[EAS] clarification please

[Clay Freinwald]

Barry -

They have obviously approached this differently - The DAS is a sophisticated
box, to be sure.  We have a number of them in this area.  For instance, it 
is
my understanding that Belo has standardized on them for all their stations.

Big area of concern is where stations have different or unique coverage and 
where
coding for an area not served etc would be an issue.  In these cases I 
always
recommend separate boxes per station.

I have a client like this here in this area.  Their AM and FM coverage is 
quite
different (The FM is a Rim-Shot) ...Therefore, they have purchased two 
separate
endecs.   As more people become savvy to the programming of more 
sophisticated
EAS boxes this will become a more important factor.

Clay
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry Mishkind" <barry at oldradio.com>
<eas at radiolists.net>

>
>>From: "Edwin Bukont" <ebukont at msn.com>
>>
>>> It appears that if you have an Sage box, and those are essentially one 
>>> per
>>> station, that I have to replace the box to be compliant?  Is it possible
>>> to externally adapt a single CAP device to provide connectivity to two
>>> Sage units?
>
> At 08:39 AM 4/23/2011, Clay Freinwald wrote:
>>You can purchase a multi-station device for the new Sage - and use one box
>>for both stations.   Provided they are in the same local EAS area so that
>>their input and output coding can be the same etc.
>
>        While Sage says they will have one later this year,
>        DAS already has a multi-station unit, that no only
>        permits one box to control multiple stations, but the
>        EAS tests and alerts can overlap (be run at the same
>        time or staggered or at different times) without
>        affecting the other stations.
>
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