[EAS] National Weather Service Message Flooding

[Otto, Ken]

R D S only works on R D S equipped radios. And it only works within a certain distance from the transmitter since this subcarrier is not sent at the same amplitude as the primary modulation of the fm transmission (the L+R mono signal).

If I am driving from Saint Louis, MO after renting a car from the airport listening to my favorite station I am loosing the RDS signal before I lose the stereo signal from that station. Then I would lose Emergency Alerts if we discontinued the very reliable existing EAS system which works in the main audio.

Experience based on a trip from St. Louis, MO to Quincy, IL.

Ken

Kenneth Otto
Broadcast Operations Engineer
WEFS-TV
Cocoa, FL<x-apple-data-detectors://0/0>