[EAS] Joplin

[Dave Kline]

Thanks Clay,

I too would rather not have to be given a laundry list of "required"  
alerts.
It's best if those things can be worked out in a non-mandatory manner.
It seems that most stations around here take these responsibilities  
seriously.
My station is a state relay and we immediately auto forward TOR's &  
CAE's.
In addition, the commercial stations do a good job of covering wx (or  
news), updates & breaking.
For the most part EAS works pretty well around here and again that is  
because we all take it seriously.
There seems to be a good relationship with EM's in general but I think  
this could be better.
My experience is that they know of EAS but have not put a lot of  
energy into understanding how it best serves them.
We have been making headway in that area. We have a new state EAS  
chair who is working well with the EM community.
I have also offered to be a resource to our local county EM if he has  
questions about EAS.

I've always felt that most of the "problems" with EAS were not  
technical, but in how the people used it.
Hopefully we will find CAP to be a good fit as well.
I trust that some of the issues like using the public internet will  
eventually migrate to more robust delivery systems.
Once we all learn how it works, then we can find ways to make it better.
But it al boils down to people making the best of what we have to work  
with.

Dave

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Dave Kline   UNO-TV / KVNO
University of Nebraska at Omaha
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Voice 402-554-2516   Fax 402-554-2440
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On May 24, 2011, at 5:37 PM, Clay Freinwald wrote:

> In Response to -
>
> Is there anything that prevents state plans from requiring TOR for us
> in TOR land other appropriate alerts depending on the area as being
> mandatory?
>
> No Dave there is nothing that would prevent a state from wanting to
> do that....However, I believe that the state cannot require a  
> broadcaster
> to do something that is contrary to FCC rules.
>
> You hit upon a very sensitive subject for me....I have long felt that
> one of the major problems with the EAS is that broadcasters can,
> and many have, elected to not air important EAS messages.   This
> has hurt EAS significantly.   If you were an emergency manager,
> you have come to learn that the EAS is something that, perhaps,
> you can not count on to get your message out.   This is the basis
> of the whole GMC thing.
>
> Hopefully this will all get sorted out to the benefit of all.
>
> Clay Freinwald
>
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