[EAS] What is a State Relay participant?

[Dave Kline]

My station is a state relay, so I can speak to how that works, at least under our state and local plans.

The hierarchy is State Primary, of which there is one. It is the flagship station for the Nebraska Educational Radio Network.
State EAS alerts originate with the S.P. and filter down thru the state relay stations which are eight, I think, NE Edu Radio stations and my station, operated independently of the NE Edu Radio network. We all get hard-wired feeds of EAS from the S.P. so no over the air daisy chain for state/national alerts. 
The LP stations around the state monitor the S.R. or the S.P. depending on location.
We monitor the S.P., NWS, the designated LP1 for our area and of course CAP/IPAWS.
The S.P., NWS, CAP/IPAWS all have alert originating authority. The S.P. does not originate anything other than RWT's.

On a local level, the originating authority for local alerts is the LP1 in our area and of course NWS for local weather events. This will expand to other authorities as our local plan fleshes out. Again the S.R. does not originate alerts. So we are somewhat in the middle of the food chain here.

Dave
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Dave Kline   UNO-TV/Mav Radio/KVNO
University of Nebraska at Omaha
6001 Dodge St. Omaha, NE  68182  CPACS 200