[EAS] General Question: Can't it be a software solution?

[Tom Taggart]

Advantage of the separate switchers (one EAS control two
stations--it's rigged to manually run separate RWT's if
needed, but otherwise is on autopilot)--is that I can easily
pull the EAS for repair without disrupting the program line
and--if there is a messed up test.

Why continue with 15 year old equipment?  Because whatever I
buy comes out of my pocket, and there are other things I
need to get that are more important than this stupid stuff. 

As long as I get weather warnings & the tests that's all I
expect it to do. But...why should the filtering be different
with CAP? Heck, the present system uses codes that evolved
from the old weather wire system out of the 60's--which
could be coded, too, so as not to run the teletype all the
time. Saw that at WJW-TV back in 1970.

So there would be no reason for the CAP adapter/decoder
combo to churn out everything it hears. Only the message
traffic for the counties selected for that decoder.