[EAS] Sufolk Co, NY EAS mishap

[Lucero, Mark]

Ed,
My understanding is that "FCC Required Text" is for the text to speech, not for the text crawl. The county said they heard zero complaints about the text to speech, it was complaints about the text crawl that they received.

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Mark Lucero, CISSP
Chief, IPAWS Engineering
FEMA National Continuity Programs
202-646-1386 (w)
202-257-1364 (bb)
mark.lucero at fema.dhs.gov
ipaws at fema.dhs.gov
 

From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net on behalf of Ed Czarnecki

Thank you Mark for the clarifications!

I'm still curious about displays from video providers that may have only
included the EAS header and <instruction> information, and not the content
from the <description> element. 

I don't see much ambiguity here, but would very much like to identify if
there is one. 

The FCC requires a its Required Text (a sentence formed with Originator,
Event, Location and the valid time period of the EAS message constructed
from the EAS header info", plus the expanded text of the CAP message.  The
FCC refers back to the EAS-CAP implementation guidelines on this.  The
EAS-CAP group guidance on this is pretty clear (sec 3.6.4):  The outline of
the alert text construction is the standard FCC required header text,
followed by the text of the CAP <description> element; then followed by the
text of the CAP <instruction> element.  Up to a max of 1800 characters.

-----Original Message-----
From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On
Behalf Of Lucero, Mark

All,
I've been following the discussion here and there is some good insight mixed
in with the jokes and jabs.  We had a call with Suffolk County, their
alerting software vendor, NY DHSES, FEMA Region 2, and a few other parties
interested in deflecting blame (haha).  Here's what I learned and where I

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