[EAS] National Periodic Test

[Harold Price]

Bill,

This is the same issue as was encountered last year.  The FCC rules 
in 11.51 require immediate relay of EAN and NPT.  Sage, and others, 
have asked to FCC to rule on if delays are permitted in this case, 
Sage has asked that a technical committee determine the proper 
methods and timeouts to look for a CAP message (on a variety of CAP 
servers or one-way transmission methods), among other issues.

In the meantime, immediate is immediate, and Sage therefore doesn't 
currently offer a method of delaying alerts received from one source 
in favor looking for, or waiting for, alerts from a different source.

Based on FEMA's recommend poll time of 30 seconds and header length 
of a typical message, you'd expect to see a 50% chance of seeing one 
or the other, which is close to what was actually seen in the 2016 test.

Harold

At 06:40 PM 9/27/2017, Bill Croghan wrote:
>         I have 9 Sage units.  4 received the IPAWS, 4 received the 
> PEP and 1 received the LP2 (It's on an HD2 located on a mountain 
> top).  I suspect that the PEP's came in while the IPAWS was being 
> polled for those 4 and the mountain top has a slightly slower date link.
>         I'd like to know how to delay the non IPAWS ones slightly 
> do my Hispanic stations could pick up the Spanish language off 
> IPAWS if it's there.
>
>Bill Croghan
>Lotus Las Vegas
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: EAS [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Daren McMullin
>
>I have 5 Sage Endecs programmed identically.
>Two of them received the NPT from CAP.
>Three of them received the NPT from the local LP1 (AM radio station).
>
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