[EAS] CAP Polling Interval Questions

Tom Spencer Radiofreetom at gmail.com
Wed May 11 08:48:31 CDT 2011


The ideal situation is:

NWS issues TOR

TOR sent directly to local CAP devices - no aggregator involved at all.

Note that in the time it takes the CAP to decode and generate the audio, 
the legacy EAS would already be halfway through the actual warning message.

Alex Hartman wrote:

> After answering my own question with a bit of research on IPAWS, i see
> the whole system is designed backwards. Entirely backwards.
>   

> To the point of EAS sticking around, yes, i see that as well, but
> given time, just like all things, it will too be phased out in favor
> of the new system, 90% of american reach is unacceptable to me, when
> the current system reaches 100%. This seems to be a solution waiting
> for a problem honestly.

-- 
Tom Spencer



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