[EAS] The Message

[Wayne R. Miller]

Thanks Clay...

I do know what EAS is capable of doing....because we are already doing it.  Everything you listed plus most of the event codes are voluntary!

Does CAP and all this involvement by the government indicate that they want to FORCE us to issue Amber Alerts?

My question still stands, what's the dire message we will NOT be giving the public that requires this much government and technology?

Wayne R Miller, Chairman
Illinois SECC
309-678-1297

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I continue to enjoy the debate about CAP, IPAWS, IP, Daisy Chain, UHF, VHF,
et al.

But I continue to ask my un-answered question: just exactly what is the
message government at any level will be sending?

I am amazed that all this thought and anguish is going into the medium but
none is given to just exactly what will be so important that the government
knows that we will not already be telling people?  Just exactly what
message(s)is the system being built to send?

  

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Wayne - 

This is a great question.  

> But I continue to ask my un-answered question: just exactly what is the
> message government at any level will be sending?
 
EAS is used, frequently, for the distribution of Weather, Public Safety, 
Child Abductions, Floods, Fires, Tsunami's etc etc.  Take a look at the 
present EAS Event Codes and you will gain a sense of the purpose and 
uses.

Clay Freinwald