[EAS] More questions for the list

[Tom Taggart]

1.All the gadget needs to do is take an incoming internet
CAP message, generate header and eom fsk for the EAS
decoder, and generate voice from the text message.

Everything else is irrelevant.

2. Less is more.  More geegaws = more to go wrong.  Computer
geeks never learned the KISS principle.

3. Hell yes. Cheaper the better.  Besides, having a separate
box is more flexible in terms of finding a place for the
gadget & wiring it into a lan, or even directly into a
cable/ dsl modem in a simple installation.  

Where this would really come in handy would be for satellite
stations with no studios, where the current EAS decoder is
at the transmitter site. Some of these sites may not even
have telephone, let alone internet. With a separate cap
decoder, the decoded message audio could then be sent from
an internet access point up to the transmitter by radio
link. (Or "down"--on a separate cue feed from a satellite or
microwave link). Thereby allowing localized CAP traffic to
be fed to that particular transmitter for alerting through
the standard EAS decoder.