[EAS] CAP Test

[Mulford, David]

Ed,

I have monitored and received tests before on the OPEN IPAWS feed.  In
fact I saw a brief test message sent out last Thursday that DID mention
Virginia.
Al Kenyon mentioned that they had sent out a test as they changed the
encoder PC/Station and wanted to make sure the IPAWS OPEN relay was not
broken as a result.

I just made the change you suggested to my CAP FIPS filters so now I'm not
decoding everything IPAWS :)
Although it is interesting to see what kind of alerts IPAWS OPEN is
sending out without the filter.

Global forwarding was setup for my local area so since our DASDEC didn't
see any local FIPS we just decoded but didn't send the IPAWS RWT.

If others in the EST timezone got the IPAWS OPEN messages and I didn't
then something may be wrong with our campus firewall (We're an LPFM at
Roanoke College) that I may have to make sure is fixed.

Mr. David Mulford 
Engineer - WRKE-LP Salem, VA

On 12/12/11 3:46 PM, "Ed Czarnecki" <ed.czarnecki at monroe-electronics.com>
wrote:

>Correction - I meant to type RWT tests on the IPAWS CAP feed...
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On
>Behalf Of Ed Czarnecki
>
>Hi David - have you monitored RMT tests previously on the IPAWS CAP feed?
>
>You might want to do a quick check on your DASDEC CAP alert FIPS filters.
>Double check that the FIPS filters for CAP messages is set for VA.  Then,
>you could also filter out those out-of-region test messages (unless you
>really want RWTs for Guam, of course).
>
>Let me know if that works...
>
>Ed
>
>Edward Czarnecki, Ph.D.
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>Electronics Inc.  |  Digital Alert Systems email
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