[EAS] Humans thwart disaster alerts - - URL

Harold Price hprice at sagealertingsystems.com
Tue Oct 3 13:53:47 CDT 2017


And, for completeness, you can set how long you want the outbound 
attention tone to be (including zero).  You can even decide to omit 
the EAS headers and EOM, sending only the audio and text crawl, but 
that takes us out of the realm of Part 11 completely.

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:
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> >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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