[EAS] Digital Endec

[Harold Price]

Tom,

You can give our support number a call if you need help, or to make 
suggestions for improvement.  914-872-4069, extension 1.

For most small stations, DHCP is sufficient to get on the local lan, 
and the ENDEC is set to default to that.  Otherwise, you do need to 
enter the static address, and know what your gateway, netmask, and 
DNS servers are.  Once you are on the LAN, things are pretty easy.

We do set up defaults for static, 192.168.1.50, 255.255.255.0, 
gateway 192.168.1.1.  Some users use that to start then make 
adjustments with the settings for the final configuration.

Experience with selling the older product told us that stations 
wanted *only* the FCC required alerts to be pre-programmed in the 
box, and that's the way we ship.  However, there is a pre-programmed 
filter called "others", with a wildcard all events programmed in and 
set to log only, that is, don't send them.

To get your box to send all alerts, change that to automatic 
relay.  In practice, of course, you don't want to do that.  The 
recent tornado that went through here resulted in 17 weather alerts 
in two hours, 10 of them in a half hour period.  You will need to 
build one filter, with the list of alerts you want to send.  The 
interface is a drop down list of all the events, and you can add them 
in a single filter.

We ship the box with defaults to keep you legal.  Anything else does, 
unfortunately, require customization.  At least with the LAN, it is 
far easier than 1996 when you had to use the front panel.

It is a network device, and it does need to be customized by the user 
for the 50 different state plans, 3300 different counties, corporate 
and FCC requirements, for stations that just want to do the minimum, 
to clusters with multiple stations that are the LP1 for the area.

Give us a call.  I'd like to get ideas for how to improve the startup 
guide.  We're currently caught between teaching you to fish, and just 
handing you a fish.  I am working on a more step by step, just do 
this and then just do that startup guide.  Mmmmm, fish.

Harold

At 02:20 PM 4/1/2011, Tom Taggart wrote:

>We are far enough along in the computer age that there is no
>excuse for shipping stuff that requires you open the fuel
>petcock, set the spark, chock the wheels then spin the hand
>crank.