[EAS] EAS Digest, Vol 84, Issue 31

[Paul Campbell]

This little nugget here is why I feel like my LP-1 station should ultimately just be a relay point (for things other than RWT/RMT). If something big and local
goes down around here, it's probably going to be EMnet that finds its way in first. Besides, we've only got one revolving  person at the helm here on the 
weekends anyway, and their first reaction to ANYTHING is to just call me, so there's no way they can be trusted to originate an alert that's going to take
over the entire market. I shudder to imagine all the hate-email I'd get when it got screwed up, not to mention the liability for the station. There was a time 
many years ago when I would've clinged to a sliver of hope that I could train everyone to handle this type of thing, which I suppose was my impetus to 
meet with all of my local EOC managers when I did, but that's just gone. Gone.

PC

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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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