz
(first-generation audio for tests and alerts from Multnomah, Washington, and Clark counties)

National Weather Service:  162.55 MHz (Portland office)

State Relay (SR): 91.5 KOPB-FM (the first generation audio for tests and alerts from the State)

Capital Operational Area (Salem) LP-1 KWVT-LP TV Channel 17.2 (since Salem is in the Portland metro)

Washington State Relay Network (SRN):  155.475 MHz (except for RMT and CAE)

 


 

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