[BC] Getting the right message to the right people

[Glen Kippel]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Mike McCarthy <towers at mre.com> wrote:

> I beg to differ with that blanket assessemnt.  Our stations don't cover
> 100 counties. Each station covers maybe a 1/2 dozen at most.  A couple
> cover only one or two. We choose to super serve the counties which we have
> the best signal and the greatest percentage of listeners. I see no reason
> to blast an EAS message for a county we only partially service with a
> maginal 60dBu/1mV/m contour or have few, if any listeners.
>
> Doing what you suggest would drive away the listeners and increase the
> false alarm perception.  We want our listeners to KNOW that when the EAS
> blast occurs, it's for a specific area of interest. The SAME system allows
> us to do that.
>
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It sounds like your Local Plan may need a tweak or two.  For instance,
adding the sub-codes ("P-codes") to the Plan would allow you to only forward
events for the specific portions of the counties you are interested in.