[BC] NOAA/NWS--correction

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Mike:

You misunderstood what I wrote.  I believe the stations did a GREAT  
job of warning people.  I just don't believe the duck farts did much.

They did act responsibly and properly.

Larry:

This is more information than I had before.

Still, what you write adds to my concern about EAS.

Three stations did good, three station did nothing.  This isn't good.

I rely on NOAA Weather Radio for my safety.  I don't believe MOST  
broadcasters will alert me, thus I have no broadcast EAS receivers.   
If I believed in the system, I would have broadcast EAS receivers.

As I have written before, I have two WX receivers, on on the DC  
transmitter, and one on the Manassas, VA transmitter of the Sterling,  
VA center.  They work.

Then again, I have been part of the Maryland and DC EAS systems, and  
the Maryland system tests just failed.  I just don't generally trust  
broadcasters.

Larry, your stations did an exceptional job, but most don't.

I'm not sure I would give your system a thumbs up though, as 50% of  
the stations did not relay your message.  YOU did well, but the island  
stations did not.  50% is not good.

Other than the state of Washington, I really don't know of any plan  
that actually works.  Thanks, Clay.

There may be others, but I am not aware of them.  The DC system is  
certainly totally not good, and the Maryland and Virginia systems are  
failures.

--chip

On Oct 27, 2009, at 9:00 AM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 3
> From: "Larry Fuss" <lfuss2 at cox.net>
>
> Mike McCarthy said:
>
>> All due respect Chip, you're wearing blinders.  Since they're the  
>> LP-1, it
>> wasn't only for the public's ears. Stations which monitor them we're
>> notified at that same instant. In my opinion, the staff acted  
>> responsibly
>> and properly.
>
> Three other stations immediately relayed the warning we originated.   
> I even
> got an e-mail from the owner of one of the local Christian stations  
> who said
> a preacher heard the relayed alert on his station and immediately  
> spread the
> word to people in his village.  He's crediting that alert with  
> saving lives.
> There were 3 other stations that didn't air the alert - one was due  
> to a
> configuration issue, the second an ongoing stupidity issue, and the  
> third
> was the government-owned TV station that has NO EAS gear!
>
> Larry Fuss