[BC] Usefulness of EAS

[Kevin Raper]

On Jun 13, 2012, at 1:02 AM, Keith Hammond wrote:

>We have a new Sage
>Endec and it is set up so that anything not immediately life-threatening
>(tornado watch or amber alert, for example) pops up a window (delayed send)
>letting anyone on duty know that an alert has been received and allowing us
>to act as "call screener" or, at least delay the message until a natural
>break in programming.

All 3 of my stations are 100% Automated, so there are no breaks to run Delayed EAS Alerts. It is run 'em or don't, so we run 'em.

In Local or State Alerts EAS does work when used properly, but National Alerts were proven not to work in the National EAS Test. Those Stations who got any Audio at all were so garbled nobody could understand the message. If Nukes were falling, nobody would ever know because they couldn't hear the message.

A better way to do EAS would for the National Weather Service to keep on issuing Thunderstorm watches and Warnings, along with Tornado Watches with just the 1000 Cycle alert tone for Weather Radios, but only blow the Duck Farts for Tornado Warnings and Storms with Quarter Sized or bigger Hail.

National EAS is a waste of Tax and Private Money.

73,
Kevin Raper
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