[EAS] Canada's New "EAS" Now Online

Harold Price hprice at sagealertingsystems.com
Wed Apr 8 15:58:22 CDT 2015


The tone sounds nothing like the US tone - the Canadian tone consists 
of two blocks, alternating at .5sec for 8 seconds, each block has 
three different frequencies in the mix.

As to your second question - please step away from the law-making machinery.

Harold

At 04:04 PM 4/8/2015, Dale Lamm wrote:
>I was not able to play the alerting tone. No idea if it matches the 
>USA two-tone attention signal. Assuming the Canadian tone is 
>different, should the FCC make it an offence to broadcast this tone 
>stateside? Many Canadians watch USA television. We're both ATSC.



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