[EAS] No EAN?

[Adrienne Abbott]

Back up the truck, Jim...What do you mean IPAWS can't handle an EAN? There
was a lot of talk this time last year about holding the National EAS test
after CAP came on line because then all stations would receive the test. All
this time I, and probably a lot of other people, thought that IPAWS would be
able to handle an EAN. Tell me more because apparently the National Test
showed that PEP/NPR system did not perform as expected. That means in spite
of the Internet, cell phones, satellite radio and TV and all the other
goodies of modern technology, we still don't have an adequate national
warning system, much less an adequate local warning system.

Adrienne Abbott
Nevada EAS Chair
"Radio burps, it cries, it needs to be fed all the time, it requires
constant attention, but we love it." Jim Aaron WGLN 

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

The fact is that a required national alert will NOT come from the President
through IPAWS. If our EAS equipment has been ready to broadcast an EAN from
the PEP/NPR system is IPAWS really an outage in the Federal sense?  Unless
IPAWS is your primary connection from the assigned PEP.  Do we follow the
letter of the law or the spirit of the rules?

Also I don't believe CAP connection alarms are required since some EAS
equipment do not have it.  So are stations and cable required to log only if
their equipment has the feature?  What if the connection logging or alarm is
disabled, are we breaking the rules?  

On the other hand Adrienne I agree it is a good idea to document outages.  I
am just asking what is the real purpose with the present capabilities of the
IPAWS.  

Scratching my head as usual

  --
Jim Skinner CPBE CBNT
Nebraska SECC Chair