[BC] Usefulness of EAS

Mike McCarthy towers at mre.com
Tue Jun 12 22:44:33 CDT 2012


NWS doesn't use the subdivisions.  While they could, they don't.  The
polygon system doesn't work well that way.  If the polygons could be
"molded" to confirm to the subdivisions, then that's different.  But their
AWIPs system doesn't do that at present.

MM

> The reason for this, is, they're narrow-casting with SAME, which can go
> by sub-parts of counties.
>
> However, "we" broadcasters, don't decode SAME. So we get it over, and
> over, and over.
>
> mwe



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