[EAS] New Posting on the EAS Forum

[Dale Lamm]

[snip]

Hence, some broadcasters have, outside of the assignments indicated in
the state plan have failed over our signal for meeting EAS monitoring
assignments as required by part 11 because of difficulties getting
signals from elsewhere.

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All this talk about PEP's raises a question in my mind. In my state, the
PEPs are two 50 KW AM broadcast stations. However, the state EMA's first
point of contact in the EAS chain is a powerful FM station in the state
capitol. Our plan allows for messages injected at that point to ripple
outwards to all EAS participants. That path gets tested twice a year via
a statewide test.

It would seem that problems monitoring a PEP for national messages would
have been addressed by the requirement to monitor FEMA's server.

So, when someone speaks of issues hearing a PEP, is this in relationship
to receiving messages originated only at a national level, or a state
level?

Dale Lamm
WHBC AM-FM