[EAS] National test won't be shown on AT&T U-verse?

[Kluger, Michael]

Unfortunately, not all EAS units provide the EAN buffering feature that Harold described.  When our EAS unit auto-forwarded the test, after transmitting the SOM and attention signal, it joined the unbuffered incoming audio in progress, upcutting the portion that had gone by while the SOM and attention signal were being sent.  As a result, our audio started with "...a nationwide live code test", but we lost "This is a test of the Emergency Alert System.  This is only a test.  "The message you are hearing is part of".

Michael Kluger

Director of Broadcast Operations and Information Technology, WNYE-TV & FM

NYC Mayor's Office of Media & Entertainment

718-250-5808

mkluger at media.nyc.gov

-----Original Message-----
From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Harold Price

Sean,

You mentioned "ENDEC" and daisy-chain in your message, so let me

address this from the point of view of the Sage ENDEC, and broadcast

stations that make up the daisy-chain.

This is not the way the Sage ENDECs work.  We don't join the program

already in progress.  We record from the start of the alert, and

begin the playback from that record point, using the record buffer as

a delay line, playing back the alert while it is still coming in.

Each listener to a Sage ENDEC output will hear the complete alert as

it was heard at that Sage ENDEC's input.  If all the links in the

chain do the same thing, every listener will hear every word spoken

as part of the alert.  Your local station might start the alert 40

seconds later than some other station, listeners to that station will

hear the entire alert.

<snip>

Harold