[EAS] [] Daisy Chain

[Mike McCarthy]

I echo Rod's comments entirely except for one. The older EAS boxes are 
for the most part 15 years old. With CAP and IPAWS now the preferred 
main distribution point for wide dissemination messaging, everyone 
should be investing in CAP and the related computing technology which 
makes it much simpler to disseminate voice messages.

The fact is old EAS boxes should go to cooperating hams for placement on 
their repeaters to relay NWS messages.

Media is only one piece of the pie these days.And media's reputation at 
the local level is certainly varied of course. Some areas they get along 
with EMA folks and life is good. Others...well not so well.  It's a 
delicate balance between being a chum friend to the EMA IC or PIO and an 
adversary looking for a/the story of the week.  National media doesn't 
care about local reputations and their "journalistic standards" are 
quite different. They're on site for a couple days and then off to the 
next big story likely to never return. They're all about the hype and 
many times incorrectly report some aspect of the story. BTDT on the 
event/story side of the line.

I'm curious as to which county you consult....

MM

On 10/17/2012 3:45 AM, Rod Simon wrote:
> Adrienne
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> I was just about ready to blast you for a previous comment about showing up at a command post but you redeemed yourself with this post.  Media belongs in the JIC not the JOC and if you don't know what those are take the class Adrienne recommended.
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> Having worked in disaster response and do consulting for emergency management agencies,  for longer than I've been involved in broadcasting I have a different viewpoint. I would believe that  most broadcasters including many that serve on state or local EAS committees don't have a clue about emergency management. In fact from some of the postings on several boards the broadcasters attitude is we have EAS and we are God bow down to us.
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> One way I can think of is if you live in an area that the county's EM has a license to broadcast on a frequency that is monitored by the LP's is to donate your old EAS units (if you still have them) to them, then take the next step and offer to set it up for them. They then have the ability to originate any messages they are authorize to do.  They may never use it but that's how you build relationships.
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> Rod Simon
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> PS if you have a sage unit your looking to get rid of I could use one for a back-up EOC for a county i do some work for.
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