[EAS] The best public alerting quality experience

Sean Donelan sean at donelan.com
Wed Oct 19 15:30:43 CDT 2016


While working on a letter to the FCC about last month's National Periodic 
Test, I looked at recordings by people on youtube of the NPT on various 
radio and television stations.  There was some variability in the public 
alerting experience.

Youtuber's tend to post the funny and the failures. On Youtube HD 
recordings, EAS sounds like bad iPhone recordings and looks like the 
cheapest NTSC character generators from the 1980s over a black screen. 
I assume EAS participants fall into a bell curve, with most in the 
middle, some at the bottom and some at the top.

Does anyone have examples of the very best, real-world EAS public alerting 
experience?  Modern background graphics, clear and readable alert text, 
and quality audio.  Youtubers have created fake EAS alerts, but I want to 
point to what actual EAS participants are capable of doing with 2016 
technology.

So far the most interesting on-screen alerting graphics I found was from 
WPTZ-TV, although it the audio problem from the last national test.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqhjXcu9DNc



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