[EAS] Yesterday's CAP RWT

[Mike McCarthy]

This is so completely out of the norm that I'm not sure how to address
this any further. I can't imagine the NWS would make such a rare
exception. NWR radios are all sold on the universal premise they unmute on
reception of SAME encoded messages. Including the mid-week test typically
sent at 11AM local time.

How do you know they're not sending them?  Do you also monitor the NWS
radio with a plain consumer receiver/decoder?  If you do and the consumer
radio alerts on watch and warning issuance, then the NWS is sending and
your equipment is not decoding them for whatever reason.

Also, do you have good signal?  Poor signal also corrupts the SAME data
stream.

MM

> Well, I'm not intimately familiar with NWS practices outside of East
> Idaho.  I have never known the details of what they are doing in this
> regard and my primary contact in their local office isn't particularly
> familiar with the technology issues.  All I know is that we definitively
> are not receiving SAME encoded Watches here... with the exception of the
> occasional Avalanche Watch (the only permissible Watch alert in our
> state plan).  Perhaps they simply use their 1050 Hz tone and don't use
> the SAME encoding for those particular alerts.