[EAS] IPAWS EAS Feed unscheduled outage 0825-0922 EDT

[Lowell Kiesow]

Ray,

Your concerns were thoroughly discussed and explanations given, but not in this forum.  There is an email list specifically for Washington state EAS business.  I suggest you sign up for it, and then you will be in the know about things like this.  The link is
http://sea.sbe16.org/mailman/options/eas-wa

The cause was simple human error.  An experienced, county, emergency manager was practicing with the MyStateUSA interface and intended to select DMO, which is adjacent to CEM in the menu.  He accidently clicked on the wrong one.  MyState is adding a pop-up to warn of using a live event code, which should help reduce such occurrences. 

The Washington SECC recognizes that training our government alert originators for CAP is critical.  It is something we are starting to work on.  The effort is done by volunteers.  Want to help?  We can use all we can get.

As for your last comment, ALL monthly tests are originated from government agencies in Washington.  It alternates state, local, local, state, along with an annual one from the NWS.  We've been doing it that way since 1997, when it was written into the state plan.

At 07:14 AM 3/20/2013, you wrote:
>KWDK received and forwarded a CEM on the 14th of March.
>It received the Civil EMERGENCY Message from MYSTATE.

>Ray Dall
>Radio Frequency Engineer

        Lowell Kiesow, Senior Engineer
        KPLU 88.5, KVIX, KPLI, KPLK
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