[EAS] Best and Worst of New CAP EAS Rules

[Ed Czarnecki]

Let's step back for a little while and see what happens yet.  The FCC is
aware of the issue, and of the potential impact on IPAWS OPEN.  We could
possibly see a corrective rulemaking from the Commission even before public
comments (petitions for clarification or reconsideration) are received on
the issue.

I encourage folks to actually read the report and order.  The FCC appears to
allow TTS when created at the point of origination (the EOC, NOAA, etc...).
The FCC would prohibit TTS conversion remotely - at the edge within the CAP
EAS device, for a variety of reasons stated in the report.  I suspect they
will revisit this prohibition.

Edward Czarnecki, Ph.D. 
Senior Director – Strategy, Development & Regulatory Affairs  |  Monroe
Electronics Inc.  |  Digital Alert Systems
email ed.czarnecki at monroe-electronics.com | www.monroe-electronics.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On
Behalf Of 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. 

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