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

[Alex Hartman]

The converters i've seen on the market are costing almost as much as buying a new unit. If you have an EAS unit over 10-15 years old, uses old ribbon printers or such that it's getting hard/expensive to maintain, just bite the bullet and get a new unit. The new ones store everything digitally. It's so nice to be able to just print out what i want and attach them to the logs. No more lost ticker tapes!

My new Sage Digital ENDEC was about 2200 bucks shipped. The CAP converter for my TFT 911 was going to cost almost as much.

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Alex Hartman

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Tom Taggart <tpt at literock93r.com> wrote:
>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.

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