[EAS] EAS monitoring sources

[Mike McCarthy]

Phil,

Read my post completely. Testing and non-life threatening watch and
advisory messages not sent by a federal agency do not meet the urgency
threshold outlined below for relay from a non-federal service.

Without the ability to relay tests from all sources and not just the feds
as well as to carry advisory and watch level messages, EAS on Part 97 to
support local operations is simply not suitable or sustainable under the
current rules.

Now if a given Part 97 station wishes to originate an EAS message of any
type (from say an EOC), that IS perfectly permissible. It it would also be
perfectly permissible to transcribe any message as well. The Part 97
station simply can not relay a non-immediate hazard message from a non
federal agency.

If you can't do that, what is the point of involving EAS in local
operations?  At least until the rules permit such testing and lower levels
message in addition to the life-safety immediacy threshold.

MM

On Fri, August 26, 2016 7:48 pm, Phil Johnson wrote:
>"Nothing is going to change until the FCC makes is specifically legal to
carry EAS messaging as relays through Part 97 stations from Part 90
origination..."

Wrong.