[EAS] concerning the request for new weather Event Codes

Mike McCarthy towers at mre.com
Sat Jul 9 11:26:15 CDT 2016


The classic two tones are the public's door bell to pay attention.  So in
a word, yes, they are still relevant. Maybe not in 5, let alone 15 years
going forward however.

MM

On Fri, July 8, 2016 12:10 am, Botterell, Arthur at CalOES wrote:
  As you rightly remind us, the two-tone Attention Signal
> still had a technical rationale fifteen years ago... I'm just suggesting
> that it might be time to check back and see if it's still necessary to
> play eight seconds of it before every alert.



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