[EAS] EAS monitoring sources

[Dan Peek]

Tom,

You are no doubt correct, but I had time to think as I drove along yesterday. Maybe more time to think as I drive back today...

I was trying to avoid a system requiring satellite dishes. Wind and earthquakes tend to move them off course.

As for costs our roughly 3Mb video channels on satellite cost around $20k/month, but require satellite dishes. American Tower and other big conglomerates charge big money when we add a satellite dish to the site.  

I like IP input, but as has been pointed out here in the event of a disaster they will break.

Dan Peek, Engineer
Three Angels Broadcasting Network, Inc.
3391 Charley Good Road
West Frankfort, IL 62896 USA
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On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 7:37 AM, Tom Bosscher <tom at bosscher.org> wrote:
>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:
>>
>> 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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