[EAS] CMAS delay?

[Lowell Kiesow]

EAS and CMAS are two, completely independent systems.  It probably took someone a half hour to figure out how to send it to CMAS the first time.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Alex Hartman <goober at goobe.net> wrote:
>We just had an AMBER alert go off here in MN for an 8 month old. The
>AMBER alert hit my sage box 26 minutes before my cell phone got it.

>Where's the delay coming from? 1/2 an hour is quite a bit of time in
>terms of these alerts. I hope they aren't that bad for other things.

>Happy ending though, kid was found within 10 minutes of the alert. The
>system does work, just massive delay in dissemination.

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>Alex Hartman

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Lowell Kiesow, Senior Engineer
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