[BC] Satellite EAS

[Robert Meuser]

This could be a case of being careful what you wish for. Sat radio already has 
an emergency channel. Now add GPS to mate to FIPS codes and you have highly 
LOCALIZED EAS; tornadoes down to a county' etc.  Another killer app against 
radio.   Is anyone sure they want such a thing mandated?  Maybe you want OEM car 
radios that interrupt SAT radio when local radio activates EAS.

R

Dan Kelley wrote:
> I'm sure the satellite guys would be able to accommodate to pass
> scruitiny by doing EAS on a separate stream, interrupting whatever
> channel the consumer was listening to on a regional basis.
> 
> I'm sure it could be done.  Case closed.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
> [mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Tom Bosscher
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 6:36 PM
> To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [BC] Satellite EAS
> 
> Mike McCarthy wrote:
> 
> 
>>Almost two dozen legislators have written to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin 
>>to ask that satellite radio be required to deliver emergency 
>>information to its subscribers.
>>
>> 
>>
> 
>     My thought? They are a satellite service. If they have any terra 
> based repeaters, they are no longer a satellite service, from that 
> repeater, no more than a local AM that is 24 hour sat fed. That terra 
> based repeater IS THE TRANSMITTER, fed from outer space.
> 
>     As such, every terra repeater should have the electronics in it to 
> monitor, log and transmit all EAS activity in that market. There has to 
> be RWT's, RMT's, and of course, proper logging. I do not feel that the 
> satellite uplink needs any EAS on it. Just the repeaters.
> 
>     I'm not asking the sat boys to do anything that I don't do. Whats 
> good for one...
> 
>     tom bosscher
> 
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