[EAS] CA Fires/EAS Activation

[Dave Kline]

There is a major divide between "can" and will. Think Grand Canyon.

Raise your hand if you could walk up to your EAS unit right now and originate an alert from scratch.
Most of you. Good!

Raise your hand if anyone else (not in engineering) at any of your stations could walk up to the EAS box and originate an alert from scratch.
Thought so.

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Dave Kline
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On Oct 17, 2017, at 6:00 PM, Suzanne Goucher wrote:

>Actually, under the rules, Broadcasters can originate messages, since each licensee is the final arbiter of what goes out over his/her airwaves - First Amendment and all.  It doesn't happen often - see the Guam tsunami of a few years back, when the local broadcast station issued an alert because officials refused to act - but it's an important fall-back in case other dissemination channels have failed.

>--Suzanne Goucher

>>On Oct 17, 2017, at 12:06 PM, Clay Freinwald <k7cr at blarg.net> wrote:

>>Message origination
>>only comes from a government entity.

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