[EAS] CAP Stuff

[Lowell Kiesow]

Our experience in WA shows that stations will be getting a lot more EAS traffic once CAP is in place.  For example, even though my station is in Tacoma, my box receives every test and alert sent via CAP in the WHOLE STATE.  There are no more natural terrain boundries that RF distribution had.  That means the EAS box needs to have very flexible message filtering options.  How it logs messages is critical, too.  The more "simple minded" EAS box with a CAP add-on device is going to be a total pain just in terms of going through paper tape for the volume of message traffic you'll get.  That's why the new units don't use printers for logging.  Also, does it make sense to band-aid onto a box that is pushing 15 years old?  I don't think that most stations going the route of the CAP add-on will be happy with that decision in the long run.

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Jim McKinnon <jmckinnon at cbs7.com> wrote:
>I agree with Clay. We have had a DASDEC online for six months and its great
>running two separate video streams using Evertz keyers for our TV crawls. I
>purchased it to replace our TFT 911, which was having issues and not much
>tech support. We recently purchased five radio station (1 AM & 4 FM), which
>have either Gorman or Burk units, and the Burks are no longer supported. Our
>engineering staff has proposed getting a CAP converter to feed the existing
>units, but it is not assured that the FCC is going to accept the external
>converter unit to meet the requirements.

>Jim McKinnon

>Director of Engineering

>KOSA-TV CBS 7/MY TV 16

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