[EAS] CAP Test (test vs. exercise in CAP)

[Dave Turnmire]

Ed,
Many thanks for the detailed info regarding the CAP "status" element. If I'm understanding you correctly, it sounds like you may have revised your view a bit from your Dec 5 posting where you suggested that FEMA might want to consider using "test" or "exercise" for some of their RWTs.  Now you seem to indicate that would be unwise since the RWTs wouldn't be logged by some or all EAS decoders (including the DASDEC if configured as you suggest).  Do I have that correct? 

Also, I'm still curious why my DASDEC's "ops log" showed the "blocked" (due to my FIPS filtering) RWTs last week... but don't show ANY this week when others have reported that RWTs went out.  Can you tell from your logs (or perhaps Al can comment) whether FEMA changed the "status" of their RWTs this week?  SHOULDthe DASDEC ops log show CAP alerts regardless of FIPS codes and the status element (as distinct to the Decoder log which seems to observe the FIPS filter)?

Sorry to be a pest on this... just trying to get a good understanding of how this works since as a member of our SECC and LECC, I tend to get questions from EAS participants here.  Nice to know the answers...

Thanks

Dave