[EAS] An idea for the montly test

[Tom Taggart]

Just talking to the chief at our monitoring assignment (and
primary relay for this area).

A monthly test by FEMA will only work if the state wide
plans are fixed first...

THEN the national plan for feeding the PEP's will need major
repairs.

He has to monitor a Charleston (WV) station for his
statewide feed.  Originally was a Class B at the PEP complex
down in Charleston--but their signal wasn't reliable enough.
 He switched to another Class B FM station in that
cluster--but it was adjacent to a local Class A, so that
station wouldn't work. Then he settled on a third Class B in
Charleston, though owned by a different company. That worked
for a while, until a local LPFM moved into town and changed
channel to the upper adjacent.  He has a fourth choice, but
that station will have a Class A on an upper adjacent
sometime this year or next. The out appears to be a
statewide network--once they roll out their XDS receivers. 
At present they are using Comstreams with three program
channels that have to be manually switched (so he can't
leave one channel on all the time for alert feeds).

Now to the great news for next week's test: The PEP's
monitoring assignment is WLW, Cincinnati.  With a local 680
with 10kw daytime in the same city. 

Oh-Kay....