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[Dave Kline]

Thanks Harold.

As usual, I got which tones do what, mixed up. :-)

I read your other comments about what the regs require as far as the two-tone signal.
I agree that more clarification from the fed is in order. 
It is somewhat like the issue surrounding the meaning of "immediate".

I'm sure it will all get fixed in the part 11 re-write. ;-P

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Dave Kline 
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On Oct 3, 2017, at 9:59 AM, Harold Price wrote:

>Dave,

>The Sage ENDEC strips out the first detected occurrence of the attention signal, but does not require the tone to be there (or to last for eight seconds).

>We do this by turning on the recorder at the end of the second valid header, and restarting it at the end of the third header (if present), and restarting it again at the end of the attention signal (if any).

>Harold

>At 10:42 AM 10/3/2017, Dave Kline wrote:
>>Don't some, if not all EAS boxes, sense the end of a two tone attention signal to trigger the start of recording the announcement?

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>>On Oct 2, 2017, at 9:50 PM, Botterell, Arthur at CalOES wrote:

>>>Here's another thing... right now every time we activate EAS we have to go through many seconds of tones and data bursts, which make the interruption that much more obnoxious.  Might it make sense to seek a rules change to eliminate the two-tone part, which no longer has any technical function I'm aware of?   Maybe not on the first alert sounding, but thereafter when there are updates?

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