[EAS] National Test

[Kluger, Michael]

Harold,

Are you certain that this is true on the TFT units?  When I had spoken to TFT about my concern that the national test was going to exceed the two minute limit,  they suggested that I increase the maximum record time for a message (which can be changed in the setup menu).  This led me to believe that at least on the TFT, the EAN is subject to the time limit.

To give a little context, I had originally asked TFT whether it was possible to configure the EAS-911 so that EANs would immediately auto-forward, even if the unit was in manual mode.  (My goal was to be able to have EANs forward immediately upon receipt while retaining the ability to control exactly when we forward other messages, such as RMTs).  TFT's reply was that the auto-forward was a global setting, and that there is no way to have some message types auto forward while others manual forward.  This led me to ask them if I was correct that this would cause a problem if an operator waited more than two minutes to forward an EAN, since that would result in only the first two minutes of the EAN being stored for retransmission.  The reply was to suggest that I increase the message time limit, which can be set to be up to 15 minutes long.  I am assuming (perhaps incorrectly) that I would not have gotten this reply if EAN messages were not subject to the programmed time limit on the EAS-911.

Mike

Michael Kluger

Director of Broadcast Operations & Information Technology, WNYE-TV & FM

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mkluger at media.nyc.gov

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-----Original Message-----
From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Harold Price

The EAN is a special case, it does not have a two minute limit.  It

has no limit at all.

Harold

At 09:18 PM 6/9/2011, Randall Miller wrote:

>Our TFT EAS911 units have 2 minute (maximum) alert message windows. If they

>don't receive the EOM, they'll automatically terminate recording the message

>at 2 minutes. Unless other makes of EAS decoders don't have a similar

>feature, I'm not sure a RWT 5 minutes later would help.

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