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Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz
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This page is a sample test page about radio messages. It says the feed is waiting, so there is no live news story here.
What this page is
The title says the page is about US nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages heard on 11175 kHz. But the text is only sample data for testing the site. It says WAITING FOR FEED, so no real messages are shown.
About the page
The page reads two public files, archive.json and status.json. It also uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts visits without cookies. Signing in is optional and sets one cookie just to keep you signed in. Times on the page are in UTC, also called Zulu time.
Why it matters
Because this is test data, you should not treat it as real news about military messages. The site says its recordings and decodes are public domain under CC0 1.0, and it asks for credit to missileer.watch.
Glossary
- kHz
- Kilohertz, a unit of radio frequency. 11175 kHz is the frequency named in the title.
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
- A tool that counts website visits without using tracking cookies.
- CC0 1.0
- A public domain license that lets anyone reuse the content freely.
- archive.json
- A data file the page reads to load its archive of records.