[EAS] Lat week's missed CAP test
Mike McCarthy
towers at mre.com
Tue Oct 1 15:58:47 CDT 2013
While Part 11.21 says the NWR is a transmitter of EAS traffic, your state
and local plans define your monitoring assignments beyond the LP-1 and
LP-2. It's those which you **need** to log.
CAP/IPAWS at this point is only in confidence mode and not required to
log. Never the less, maintaining a connection to the CAP server is
required and the best way to prove that is logging the IPAWS test now. I
do expect the CAP/IPAWS RWT logging to become compulsory in the next rules
revision however. So I don't look at that as wasted or more work than
needed.
We do, however, monitor the NWS and log them as a monitored source
voluntarily. We don't track them for outages however as they're not an
assigned monitor source here.
MM
> How do you know you missed teh RWT while NWS was off the air?
> The one may not be due to the other.
>
> 11.21(a) cites NWS as a transmitter of EAS traffic (emergency, not just
> weather) to the public, an activating authority in essence.
>
> "Don't make more work than you need to..."
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