[EAS] question regarding tones

[Dave Turnmire]

On 2/21/2012 4:16 PM, Larry Wood wrote:
> The second box always generates its own two-tone alert signal when passing on an EAS alert. It is supposed to strip the originators two-tone alert signal out of the recording of the alert message. After sever attempts to get our blue Sage units to remove the originator alert tone from the recording, I finally got it to work by setting the ATTN THRESH on our Sage to 5.
>
Good to know!  I never had to worry about changing the default settings 
with the grey box (other than basic output levels).  On the other hand, 
in those days, I didn't have convenient recordings of all the received 
alerts that I could review, so it was also less likely I'd pick up on 
these issues by just looking at logs.

So... that kind of begs the question... what happens if you set the ATTN 
THRESH too low?  Does it simply pass the original tone without 
generating a new tone?  What about the voice message... does it still 
get passed... or does it get dumped in the apparent absence of an 
attention tone?

Dave