[EAS] Activity at the FCC

[Tom]

OK; using the text message to feed a CG; transmitting a child's 
picture... these are great for TV and cable...  but where's the 
advantages to *radio*?  And this still doesn't address one of the major 
concerns of using the internet as opposed to other, generally vastly 
more reliable, methods of delivering the message(s) to *radio* 
stations.  I believe that the CAP is just someone re-inventing the 
wheel... everything except the IP delivery could have been done by 
simply upgrading the existing SAME code list; and IP delivery is, as we 
all know, subject to interruption at any time even absent an impending 
disaster.

k7cr wrote:
> There is a huge job to be done here demonstrating the advantages of CAP at 
> the station level. {...] In our recent SBE EAS session where we got into the nitty gritty of our new 
> system here I took some time to explain how TV Stations could begin getting 
> their crawl info from the same text that's used for the voice message and 
> stop using the Header Codes for that purpose. [...]
> Amber is another mission for EAS that can be enhanced via the use of CAP 
> (transmission of a child's picture comes to mind)

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Tom Spencer
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