[EAS] No such thing as too much compression

[Bill Ruck]

At 08:12 PM 11/25/2011, you wrote:
>At 08:05 PM 11/25/2011, Mike McCarthy wrote:
> >It's 30 years too late.  Especially with many processors still at the
> >TX's and no real means to convey real time closures ***to*** the
> >transmitter.  No station is going to want an investment to freeze the
> >processor for down stream stations.  Non-starter. Dead on arrival.  That
> >train will never steam on.
>
>         *that's* exactly the attitude that has
>         brought EAS to the difficult place
>         where it is ...
>
>         Yes, it might be late.
>
>         But it sure wouldn't hurt for broadcasters
>         to take more control of what they do.

In the Great State of California on the very Left Coast the audio 
that the state provides has at least 100 dB of compression with a 
noise-to-signal ratio of dB's.  And on a good day only slightly clipped.

There appears to be no audiophiles in the radio shop.

Or people that know how to set levels on carrier.

Bill Ruck
Curmudgeon
NCFCC