[BC] EAS efficacy

[Broadcast List USER]

Agreed.

The real problem is between the keyboard and the chair.

But still, it doesn't matter.  In a past life, when we tried statewide
tests in Maryland, there was always at least one station that didn't
take it seriously in every area, and the tests crashed and burned.

The state of Washington seems to have a working system, using a state
police channel that covers the entire state.  I don't know of any
other state that does it that well.

--chip

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

>Message: 16
>Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:07:36 -0600
>From: Sid Schweiger <sid at wrko.com>
>Subject: Re: [BC] Fine? 5k for eas botch?
>
>As for EAS as a whole, I guess I'm just not a believer.  As we
>engineers are fond of saying:  Too many potential failure points.
>If they'd keep it around for its original purpose (to give the
>President a means of addressing most of the country during a
>national emergency), and devise a system of periodically testing the
>equipment without causing widespread panic, that would sit well with
>me.  The patchwork of state and local "plans" (and let's remember
>that some states still don't have either FCC-approved plans or any
>plans at all) is what's killing the system's usefulness, IMHO.