[EAS] A Different Perspective

[k7cr]

Very nicely said, Bill -

This is one of the reasons I have been talking about the new CAP
bases system here in Washington State.  It's my hope that others
will come take a close look at something works rather than spending
more time and money trying to invent something new.   Like you
said, expand on the 'working systems'.

Our CAP implementation appears to be a technical solution to
a political problem in that those in EM are quite excited about it...
In that quarter, it's been a 180 turn (and those are hard to come by)

I'm not sure that Radio will every 'buy-in' to EAS, it's likely to require
a regulatory kick in the butt.   As for TV, CAP really solves their
biggest gripe - Making the crawl say the same thing as the aural message
and dumping the header codes.

Another great benefit to CAP is that it gets rid of the Daisy Chain, once
and for all.   That was a lightning rod for EBS and for 13 years now, EAS.
Putting that system 6 feet (or more ) under, is a good feeling.

Clay Freinwald

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Ruck" <ruck at lns.com>
To: "The EAS Forum - accurate,up-to-date information on the EAS and its 
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Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 8:19 PM
Subject: [EAS] A Different Perspective


> While it is important to continue to work out the bugs I am also
> trying to relate a much bigger perspective.
>
> I have found through painful experience that in life there are
> engineering problems and there are political problems.  Don't confuse
> them.  I don't know whether an engineering solution to a political
> problem is worse than a political solution to an engineering problem
> but either way it is ugly.
>
> We need to build on and expand on the working EAS systems to make a
> working public emergency warning system throughout the U.S.  I will
> say that this is my goal.  That really needs complete buy-in at the
> broadcast owner and management level to get the attention of the
> local elected representatives.  If the cities get it and then the
> counties get it the state should be easy.  This is a political
> solution to a political problem.
>
> On the other hand, if there is no buy-in at station management and
> local government but we engineers continue to improve the technology
> we'll have a HD 3D 5.1 surround sound in 60 languages EAS system that
> nobody will use.
>
> That is why I said that the SBE and APCO may not be the best
> organizations to lead the way.  Both groups are very similar -- we're
> boiler room kinda guys.  We need broadcast owner/manager groups and
> police chief and fire chief groups and elected representatives to
> make it happen.  If those groups get together and agree that a
> working public warning system is desired then the resources to let
> the worker bees do the job will be available.
>
> Bill Ruck
> Curmudgeon
> San Francisco
>
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