[EAS] DIRS

[Gary Timm]

Broadcasters & Cable Operators,
To re-iterate Richard's statement - DIRS is a GOOD thing.
FCC set up DIRS because it WANTS to help your operation stay running.
So please take the few minutes it requires each day to report your DIRS status.
If you are off the air or running out of resources (like generator fuel), FCC will work with FEMA to help keep you running - DIRS is a GOOD thing.
However, you will not get emails from DIRS, cannot participate, and will not receive federal assistance should you need it if you have not signed up on the DIRS site - see URL provided by Richard below.
This is not a federal burden, it is a federal offer to help get you up and running when you're dead in the water (literally, this time).
Gary Timm

--- On Mon, 10/29/12, Richard Rudman <rar01 at mac.com> wrote:

>From: Richard Rudman <rar01 at mac.com>

>DIRS is the disaster reporting system set up by the FCC after Katrina.

>http://transition.fcc.gov/pshs/services/cip/dirs/dirs.html

>DIRS stands for Disaster Information Reporting System. The site has a button so communications providers, broadcasters and others, can report problems and status. After Katrina, DIRS was set up to help with communications infrastructure damage assessment to help restore the communications infrastructure after
>damage.

>Quoting from the DIRS website:

>DIRS is a voluntary, web-based system that communications companies, including wireless, wireline, broadcast, and cable providers, can use to report communications infrastructure status and situational awareness information during times of crisis.
>If you are not already signed up, you should do so. If you are not in the line of fire for the immediate East Coast weather emergency, you will be impacted by some type of other serious emergency in the future where it might help.

>CAP is centered on getting warnings to broadcast and other entry points -- not for pulling information from them.

>Short answer: DIRS is a good thing!

>Richard