[BC] EAS box placement

[Broadcast List USER]

Larry:

We had a bit of this early on in Washington, DC.  The offending  
stations really understood the problem, and they didn't want to cause  
trouble, so it was fixed.  It works pretty well on the broadcast side  
now, but cable still sucks.

NWS nearly always does a good job, but they don't originate any RMTs  
in DC.  Maybe they should.  Generally, their alerts and weekly tests  
go fine.  There was an issue Monday though.  My receiver opened up  
for a different county in a different state.  There must have been 30  
SAME data bursts.  Then, the announcement that this county, two hours  
away, was opening the High School as a warming shelter was repeated  
for over five minutes, with no EOM data bursts.  It was the little  
pink bunny, it kept going and going and going...

You should complain to those screwing up.  If they won't agree to  
take it seriously, become a non-participating station, and let  
everyone you can know why.  The ECs are not going to be happy to have  
you drop out.

It is pretty amazing to me how seriously they take broadcast station  
participation.  At one meeting (I was an EBS area coordinator) I  
asked "how many of you have decoders on any TVs or AM/FM radios.  A  
very few hands went up, maybe two out of about 100.  I explained that  
they were not monitoring, and they had an interest that the general  
public doesn't.  I had over half state they always have a TV and/or a  
radio on all the time.  I asked, "While SLEEPING?"  Over 20% claimed  
they had a TV and/or radio on 24 hours a day.  NUTZ!

Those emergency planners are the ones who will fix it for you.

Still, you need to do the right thing and not just not relay.  You  
need to drop out.  Fines start at $8,000.

--chip

On Mar 4, 2009, at 3:11 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 9
> From: "Larry Fuss" <lfuss2 at cox.net>
>
> I refuse to allow other stations self-promotional messages to be
> forwarded on my station.  I refuse to forward 2-minutes of cr*p from
> the NWS that has been improperly coded as a RMT.  At some point,
> people have to stand up and say "enough of this s**t",  In fact,
> that's how this country got started.
>
> LF
>
> Earlier, someone else wrote:
>
>> That's a bad idea Larry.  Just because you don't agree
>> with something that's essentially codified into law
>> doesn't allow or justify unilateral disobedience.