[EAS] FCC NPRM on improving EAS just issued

[Ed Czarnecki]

And:
-->  SAME/AFSK provides a survivable leg if and when IP access is disrupted,
for any number of reasons, for national, state or local EAS.

Examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MxzQcT7fLQ
http://www.zdnet.com/article/hurricane-sandy-doubled-failures-in-us-internet
-infrastructure/

Or even a site-specific outage ...

-----Original Message-----
From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net On Behalf Of Clay Freinwald

The major reasons that the SAME/AFSK system should remain are - 

> That's how PEP's output their messages.
> That's how NWS/NWR communicates with Zillions of little radios It 
> provide low-tech redundancy.