[EAS] CAP EAS Logging Question

[Dave Kline]

Hi Adrienne,

I'm not sure I totally follow what you're asking.

If the RWT is originated for "all of Nevada", then I would expect decoders set with at least one county in Nevada to respond.
However, if the RWT is tagged only for counties in a local area, then the decoders that only have those counties in their local area should respond.
And you addressed this.

So is harold saying that since it is a CAP RWT, that it acts differently that the same alert that is not CAP?
If that is the case do I infer that CAP alerts work differently than legacy alerts in how the decoders recognize an area?
For instance, an RWT originated as CAP and set to only be for Clark County, would be decoded as even if the decoding station's local area does not include either Clark County or all of Nevada? Or a Clark County only CAP RWT would be decoded in a station that only was set to decode Humboldt County? And just because they are in the sam state?

I would expect that if the RWT is originated for counties A,B,C and D, and if a decoder is set for only for A,B,C, and D that it will ignore RWT's originated for counties E,F,G and H?

As far as documentation, I would think that if you are required to monitor the NWS office out of Las Vegas, for instance and you are receiving RWT's from, lets say, Reno NWS and Reno is not one of your monitoring assignments, then you only need to log the RWT from LV NWS and ignore the others. If you miss a CAP test from Las Vegas NWS then you need to take appropriate action.
But then you know that. And this is why I may be missing something here as it otherwise seems pretty cut and dried.
But I've found that most things make sense if you really don't think about them.

Dave
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