[BC] Re: EAS Question

[Glen Kippel]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:17 AM, Alan Alsobrook <radiotech at bellsouth.net>wrote:

> Your 2 LP's are (or should be) assigned in the state plan, so if the plan
> says NWS then NWS is good. Otherwise you should get a letter from the FCC.

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Locally, our Plan encourages stations to monitor NOAA Weather Radio, but
this is optional.  Also, stations in one county that have listenership in an
adjacent county may, at their discretion, may monitor a station (preferably
LP1) in that county and set up the appropriate FIPS code.

One situation that we ran into early on was that there are no California
radio stations receivable in Needles and Blythe.  We had to coordinate with
the EOCs in Arizona that if anything worth an EAS activation occurred there,
the info would go to their agencies and sent out on the LP1 and LP2 in
Mohave County and Yuma County, respectively.  I think Lake Tahoe has a
similar arrangement with Reno.

Also, in the high-desert area called the Morongo Basin, it is not possible
to consistently receive more than their LP1 or LP2, but not both.  I simply
told those stations to find a station that they CAN receive, even if it is
in Las Vegas, and use that for their second monitoring assignment.  But just
let me know what it is so I know what is going on.

Anyway, stations are supposed to abide by their State Plan.   Oh -- in
California, the State Plan is simply a compilation of all the Local Plans.
A "one size fits all" approach doesn't fit every local situation.

P.S. -- Darryl, I may have met you once at one of our LECC meetings.  I
still think your box has too many buttons for most radio stations.  Have you
ever considered making a model with fewer switches and a face plate with
correspondingly fewer holes?