[EAS] Daisy Chain

[Reginald Swedberg]

Clay,

I agree with you, but it seems not very many people in our area do.  The local emergency management has left the impression at meeting they do not like EAS in any form, do not want to improve it, and do not plan on every using it.  The only reason to come to the meetings is they had to.  Past history has shown this out, also.  If the is an emergency announcement it seems they refuse to issue an EAS.  Hard to push uphill from the end of the chain.

Redgy

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Clay Freinwald <k7cr at blarg.net> wrote:
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>Responding to Redgy's comment -

>What about places that are still using a daisy chain system.  Our station
>still gets everything through an LP1 so if they do not forward, we do not
>get it.

>This is an area where - WE - can make improvements to the EAS without
>waiting for some government entity.    The decision to funnel all EAS
>messages for an area through an LP1 is a - local decision ... one that can
>be reversed.    This is, normally, the work of the SECC and/or LECC.   If
>they have not tackled this issue and moved to a system that is more reliable
>than the 'weakest link'  (aka Daisy Chain) system...perhaps it's time they
>did.

>Clay Freinwald
>SECC Chair, Washington State