[EAS] My thought on stations involvement of EAS

[Lowell Kiesow]

At 07:36 AM 2/4/2011, you wrote:

>      Post of the month. If anyone looks at the new Sage, you
>will see an option to hold off anything except for an EAN,
>from the front panel, for a period of time. I requested that
>from Sage. I pointed out my concern to Harold Price and crew
>at NAB last year, in that I want the TOR's to go
>immediately, when we are not there. But we are staffed M-F
>5am to 9pm, and more than once, I had to pull the AC power
>to the older Sages so that we would not be interrupted by
>NOAA issued TOR's, as we were airing them live anyway.

Not a new feature.  The original Sage could do that in message 
filtering, as can the new, blue one.  If you want, every event code 
can have a different hold time.  For example, an EVI can go through 
immediately, and a HWW can hold 15 minutes.  And, there is a clock 
setting to put the box in automatic after the staff goes home.  At 9 
pm, the hold times could be reduced to zero without anyone having to 
push any buttons.  After working with the new Sage's, it's hard to 
imagine much in terms of flexibility that isn't already built in.  It 
just takes some effort to fully configure the unit with EndecSet software.



         Lowell Kiesow, Chief Engineer
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