[EAS] CAP EAS Logging Question

[Clay Freinwald]

In this day and age with EAS Equipment connected to a variety of sources
with some of those having the characteristics of a giant 'party line' it's
almost impossible, if not impractical, to log everything.     Usually I
recommend that a station log what they have their 'filters' set for, which
are (in most cases) their assigned sources  or monitoring assignments.
There are cases when a station might now have their filters set correctly -
or - where they are the recipient of a boat-load of weather messages etc.

We need to get past the thinking that you need to log, or otherwise take
some external action, everything an EAS Decoder receives.

If I were an FCC or ABIP inspector - I'd want to know that the unit I was
inspecting was indeed receiving messages from their assigned sources ...and,
more specifically, they were receiving RWT's and RMT's from them

Clay Freinwald
Washington State

-----Original Message-----
From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On
Behalf Of Mike McCarthy

As I recall, the rules allow for filtering of the message for reaction.
Once can then forward or remain idle.  But not to completely ignore as if
the message was never there. So it boils down to who ever you are monitoring
as to what they choose to send as to what ends up in your received box.

This is how I recall the system was intended as an ongoing confidence test
beyond the regular test messages and is the reason the FCC allows the use of
real messages for weekly tests in place of the RWT.

In the world of CAP, I can see how one big pipeline with no discretion to
location can clutter things since CAP is a much larger buss. It is there
where the regionalizing filters need to be placed.  But how does one go
about creating such filter?

MM

> But I get alerts for counties that are not in my local area programmed 
> on my SAGE.
> Usually it amounts to a bunch of Thunderstorm watches and warnings 
> which I do not want to receive nor are they relayed.
> When it elevates to a TOR then our box goes into action and does a relay.
> But the other alerts are unwanted, and not included in my local area, 
> but SAGE thinks I need to receive them anyway.

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