[EAS] "improving" EAS?

[Ed Czarnecki]

I'm just going to reiterate what Gary Timm just said:  The reporting requirement is PROPOSED, not ordered.  So if you have a concern, then COMMENT about it.  Not here, but to the FCC (easy as pie, on the Electronic Comment Filing System).

"The article quoted below is INCORRECT. This proposed false alert reporting is NOT part of the Order.  It is instead a PROPOSED rule in the second section of the adopted document, the Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM).

So if you oppose this proposal, please be sure to FILE COMMENTS once that window opens.  The FCC is required to base its decision on received Comments, so your time spent filing Comments DOES have an impact." 

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 10:13 AM, Eric Adler <eadler at wskg.org> wrote:
>But who am I to say that the missile alert was false?  What about alerts for possible events that then don't happen? are those 'false'?  I'm not an emergency manager.  I don't have access to all of the information that the local EOCs have.  If they issue an alert and then 'cancel' it, is that false?  It was a real alert when they sent it...

>- Eric

>On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 9:29 AM, Dave Kline <dkline at tvmail.unomaha.edu> wrote:
>>Fine print. "up to 24-hours to report... AFTER IT'S DISCOVERED."
>>So no. You wouldn't have to check the log each day.
>>You are required to review the log on a weekly basis.
>>If during that review, which most likely wouldn't happen until sometime during the following week, you discover a false alert was sent, then you have twenty-four hours from that point. Right?

>>Of course, it is quite unlikely that a false alert would go un-noticed for that long.

>>Ring Ring
>>Hello
>>Hi, this Joe over at KEAS-FM, did you just send out a missile alert?
>>OH S***!
>>Now you have twenty-four hours.

>>But yeah! I agree with you that the more crap the feds throw on the EAS pile, the more stations will back away from all but the mandatory alerts.
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>>Dave Kline
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