[EAS] Resolved- Nationwide AT&T Mobility 9-1-1 outage

[Adrienne Abbott]

Again, the problem is that WEA can only use certain Event Codes and when you
send a CAP EAS and WEA message, you are limited to only the Event Codes that
WEA accepts. When you send a CAP EAS activation, the viewer sees the entire
text of the message so it's a lot less scary than SAME where the only text
you see is "Civil Danger Warning". We are very lucky here that many of our
officials are CAP fluent but I'm not about to retrain them to send the same
message twice, once for a CAP EAS with the "TOE" Event Code and a second
time for a WEA message with the "CDW" Event Code. Common sense as well as
Common Alerting Protocol says you should be able to send both an EAS
activation and a WEA message in one operation. If you don't have access to a
CAP program, you have an entirely different set of issues. 

Adrienne Abbott
Nevada EAS Chair

-----Original Message-----
From: EAS [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Sean Donelan

On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, Botterell, Arthur at CalOES wrote:
> Using CEM also avoids "scary" text crawls on legacy EAS equipment when the
audio or IPAWS message is missing.