[EAS] Best and Worst of New CAP EAS Rules

[Tom Taggart]

"FCC prohibits text-to-voice" conversion?"

So, in other words, there was no real point in my spending
$2K for two boxes?

Let's cut through the crap. NWS is what we need EAS for 99%
of the time. The other 1% is to keep the FCC goons off our
back. NWS is used to sending text to their system to be
converted into voice by "perfect Paul."  NWS is not going to
have someone cut a voice message--convert it to an MP3--and
attach it to the CAP message.

And having "Enhanced Text" on a TV crawl doesn't do much
good if there is a storm approaching & you are driving 70
miles an hour on the freeway towards it.
Had that problem in the past with Pittsburgh NWS kicking the
tones but not sending any voice message over their stations.

I assume my Sage units have some means to do text to voice,
haven't seen any way to test it.  But I assumed that was the
point of the system.  As long as it is close to the same
quality as the NWS that would be a start. Since these are
computers, that can always be upgraded.

We have our share of weird Indian names in both Ohio and WV.
Tom Brokaw talki9ng about "KEN-awa county (charleston) comes
to mind. Then there's Ashtabula and Conneaut, which are not
ASH-TAB-ula or CON-Ute. But if the message gets out that
there is a tornado going that way that's irrelevant. The
folks in ASH-ta-beaulah and Connie-Ought will get the
message. 

This is beginning to smell like another Beltway screw-up.