[EAS] Making a better alerting system

[Mike McCarthy]

>From a broadcasters perspective, two things happen.

1) That means longer headers as the subdivisions get added. So for a
message covering the southern third of a single county for example, there
would be three location codes where now there is only one.

For the wonky way the NWS issues it's warning polygons, what are a few
counties now could be 10 or more subdivisions as they're each read off. 
The voice message would go on for ever. Even under the proposed broadcast
friendly message. Same thing with other agencies who would issue a message
for either a series of county subdivisions or multiple counties and
subdivisions. Simply long long messages....

2) A warning message interrupting programming is still an interruption no
matter the number of counties or sub-divisions. The shorter the
interruption, the better it is for everyone. The listening public for the
most knows where they are in a county they live or work.
Visitors...well...if they too hear an alert message, one would think they
would ask if they're in the warned area.

MM

On Wed, July 26, 2017 3:43 pm, Dave Kline wrote:
> Since the beginning, EAS can parse counties into nine sectors.
> It may not be perfect, but how would we know it wouldn't be an improvement
> if it isn't being used widely?
>
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> Dave Kline   UNO-TV/Mav Radio/KVNO