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

[Walter R. Fletcher]

Al,

The production people are planning to come out of the :18 minute
newsbreak, give a heads-up announcement, then resume programming
and simply let the NPT interruption occur when it may, and don't fuss.

All bona fide EAS activations happen under similar circumstances so
I'm not really sure of the benefit of going to heroic lengths to adapt
programming.

We broadcast throughout the entire state  so we simply let the FIPS
codes do as intended.  For 30+ signals, it's the only practical behavior.
Our RMT and RWTs don't cause any problems due to this.  I hear from
them when they miss a test.  The NPT will be heard by a number of
stations that have us as a monitoring source.

__Reid__

On 9/23/2016 2:52 PM, Kenyon, Alfred wrote:
>While we plan to originate the NPT test message at precisely 14:20 EDT on the 29th it will be very difficult, if not impossible to determine precisely when your EAS device will be ready to forward the message. That's because each EAS device polls the IPAWS EAS Atom Feed independently on the average of once every thirty seconds. If your box polls IPAWS immediately after we post the NPT message it could be available as soon as 14:20:17 if not slightly sooner. On the other hand if you happen to poll immediately