[EAS] Radio World: Fallout Over False Alert Continues

[Randall Miller]

Just read the article.
Appears to be some confusion. Maybe it's on my part.

In one paragraph, the author states "The commission in a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking this summer clarified that once released, an EAN alert must be transmitted immediately regardless of the time in the JJJHHMM "time of transmission" string of the EAS header."

Then in the following paragraph, states "According to people familiar with the transmission, the header string contained a date stamp of Nov. 9, associated with that test three years ago. When received on Oct. 24 of 2014, this caused some EAS boxes to think it was seeing a current alert because EAS messages do not include a year in the time stamp; it is not part of the EAS protocol."

Besides the fact that the FCC says that EAN's must be transmitted immediately regardless of the (Julian date/time), why would "some" people think the tests were forwarded because the EAS boxes thought they were seeing a current alert? What EAS box would equate the Nov 9 and Oct 24 dates, regardless of the year?

Randall Miller
KOBI-TV Engineering
Medford, Oregon
(541)779-5555 | rmiller at kobi5.com 

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From: Adrienne Abbott

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