[BC] The point of EAS?

[Broadcast List USER]

I wrote this to an EAS list recently.

Frankly, I don't see the point in EAS.  The CAP program won't improve
anything.

There is NO ONE out there in Radio Land with EAS decoders.  NO ONE!
Let's ask TFT how many receivers they have sold!  Those were just 
dual- tone decoders anyway.


The official way to notify the public of a nuclear attack is no longer
EAS, but NOAA Weather Radio.  Why?  People actually have NOAA weather
radios with SAME decoders.

What good does it to to broadcast EAS to the public when they are
asleep?  If there is a poison gas cloud moving toward me, that will be
here in 40 minutes and I am sleeping...  If the warning comes over AM
and FM radio, with or without EAS duck farts, I am dead in 40 minutes.

If it is put on NOAA weather radio, I am golden.  I have TWO weather
radios tuned to the Sterling, Virginia office, one on the Manassas, VA
transmitter, and one on the Washington, DC transmitter.  The DC
receiver used to be tuned to a Baltimore transmitter, but that wasn't
totally reliable, but now it is with the new DC transmitter.

I am an emergency prepariteness nut, so I would be happy to set up EAS
decoders, but I know that EAS is a failed system.  Broadcasters won't
alert me.  NOAA will.

Larry's stations are a bit of an exception, but it wasn't EAS that
alerted the public.  It was a real, live, broadcaster doing the right
thing.  The duck farts didn't do a thing.

--chip

On Oct 9, 2009, at 1:15 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

>Message: 8
>Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:02:44 -0500
>From: Mark Earle <mearle at mearle.com>
>Subject: Re: [BC] Fine? 5k for eas botch?
>
>Yes - the stations I work for are the "end of the line" monitoring NWS
>LP1 LP2. If we originate duck farts, they are heard audibly by
>listeners, but serve no purpose-- in that no one is decoding them.