[EAS] NWS on IPAWS

[Gary Timm]

Jim,
I asked Mike Gerber at NWS if the RMT that is originated in alternating months by the 5 NWS offices serving Wisconsin would appear on the IPAWS CAP Feed once NWS was launched on that feed, and he told me no they won't.  (I kind of wish the RMT was passed on, as it would give TV stations a way to be sure they are displaying the enhanced CAP text as the rules require and as Leonard Charles just referred to earlier.)  I presume then that RWTs will not be forwarded on the EAS CAP Feed either.
Gary Timm
WI SECC

--- On Tue, 7/3/12, Skinner, Jim <jskinner at kxvo.com> wrote:

>From: Skinner, Jim <jskinner at kxvo.com>

>Brain Trust:

>As I understand it all local NWS alerts will be converted nationally
>into the IPAWS system some day.  They are already doing it with high
>priority CMAS for cell phones (as of last week).  I do not know of a
>launch date for NWS/EAS to IPAWS.

>Does anyone know if the NWS weekly tests will be passed through IPAWS?
>Since those are local will every broadcast station and cable system in
>the USA be covered by a NWS RWT?

>  --
>Jim Skinner CPBE CBNT
>Nebraska EAS SECC Chair

>-----Adrienne Abbott wrote -----
>Even with CAP technology Part 11 still requires us to conduct weekly
>tests. NWS conducts weekly tests. The least the Feds can do for the
>first year of CAP, is to run weekly tests....

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