[EAS] EAS Voice Quality

[Clay Freinwald]

Rich Parker wrote -

> Also, internally we have been discussion the idea of 'offering' our
> studios to VEM and others to 'record' standard audio messages (RWT, RMT,
> etc) to be used for sending alerts - particularly once CAP is
> implemented. The idea being that even with their best efforts, the audio
> coming out of the 'front panel' mics is usually pretty bad/noisy/low and
> a nicely produced, pre-recorded file available to them would make things
> 'nice' for local broadcasters. Thoughts?

Rich -

You might want to take a look at the way we are resolving the voice quality
issue here in Washington State.   As you may know, we are well underway
with our CAP system using Mystateusa.   We have pretty much eliminated
all the crappy sounding audio by eliminating the use of any analog voice
distribution (except for the back-up state and local relay networks)
Sources of EAS Messages are all sent to the CAP-Server in Text - Each
EAS box at the station level 'reads' the text - Problem solved.

Happy to provide more info if you wish - Contact Don Miller of Washington
State Emergency Management for addition info at d.miller at emd.wa.gov

IMHO - Voice transmission via EAS is great for presidential messages
etc...but not much beyond that for the reasons you mention.

Clay Freinwald