[EAS] Blue Alerts Are Back

[Richard_Rudman]

Art is correct but I would add the words "redundant" and "bloated" to "ambiguous" and "confused" to describe what has happened to the EAS Event Code List over time. 

The only added code I continue to defend is the AMBER CAE, but mainly for an unforeseen consequence of exposing flaws in EAS propagation so we can fix them, and that the CAE code has demonstrably helped to safely recover some abducted children.

The inability so far of our government to work with us to sunset legacy EAS leaves us largely at the mercy of a crippled-from-birth legacy EAS that is hobbled by pre-programmed visual messages, and far too much poor audio.

All that said, because of the voluntary nature of local/state EAS, the only EAS code we have to relay is the EAN.

No training required for that.

Richard Rudman

> <Arthur.Botterell at CalOES.ca.gov> wrote:
> 
> the SAME Event Code list has been allowed, through a series of well-intentioned but tunnel-visioned add-ons over many years, to be inherently ambiguous and confused.