[EAS] GMC

[Clay Freinwald]

Rich Parker wrote - 

> I have no idea how this might actually work in practice for Governor's
> 'alerts', but in our situation my assumption is that the Gov. would go
> to one of the local Emergency Management headquarters from which the
> existing RMT's are currently originated and 'speak into the mic' from
> that site - to the legacy system in place now.

Rich - 

I highly recommend that you look at this issue in 04-296.   There is 
nothing there that states that a governor must have their voice broadcast.
It goes on to make it clear that the governor may designate someone
to perform the task.   I can tell you that here in Washington State it is
highly unlikely that the Governor would actually wish to be 'on the air' 
via EAS.  It is very likely the State Emergency Management Dept.
will be designated to perform that task and they would likely send
out a - text message - (using CAP) that would be 'read' by the 
EAS boxes.    We need to realize that EAS must be a text driven
system in order to deal with TV Crawls, highway signs, wireless 
devices etc.   EBS, and to a great degree, EAS was designed for 
Radio.   Radio is no longer the primary means of emergency message
distribution, but rather just another vehicle to reach the public.

As for Stations having an IP connection.   I have not heard of any
station in Washington State that is not so connected.  Even Forks
Washington (look this one up on a map) with a small AM-FM
Station,  has an Internet connection and is now fully connected and 
operating their new Endec with our CAP system.

Hope this is helpful

Clay Freinwald