[EAS] Request for contact info and possibly URL for State of NY CAP (NY-ALERT?)

[Dave Turnmire]

On 6/26/2013 10:55 AM, Rich Parker wrote:
> ...
> And unless something has changed recently, I don't believe NWS is providing any kind of CAP feed directly available for stations.
>
> ..
Last I checked, NWS does in fact have a CAP server.  But, when I 
experimented with it, I found the following issues:

  * They carry more alerts of a given event type than the local NWR
    transmitter does.  Not necessarily a problem, but potentially
    confusing and presumably the local office had a reason for not
    forwarding them to their transmitter
  * More significantly... and quite odd in my mind given NWR's
    experience... the CAP server feed was NOT text-to-speech friendly. 
    Symbols, abbreviations, etc.  And they didn't supply audio files, so
    you had no choice but to do text-to-speech. So... OK to use as an
    RSS feed to your Outlook, but not so good for your EAS box.

If you want to play... try the following:

  * Configure your box as appropriate for atom feeds.  That is easy on
    DASDEC or, in my limited experience, the GR boxes.  SAGE seems to
    make things less generic and more server specific, so I don't know
    which server option you would chose.
  * Point the URL at:  http://www.weather.gov/alerts/vt.atom  (for
    Vermont alerts... ny.atom for New York)

Dave