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[Skinner, Jim]

Tom:

What you describe is how it should work (except the Mt Olympus part).
One RMT from a single source going through IPAWS, State Relays, LP-1
etc.  In Nebraska all RMTs are state-wide.  

There is some concern that the duplicate message could have slight
differences and an EAS decoder could play them both.  We are asked to
report such problems to the manufacturer, FEMA and your SECC.  Actually
this forum and state EAS forum would be a good place.

If an EAS box is receiving an RMT from CAP and legacy EAS but
broadcasting only one, that is perfect.  That is the goal. 

I have heard nothing from FEMA or the FCC of any plans for national
RMTs.  We had to encourage them to continue the CAP RWTs, those almost
were dropped.   

I would argue that on occasion delaying the legacy State EAS RMT by one
minute behind the State CAP feed might be a good test design.  That way
sometimes CAP would win the race and we could see how it sounds on the
air.  Does any state do that now? 

Nebraska is still working on a State CAP generating system. 

  -- 
Jim Skinner CPBE CBNT
Nebraska SECC Chair

 

-----Original Message-----
From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On
Behalf Of Tom Taggart

We have two stations at one studio building.  Because the two stations
are licensed to two different towns 25 miles apart, the state EAS plan,
handed down from the gods on Mt.
Olympus (that's 40 miles north of Mt. hope) decree different monitoring
assignments.

Since we have just one EAS box, we monitor two different NWS sources and
two different state relays. One of the primary relay stations has been
monitoring their statewide source off an internet stream--since an LPFM
now blocks reception of their primary station.  The other gets their
feed off-air from somewhere.

So the RMT's usually arrived several seconds apart--the off-air relay
getting priority, the second feed then is ignored.  If the rmt was sent
both by CAP/ internet and off-air, would not the same thing happen?
First in = First Out.

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