[EAS] EAS Alerts in Tagish Yukon Canada

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Hi All,
Today our station(s) up here participated in semi monthly testing of Canada's alerting system, supplied by The Weather Network (Pelmorex)  The alerts are distributed by TCP socket feeds on conventional internet, as well as on C Band and (2) KU Band satellite transponders.  Our regulator, CRTC made it mandatory that ALL broadcasters, as condition of licence participate in the NPAS. Broadcasters are responsible for the costs of equipment to carry the EAS feeds that are provided free of charges.

Our commercial station, CFET 106.7 FM uses a home grown open source CAP client (built on x.1303) to relay unattended these broadcast intrusive alerts. 

Canada is a bilingual country with alerts issued in both English and French.    The issuing organization has the option of including attachments, such as WAV and JPG.  If these multimedia files are not included, or arrive corrupted then our box falls back to using a local bilingual TTS engine to "read" out the alert description.  Today's alerts were issued and transmitted as high quality Wav files with JPG attachments.

I must say your EAS list is a very interesting resource to learn about your collective experience in the US broadcast industry and the challenges of emergency broadcasting.

If any of you folks are up this way, shoot me a telegram and we'll get together for some fireweed tea and smoked moose nose sandwiches :-)

TTUL

Rob

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Robert G. Hopkins

Radio Enthusiast

Box 87, Tagish, Yukon, Y0B1TO, Canada

Office: 867-667-6397

www.openbroadcaster.pro/rob-hopkins

http://support.openbroadcaster.pro

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[Sep 21 2016 22:22:26 UTC] [debug] received alert E47BEB83-2DBC-28E3-B13C-87FC63794303 (2016-09-21T15:22:12-07:00)
[Sep 21 2016 22:22:47 UTC] [alerts] playing active alerts (1 alert(s) to play)
[Sep 21 2016 22:22:48 UTC] [player] now playing track ?: unknown - unknown (id: 0 file: duration: 1s type: 'break' source: alerts)
[Sep 21 2016 22:22:49 UTC] [player] now playing track ?: Emergency Alert - E47BEB83-2DBC-28E3-B13C-87FC63794303 (id: 0 file: canadian-attention-signal.mp3 duration: 8s type: 'audio' source: alerts)
[Sep 21 2016 22:22:49 UTC] [player] now playing track ?: Emergency Alert - E47BEB83-2DBC-28E3-B13C-87FC63794303 (id: 0 file: 2016_09_21T15_22_12_07_00IE47BEB83_2DBC_28E3_B13C_87FC63794303-english.jpg duration: 27.061s type: 'image' source: alerts)
[Sep 21 2016 22:22:49 UTC] [debug] audio-playbin: unpatching visual
[Sep 21 2016 22:22:49 UTC] [player] resuming track at 0.23053359985351562 seconds.
[Sep 21 2016 22:22:49 UTC] [debug] image-pipeline: patching visual
[Sep 21 2016 22:22:57 UTC] [player] now playing track ?: Emergency Alert - E47BEB83-2DBC-28E3-B13C-87FC63794303 (id: 0 file: 2016_09_21T15_22_12_07_00IE47BEB83_2DBC_28E3_B13C_87FC63794303-english.wav duration: 27.061s type: 'audio' source: alerts)
[Sep 21 2016 22:22:57 UTC] [player] resuming track at 0.08440732955932617 seconds.
[Sep 21 2016 22:23:24 UTC] [player] now playing track ?: Emergency Alert - E47BEB83-2DBC-28E3-B13C-87FC63794303 (id: 0 file: 2016_09_21T15_22_12_07_00IE47BEB83_2DBC_28E3_B13C_87FC63794303-french.wav duration: 28.732s type: 'audio' source: alerts)
[Sep 21 2016 22:23:24 UTC] [debug] audio-playbin: patching visual
[Sep 21 2016 22:23:24 UTC] [player] resuming track at 0.03544425964355469 seconds.
[Sep 21 2016 22:23:24 UTC] [player] now playing track ?: Emergency Alert - E47BEB83-2DBC-28E3-B13C-87FC63794303 (id: 0 file: 2016_09_21T15_22_12_07_00IE47BEB83_2DBC_28E3_B13C_87FC63794303-french.jpg duration: 28.732s type: 'image' source: alerts)
[Sep 21 2016 22:23:24 UTC] [debug] audio-playbin: unpatching visual
[Sep 21 2016 22:23:24 UTC] [player] resuming track at 0.18688106536865234 seconds.
[Sep 21 2016 22:23:53 UTC] [player] now playing track 6: Peter Splinter Group Green - Cool Down (id: 85847 file: 85847-Peter_Splinter_Group_Green-Cool_Down.mp3 duration: 257.332s type: 'audio' source: scheduler)