[BC] Usefulness of EAS

[Glen Kippel]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Gary Peterson <kzerocx at rap.midco.net> wrote:
 
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>When there is a RMT or a CAE test, the audio
>portion seems to drag on and on.  "This is a test
>of the (fill in the blank) system, which is
>designed to (blah, blah, blah, blah)."  "If this
>was a real (fill in the blank), you would have
>received (blah, blah, blah, blah)."  The audio
>portion is usually longer than a 60 second
>commercial.  After this has been heard over a span
>of many years, it's no mystery to me why people
>begin to ignore this stuff.

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Especially when the RMT audio is so mushy and distorted that nobody can understand it, as is frequently the case.  Locally, the EOC sends the RMT with the message, "This is for the Riverside area."  Since we are about 50- 60 miles away from Riverside, it's no wonder that people consider the message irrelevant.