[EAS] EAS monitoring sources

[Dan Peek]

The weather was nice today while driving between stations in the Northwest and Adrienne called me to talk about EAS and started a brainstorm about using satellite as a source for EAS in place of at least one LP station since in places there are problems finding stations willing to participate or for others to reliably receive them. The idea which needs more development works like this:

It should use XM like technology so it doesn't require a satellite dish which could be come disoriented due to earthquake or storm. Ideally it would use frequencies that cellphones could receive so that they could become like NOAA weather radios and not dependant on the cellphone back bone. Cellphones already are aware of their locations and could automatically resolve which FIPS codes were important to their location.

Broadcasters and Cable Operators would have a box similar to Free-to-Air satellite receivers that can decode the signal to Composite A/V and Balanced Audio and possibly HDMI. Other formats can be derived using converters commonly available. These should be smart enough to only pass appropriate FIPS codes.

Each state would have at least two uplinks at widely differing locations and the Federal as well. 

I am quite sure that given an open ham radio and an old EAS box (I have several around the office) my 12 year old son could shortly drive up to a LP or SR station and generate an EAS message transmitted that would over power their monitoring sources and do another Zombie message.

I put together a diagram in the link below which I think you should be able to view.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1THkIEJt77jNlpuS3hfdERJS0U/view?usp=sharing

Dan Peek, Engineer
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