[EAS] Yesterday's CAP RWT

[Don Heppelmann]

So if I understand correctly, the request is for FEMA to originate an ADR alert to advise everyone, (those that have their CAP decoder filter set to decode and display/email it), that there will be an upcoming RWT alert, correct? For some reason, this is not making sense to me. What is the RWT used for again? It is a TEST. It's required to be sent by EAS participants and logged once, and that's it. Why is this such a big deal for end users? If FEMA wanted to send a RWT every hour on the hour, granted this example is a bit excessive, but so what. The decoder logger will log it and that's it. There is no need for the end user to attach or log it in their EAS paper logs.

If anyone is relaying or forwarding any incoming RWT to back-up their RWT originating weekly requirement they had better re-read Part 11 again. That is not going to cut it with the EB.

IPAWS is a background alert service over the internet, and the IPAWS CAP originated RWT should be a simple test that gets originated and decoded with no impact to the public.

Don Heppelmann
MN SECC

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

I don't always agree with Mike, but in this case he is 100% on the right track about use of the ADR EAS code.

I join with Mike and others to request that FEMA look at originating ADR's to alert the EAS client community about test issues.

As mentioned in past postings, this will solve the problem of posting this information on a number of EAS email lists. No one is going to subscribe to them all, but all EAS clients will see ADR's in their box logs. ADR's can be a constructive aid to help them manage their EAS boxes.

Richard
BWWG Core Member
CA SECC Vice Chair