[EAS] On closed-circuit links..

[Tom Taggart]

...A long story short.

We had a chain of thunderstorms training through here early
this morning. Kaboom! Crash!  Since I was up early anyway I
decided to aircheck the morning show.

Just after 8 I checked the progress & there was this
terrible mishmash on the air. Best I can figure out is
either the local NWS transmitter went down--or it is fed
off-air from another transmitter that went down.
Whatever--the Sage still decoded a message that was not only
down in the noise but was apparently off two different
transmitters with the audio on one delayed by a half second.

I contend the simplest, best improvement that could be made
to emergency alert system would be to:

A. Find a better band for NWS radio (instead of 7 narrowband
channels sandwiched into the marine band;
B. Improve the audio quality (so that it sounds as good as
the Marine Band & not like something recorded underwater);
and
C. Budget for more personnel & training for NWS

Will never happen. Not enough graft potential for the
FOCC'ers (Friends of Congress Critters).