[EAS] EAS Digest, Vol 8, Issue 17

[Harold Price]

This has been suggested (for example, by Sage, 
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7020396042, para 21).

Stations would need to add NTP to their filter set.

It is important to test, at least once, a live EAN, however.  There 
are enough several differences in how the EAN is handled so that a 
real EAN test would be very nice to have.

Testing with a test code, such as NPT, if issued through the PEP 
network, would test connectivity, but it would not test settings 
creep as stations upgrade equipment, change equipment type, or change 
their settings.  Testing with NTP (as is true for RWT and RMT) at 
some point becomes just a test of the test code.

EAN should be tested periodically, at intervals of more than a year, 
and in the other years, NTP should be used (issued via legacy PEP 
some times, and CAP/PEP in others).

Harold

At 02:41 PM 6/29/2011, Jim McKinnon wrote:
>My DASDEC II has coding inside for an "NPT" or National Periodic Test.
>Has anyone thought that maybe we should continue to test nationwide as we
>use monthly/weekly rather than an EAN, assuming we will continue testing
>nationwide after this initial test?
>
>Jim McKinnon
>
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