[EAS] immediately

[Harold Price]

Yes, Sage added an auto filter feature to the 89-30 release, to help 
make sure that as many stations as possible aired the alert, even if 
they accidentally had NPT in the wrong filter, or had it marked log 
only, or didn't have a filter at all.  I believe this contributed to 
yesterday's high relay rate.

Since, for most stations, the "right" setting for NPT action is 
Automatic Relay, that is what our internal filter was set to.  For 
some special cases, as Dave points out, timed relay is a better choice.

For a future release, we will implement an "ignore auto filter" 
feature.  If marked as ignore, only the user's explicitly defined 
filters will be used.  The Verify Req button will show which filter 
(if any) will match NPT and EAN.  Our recommendation will be to NOT 
check  the "ignore auto filter" box.

The "better audio from CAP" issue will also be addressed if the FCC 
moves to a "check for CAP first" scheme.  The various attempts to 
improve the chances of getting a CAP message first will then be unnecessary.

Harold

At 05:09 PM 9/28/2016, Dave Turnmire wrote:

>Slightly off topic, but one of the side effects of the updated SAGE
>software was to apparently break our state's system for favoring CAP
>alerts over our backup RF based State Relay Network.  We had configured
>a one minute delay on the SRN to give people time to get the CAP alert.
>If for whatever reason they didn't get the CAP alert (Internet issues,
>whatever), then after that short delay, they'd still get the SRN
>version.  But... with the new SAGE software, NPT (in addition to EAN),
>must now be sent "immediately"...  a number of LPs received... and
>aired... the SRN version first.  And the audio was much nicer on the CAP
>version....
>
>Dave