[EAS] Voluntary Local EAS Carriage: Can We All Take Two Steps Forward?

[Richard_Rudman]

Hi Dave and all-

The core message about probability and risk assessment I was trying to communicate is probably more familiar to the EM community is than to us.

The entire decision making process as to which codes become the low hanging fruit to entice more broadcasters to volunteer should be a local partnership based negotiation, I will do so here.  Sorry if I was not clear enough on that point.

For instance, I know one OA where all the TV stations feel that AMBER is not something they want to carry. The radio stations do carry AMBER. 

And, that's OK. 

If an EM local community and those local entities subject to Part 11 can only agree on one "we agree", that's one more than we have now.

Issues having to do with local NWS offices flooding EAS with repeated warnings about the same event, and too frequent "update weather warnings" turned a lot of people off to carrying all of NWS NWR's EAS warnings right after EAS was launched in 1997. That can be fixed through the partnership negotiation process in most cases. Problem is, there are simply just too few of those effective partnerships right now.

The BWWG and other EAS Stakeholders will try to get the word out. We will not succeed everywhere, but progress in this arena can be made -- even if it has to measured in millimeters.

Richard

On Feb 15, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Dave Turnmire wrote:

> The fact that it is "high risk" is why it is worth interrupting our air 
> space in the first place.  Am I missing something in your reasoning?