[EAS] New EAS Forum posting on Intermediary Devices

[Richard_Rudman]

There is a new posting on the EAS Forum highlighting the section of the BWWG's Comments filed leading up to the Fifth Report and Order released January 10.  The FCC has apparently kept alive the use of so-called "Intermediary devices" until June 30, 2015. In that section we said in part:

When a CAP message is filtered by conversion to SAME it is analogous a CAP message being run through a filter, in short, what starts out as a rich and nourishing full course dinner winds up as a strained, thin, and watery broth. The BWWG believes that every effort should be made to integrate the capabilities of CAP into all aspects of the EAS as soon as possible to eliminate the bottleneck that SAME creates.  

Please go to http://eas.radiolists.net/ to read the whole section.

The BWWG believes that the three year allowance specified in 11.51(d) is not "as soon as possible". Allowing these devices to be used for three years beyond the June 30, 2012 CAP implementation deadline is, to say the least, controversial. Allowing them to be built in the first place may have been a serious mistake. If you agree or disagree with the BWWG's position on this issue, please let us know on this list.

Richard Rudman
The BWWG