[EAS] Amber alerts

[Alan Kline]

Our WX radio at home is an older-style Rat Shack unit. Probably at least 
a decade old, maybe closer to 15. It does recognize SAME encoding, so it 
isn't completely ancient.

I followed up this morning by retrieving the CAE's (there were actually 
2) from our DASDEC. Audio was present with the Amber message, just as it 
should have been. Doesn't explain why the radio station my wife heard 
apparently didn't relay the audio, but that's their issue, not mine.

My only remaining concern, then, is why the 1050Hz tone was apparently 
absent from the CAE issued by our local NWS forecast office. Our ops 
manager is informally following up with our state association. (BTW, the 
local NWS issued a RWT this morning, and all was normal--EAS headers, 
1050 tone, audio message, EAS EOM...)

ak

On 6/4/2013 11:02 PM, David Turnmire wrote:
> I don't have much experience with the weather radios as the nearest NWR
> transmitter is too far away for effective reception here.  But I would
> think one question would be whether the radio you were using was just a
> traditional weather radio or if it was an "all hazards" radio that new
> how to decode the data bursts.  I would think in the latter case, it
> shouldn't matter whether the 1050 Hz tone was present.
>
> Still, I wasn't aware a special version of SAGE firmware would allow for
> the 1050 Hz generation.  I'll have to look into that issue, as I'm not
> sure whether the SAGEs used by NOAA in my state have that firmware.  I
> suspect they have the "standard" firmware.  And I don't know what
> policies NOAA may have regarding when the 1050 Hz tone should be sent.
>
> Dave
>
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