[EAS] National EAS test comments

[Harold Price]

Streaming audio EANs is, of course, what CAP will provide.

The legacy EAS system is what could be used if the internet and the 
traditional broadcast networks are down, perhaps if asteroid 2005 
YU55 had been 202k miles to the left.

NWS wasn't involved primarily because they aren't designed to carry 
"live" audio with no time limit distributed from a central 
point.  Some NWS stations in some parts of the country have EAS 
devices at the transmitter site and are part of the local relay 
network, but that is local - the full up NOAA transmission network is 
what was unable to participate, at least this time.

Harold

At 09:35 PM 11/9/2011, Gregory Muir wrote:
>This idea of relaying alerts is a little archaic.  In an age where 
>any station around the world is on your computer, why can't 
>Washington simply set up a streaming arrangement and have everybody 
>monitoring it?  But, then , why wasn't the NWS involved in this 
>test?  Interagency bureaucracy or just plain politics?