[EAS] Timelimit

Jake. Wi. crazy_19 at live.com
Tue Sep 10 19:07:00 CDT 2013


> At one time, our station (and others in the state) had the attention
> tone filtering turned off. Some EAS messages are relayed over several
> hops, for example, an AMBER alert originating at a statewide entry
> point. If you begin with a 1:45 length AMBER message, then add in all
> the 8-second attention tones that are prefixed by each relay station,
> pretty soon the total message length exceeds what will fit into the
> 2-minute buffer. Message truncation likely results for those stations at
> the end of the chain.

My understanding is that stations only rebroadcast the audio part of a message and encode their own headings/tones so wouldent the message stay at 1:45.

...JakeWi...



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