[EAS] NPT at KKNU

[Gary Glaenzer]

Under current rules, no

Unless and until the rules of the game are changed to make the CAP feed the 
MANDATORY re-transmitted message, and until the equipment makers provide 
software to allow the CAP message to take priority, either by interrupting 
an outgoing message from a secondary source, or forcing a hold-off of 
secondary sources for XX seconds to wait for a CAP message, we are wasting 
our time with the 'who was first' dust-up.

UNDER CURRENT RULES............

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clay Freinwald" <k7cr at blarg.net>

> Gary -
>
> Very important for a couple of reasons -
>
> 1- If a participant relays the CAP Feed, it will likely be of better audio
> quality.
> This was the primary driver behind Washington State setting up it's own 
> CAP
> Server a number of years ago.
>
> 2- Multilingual - We, like a lot of states, have a large number of
> non-English speaker.   Pretty hard to address them with an emergency 
> message
> using legacy/SAME based EAS.    Our State wants to get these messages in
> Spanish so that Spanish formatted broadcasters can air them.
>
> That help?
>
> Clay
>
> Is it really THAT important which one 'won the race' ?
>
> I find this entire blow-up about the subject to be a Tempest in a Tea Cup.
>
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