[EAS] Can we ad CAP front end to existing?

[Tom Taggart]

Randy:

That's the issue with the CAP-converters.  Supposedly they
would handle the communication to the internet for the CAP
traffic, then internally convert the text to an audio
message, add the appropriate fsk for EAS decoding, and feed
the completed message into an audio port of the existing EAS
decoder.

Questions arise about how upgradeable the final system would
be (for example--the governor's alert message--if it is a
new code how would a legacy decoder handle it?). Obviously
some units--the legacy Gorman Redlich EAS, for example,
could be field reprogrammed to handle new EAS codes; while
others may not be able to handle anything outside the
existing universe of EAS coding.