[EAS] Should the RWT EAS Code be abolished?

[Ed Czarnecki]

At the SCTE cable expo, I heard several anecdotes where the self-generated
RWT served useful purposes in testing and configuring systems (both existing
and newly installed) downstream from the EAS units.  This helped some cable
operators prep for the national EAS test.  

One size may not fit all.  Even if RWTs may not serve a purpose for - say -
radio, they may be a useful tool for in environments with more involved
downstream systems, like CATV/IPTV plants.

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

        
        

  

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