[EAS] Was NPR Cue Channel Distorted?

Mike McCarthy towers at mre.com
Wed Nov 16 11:09:15 CST 2011


One PEP station had their FEMA circuit duplex turned on and that's the 
duplicate tone heard from their box sending the EAN.  There was a lot of 
cross talk and poor nulling as well.  This is from someone in the know.

MM

On 11/16/2011 8:46 AM, Dave Kline wrote:
> More questions than answers...
>
> Did FEMA somehow originate at least two EAN's at the same time from different sources?
> Would this account for some "usable audio" vs totally unusable?
> Could it also account for the multiple data burst heard throughout the test audio?
> Did they have endec # 1 sending an alert and endec # 2 listening to # 1?
> And also then endec # 2 sending an alert and endec # 1 listening to # 2 and all happening at the same time?
> Or at least was the originating endec listening to itself?
>
> Inquiring minds...
>
> Dave
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> On Nov 15, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Skinner, Jim wrote:
>



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