[EAS] Overlap/monitoring issue

[David Turnmire]

I must say I'm surprised by this.  It was my understanding that the SAGE 
(and other boxes) would "queue" incoming alerts, rather than have one 
trash another... or ignore the second.   I believe some decoders had a 
hardware limit of how many simultaneous alerts they could gracefully 
accommodate (seems like I heard one box was limited to two simultaneous 
alerts).  Having one alert interrupt another alert already in process 
seems to me to be a faulty design.

Also, I can understand hardware limitations for the number of 
simultaneous alerts received via RF/audio sources, but I wonder whether 
there is a practical limit on the number of incoming CAP alerts.  I 
would think that could easily be handled in software. Probably a moot 
point because I suspect there are few stations monitoring more than a 
couple CAP servers, though briefly for awhile I was monitoring three.

Perhaps Harold and the other decoder manufacturers monitoring this list 
could comment on the above issues.

Dave