[EAS] ETRS Reporting

[Dave Kline]

Nail on the head, in my opinion Alan.

This test is not so much about how stations across the country will handle the alert.
It is more about the Fed wanting to be able to demonstrate that they can ingest an alert into the system that will propagate nationwide.
Which is something, that to date, they have not been able to do.
Remember how much they tried to spin the 2011 national test into being a "success."
It is also the first use of the ETRS system and they recommend the reporting time windows to avoid it crashing, which if it happens will cause an uproar just like what happened with the failed audio in the 2011 test.
They have done everything they can do to make themselves look good, and nothing to make this easy for broadcasters.

We need to put the EASy back into EAS.
 
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Dave Kline   UNO-TV/Mav Radio/KVNO
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On Sep 27, 2016, at 6:12 AM, Alan Alsobrook wrote:

>Even if the test works the reporting will likely cause a national
>disaster.

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>Alan Alsobrook CSRE AMD
>aalso at bellsouth.net