[EAS] New EAS Forum posting on Intermediary Devices

[Marlin Jackson]

Clay can chime in too and "snow-challenged" may be an understatement. As a broadcaster in Eastern Washington the CAP system has several advantages including TTS. There are 19 counties in Washington that an activate a statewide or local alert. Many are isolated counties. Each and every county can securely access the MyStateUSA web site, type in the alert and hit send. Our audio is always clean and the correct level. Most counties wouldn't be able to do that otherwise.
 
As for the question "why would LP-1 stations continue to voluntarily translate CAP to EAS/SAME formatted messages". In the Washington State plan the entire legacy system will remain in place as a backup system. Our LP-1 AM is monitored by 26 stations and our FM by 74 stations. We would want listeners of all 7 of our stations to hear the alerts anyway.

 
Marlin Jackson, CSTE
Assistant Chief Engineer
RF Systems
KXLY Broadcast Group
500 W Boone
Spokane, WA 99201
marlinj at kxly.com
509-329-4908
 
>>> Richard Rudman <rar01 at me.com> 1/23/2012 7:39 AM >>>
Actual goals include but are not limited to getting warning details in video crawls so the hearing impaired community can benefit more than the "canned" SAME EAS code messages. While a lot of video sources certainly do expanded warning information on their own, let's not loose sight of assuring that the best possible warning information gets on the air at 3 AM.

Clay or someone else from WA State may want to comment about the value of text-to-speech (TTS) as a needed and valuable component of CAP.

We may have to wait a while for Clay to chime in. Last I heard he is snow-challenged at the moment.

Richard

On Jan 23, 2012, at 7:18 AM, Sean Donelan wrote:

>> 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.
>
> What are the actual goals?

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