My local NOAA radio station has been humming away almost perfectly for years, but suddenly this month, they have been having major problems with it--noise, having to resort to manually doing the announcement, and then the EAS over the broadcast radio, which has been not working for years, suddenly is working, but the audio is all distorted. I can only believe that all of this has been in preparation for the big test in October.
The fact that the feds are finally getting serious about fixing the system makes me think that they realize the precarious nature of things, and they are finally getting their act together before the SHTF. All I can say is, it's about time.