[EAS] On closed-circuit links..

[Ira Wilner]

Tom are you sure it wasn't the Sage Endec issue of multiple scanned alert channels bleeding into each other due to Endec audio level overload?  The mux chips are very susceptible to overload.  I've had the problem especially with the new digital unit and had to lower audio levels way down.  Problem is some of the EAS sources don't have keep alive audio on them you can use for testing or the audio levels may get a lot hotter for alerts or the Sage unit may only show overload when multiple sources are incoming simultaneously while one is going out.  Harold at Sage is aware of that issue.

--Ira

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-----Original Message-----
From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of 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.

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