[BC] EAS Question

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Different parts of the country are -- (DUH) DIFFERENT!

No one station can cover Nye County, Nevada, the county just west of  
Clark County, which is Las Vegas.

Nye County is just over 19,000 square miles, and NO station can cover  
it.  Even linking stations together is going to be hard -- though I  
think they have done a fair job doing it.

Then, look at DC.  My county, Loudoun County, Virginia, is ONLY 517  
square miles.  There must be 30 stations covering it with City Grade  
(No, I didn't check.)

A DC Class B FM can cover well over 20 counties, while a Nye County  
Class B (are there any) cannot cover even a small part.

NOAA WX radio covers an amazing large percentage of the population of  
the US, and it is getting better every day.  EVERY broadcast station  
should use the best NOAA station available.

In some situations, it is impossible for stations to reasonably  
receive their assignments.  In once case, I had an AM/FM combo that  
was supposed to receive a TV station some 70+ miles away, but to make  
the situation worse, there is a HUGE mountain in the way.  Dish  
Network was the answer, and no one had a problem with us using it --  
PLUS Dish had a special broadcast deal that once we bought the  
equipment (only a few hundred Dollars) it was $4.95 a month!

Sometimes you need to be flexible.

I would suggest that some California TV stations would be available  
on Dish or Direct TV in Needles or Blythe, though neither of those  
towns are in any danger of anything happening to them!

I have to tell you though, NOAA is MUCH more reliable than broadcast  
relay, and I defy anyone to tell me different.  TOO MANY THINGS GO  
WRONG in broadcast station relay.

--chip

On Mar 6, 2009, at 6:00 AM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 8
> From: Glen Kippel <glen.kippel at gmail.com>
>
> 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.
>
> ---------------
>
> 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?