[EAS] Should the RWT EAS Code be abolished?

[Barry Mishkind]

At 10:50 AM 11/24/2011, Jim McKinnon wrote:
>RWTs and RMTs although being a pain are necessary, if only to test your own 
>system, or to make sure the local LP-1 has not had their EAS box go 
>scrambled again for the second or third time in nine months.

        RMTs/regional tests are useful.
        RWTs have no validity in most cases.

        Assume for a moment that your station was
        going to fire a local EAS alert.  Would
        you wait for the automation to do it    
        at the next scheduled time? No, it would
        be initiated immediately - if there were
        anyone at home.

        Local origination worked, more or less,
        for EBS, as the stations were staffed. Now,
        NWS is capable, as are many EMs, in most
        areas. One of the big errors in EAS was not 
        accommodating the industry's changes.