[EAS] Source of the "scary" text in Suffolk Co

[Sean Donelan]

On Wed, 7 Sep 2016, Ed Czarnecki wrote:
> 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.

After doing some more research, without actual on air recordings, I think 
I've figured out the "scary text" part.

The CAP message contained only the following public text fields: WEAtext, 
Sender Name and Description.  It did not contain an Instruction field.

It appears that some (how many is still unclear) video EAS participants 
broadcast a text crawl with only the FCC required header text 
(Originator, Event, Location and time period).

And other video EAS participants broadcst a text crawl with both the FCC 
required header text plus the CAP text (formatted according to ECIG).

Mobile devices displayed the WEAtext.

The system worked as designed.  But probably didn't work as the EM 
expected.