[EAS] EAS monitoring sources

[Tom Bosscher]

Dan,

I've been told by dozens of people that XM, with their sub-POTS line 
audio quality, has a channel somewhere that has the national alerts.

I proposed 10 years ago that FEMA/FCC/US Gov treat Dish TV and Direct as 
a PEP. Each of those two would allocate a music channel to be in the 
open, all the time, with the FEMA EAS box in front of its audio. Now you 
have two independent uplinks, and different satellites. Very nice 
redundancy at a very low cost.

Take a look at Michigans upper peninsula. There are 5 operational areas 
up there. How do they possibly hear any AM PEP?

With the Direct/Dish system operational, any station any where in the US 
could pick up the hardware and be listening. If they were really 
concerned, they could monitor both. A very simple system. But alas, I 
doubt a simple and redundant system could be implemented.

Tom Bosscher

On 8/25/2016 11:56 PM, Dan Peek wrote:
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> 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.
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