[EAS] [BC] What's the point of LP-1s anymore?

[Ed Czarnecki]

I'm saying the same thing about future broadcast operations. Unattended, for all intents and purposes.  

Which is one reason why we had proposed a CAP-first or IP-first
modification to have EAS devices poll IPAWS and give preference to the CAP message.

Not IP only, but IP first.

Edward Czarnecki, Ph.D.
Senior Director - Strategic and Government Affairs
Monroe Electronics Inc. / Digital Alert Systems

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From: Botterell <Arthur.Botterell at CalOES.ca.gov>

If you say so, Ed... but more and more I'm put in mind of the "WKRP of Christmas Future" scene... nothing left but a salesman and a computer.

Personally I tend to think like Clay and the others here who think that using broadcasters as relays for state/local emergency alerts is increasingly non-viable.  And I'll go further, as I have before, and suggest that it's time for a dry-eyed reconsideration of the suitability of EAS for state/local alerting at all.

Regrettably as we saw in our recent disastrous fires, local officials seem to be voting with their feet... and I'm afraid folks like the deaf and hearing-impaired may be getting left behind in the process of that spontaneous, unplanned migration.