[EAS] How are you planning to broadcast the September 28 National EAS Test?

[Alan Alsobrook]

On 9/23/2016 4:52 PM, Kenyon, Alfred wrote:
> I do not recommend attempting to precisely back time programming to
> NPT for that reason. It will be a pretty crude cold cut to the
> "Brapp, Brapp, Brapp" anyway. That's just the way it works.

To make this test valid, I plan on doing absolutely NOTHING for the 
test. The whole idea is that the box should know what to do, if I did my 
programming correctly.

Now don't get me wrong I did update the firmware of the EAS boxes so 
they should properly react to the 00000 code. But after that, in a real 
emergency likely no one will be sitting around the box waiting to see 
when the first bubble forms (watching the pot).

So my prep for the test is update my programming, (which has been 
completed) then some time after the test should have run I'll check the 
logs and see how it went.

If it doesn't work as planned then we can see what needs to be done to 
correct things.

I guess one thing I do need to check in the next day or so, in the ENDEC 
what priority the NPT was given, and correct that as needed.

NOTE: My personal opinion, no test should ever prevent a real emergency 
from being transmitted. Thus all test priorities are set very low 
(typically 10 or less, since the RMT already has 10 I'll probably set 
the NPT to 11).

-- 
Alan Alsobrook CSRE AMD
aalso at bellsouth.net