[EAS] Activity at the FCC

[k7cr]

Hi Alan - 

We have a Washington State EAS Remailer - I'll put out an 'want' for an audio file and send it .

Everyone that has heard it puts it on a par with NWS and their text readers.   One word of caution - 
I'm not sure what text readers the various makers of new CAP  Based EAS equipment are using, they may not be the same.   This is a great question!

Let me see what I can do - 

Clay
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Allen Sklar 
  To: The EAS Forum - accurate,up-to-date information on the EAS and its implementation 
  Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 8:48 PM
  Subject: Re: [EAS] Activity at the FCC


  Hi Clay,

  If you would and could please, Can you insert a run of the mill weather or some other 
  text message into the system, then take the output audio file and attach to an email
  on this server, I'd like to hear it, I think others would like to hear what it sounds like.
  I ask this with all due respect to you, Richard and others.
  Thanks Again.... 



  Allen Sklar
  Tempe AZ USA


    -------- Original Message --------
    Subject: Re: [EAS] Activity at the FCC
    From: "k7cr" <k7cr at blarg.net>
    Date: Sun, January 23, 2011 9:08 pm
    To: "The EAS Forum - accurate and up-to-date information on the EAS
    andits implementation" <eas at radiolists.net>

    Tom - 

    As you perhaps have heard, Washington State is not waiting for the 
    Feds to make up their mind and is rolling out our own CAP based
    system right now.

    One of the major reasons for making this change now was the 
    lousy quality of the audio contained in most EAS messages.
    The originators were afraid of the microphone, there was not 
    audio leveling involved, signal to noise ratios were horrid..in short, 
    in many cases, the audio message sounded like 'crap' or in some 
    cases could not be understood at all. Lets face it, you make 
    the message sound bad and, for radio, that's all we have.

    We tried and tried for 10 years to resolve all these issues and 
    we still were getting complaints. (Mainly from Radio Stations) 

    Our CAP system completely solved the problem in a number of 
    ways - 

    1 - The message originators no longer have to deal with mic-fright
    as most of them no longer 'voice' a message (or test) 

    2- We no longer expect to have quality degradation via a number
    of relays

    3- Message originators type their message into a computer and 
    send it.

    4 - That text-message is distributed, via CAP, to the region the 
    originator wishes it to go - Their City, County, adjacent counties
    or the whole state.

    5- At the station level, that text message is then READ by the 
    text reader within the CAP capable EAS Decoder. Out comes
    crystal clear audio and everyone is happy.

    6- Stations can also then 'read' that message on their studio 
    displays (the EAS/CAP box is networked at the station) over and 
    over...or, if desired, they can print it, as they would any other 
    text message. 

    As for other " vastly more reliable, methods of delivering the message(s)
    to *radio* stations" - What would you propose? and (most important) 
    how would you fund it?.

    Again I need to ask - What portions of EAS are you talking about?
    National, State, Local or Weather?

    As for the approach of simply upgrading SAME...I fail to see how 
    SAME could be upgraded to do what CAP will and is doing.

    Other final point - 

    We need to understand that Radio is not the only public warning 
    system out there. Frankly Radio has been doing a very poor job
    with public warnings in that many station choose to ignore their 
    moral obligation to forward the messages.

    The who concept of IPAWS is to 'Integrate' our public warning 
    system. Those that are sources of public warning messages (the
    person that is entering the information into their computer, need a 
    system that will reach not only radio, but TV, Cable, Cell Phones, 
    Highway Signs, etc etc. Radio is not the only means of alerting
    people any more. CAP is the means by which one message 
    can reach all these systems. This is something that SAME 
    could never do.

    Hope this helps...

    Thanks for your interest in EAS.

    Clay Freinwald


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