[EAS] Two Primary areas?

[Tom Taggart]

Ed:

Have one Sage--and another coming (bought a DasDec but
didn't like the interface nor the complexity to set it
up--so I sent it back). 

I have a similar problem since my three stations are on the
Ohio River in West Virginia, & we need to see alerts for
both the Ohio counties and the West Virginia counties in our
listening area. In addition, the second SAGE will feed two
different stations, so under the state plan it monitors two
different primary relays.  Both are in WV, though.

The Sage unit is relatively easy to program, just so long as
you DON'T read their manual (which is heavy on programming
through the front panel when you really need to use their
software program). When you set up the events to be
monitored, and the actions to take, you specify which
counties are to be monitored for each event.  So you can
direct the unit to monitor just for one state's RMT, but
then could direct the unit to monitor counties in both
states for the typical emergency alerts such as tornado,
thunderstorm etc.

This is how I set up my active unit, so far no problem
getting either RMT's (except they arrive too late to be
relayed)or weather/emergency alerts.  Then again, most NWS
events aimed at my Ohio metro county also cover my three WV
metro counties. 

On the Sage, there are three possible CAP sites that can be
programmed in, so if you have separate CAP servers in State
A and B, as well as the national CAP server it would appear
that it could poll all three for message traffic.

I'm sure Harold Price will chime in & elaborate.