[EAS] 'improving' EAS

[Clay Freinwald]

Richard wrote - 

[[ I would only add this: Is it too late to turn this around? ]]

May I submit that the very worst thing we could do is to stay silent as this
means that you accept and endorse.

What's needed is to do what others do when they know they have been
done-wrong.

Make a huge STINK about it !!

History has proven that those that lay down and play dead at times like
these - never win...Doing nothing must not be an option.    

One of the foundation items with FEMA/IPAWS says something about every
available means....And so it should be this time.

Star with the organizations have already have the ears and/or connections -
NAB and NASBA ...Encourage your State Association to help.

Don't overlook Emergency Management and the National Weather Service - 

The fewer EAS Participant - The less effective the system is.   These
regulators need to have this fact thrown in their face at every
opportunity!!
They need to know that 'potentially' lives can be lost due to their
misguided policies.

SECC's should be on this band-wagon - In lock step!

So should the SBE ( provided they are not afraid of being involved )

Don't forget going to the Feds on your own

Thanks Adrienne and Richard for your comments.   Hopefully this will not be
ignored
But be a call to action.

Clay Freinwald

-----Original Message-----
From: EAS [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Richard Rudman

I want to underscore and emphatically agree with all the points made by one
of the most knowledgeable and respected SECC Chairs in the country, namely
Adrienne, especially for me as illustrated by the pull quote below.

I have client and non-client EAS Participants asking me what to do when
message flooding takes over their airwaves and what to do about, as Adrienne
states it so well, "...an ever-growing workload of federal requirements,
additional paperwork, new Event Codes and now an almost undecipherable and
contrary Order."

Opting out of voluntary relay of non-required EAS events is the path some
have already chosen, and I predict more will follow. 

The road to the Common Alerting Protocol and eventually IPAWS was built
around a public-private partnership effort called the Partnership for Public
Warning. 

At what point did we lose the concept of Partnership in what was and should
always be a concerted effort to improve overall public alert and warning to
save lives and property for a public at risk?

To again quote Adrienne, "Anyone? Anyone???"

I would only add this: Is it too late to turn this around?

Richard Rudman
CA SECC Vice Chair 

>On Jul 14, 2018, at 2:32 PM, Adrienne Abbott <nevadaeas at charter.net> wrote:

>"At the same time, the stations which only carry the required tests have
none of this burden and they're beginning to look like the smart ones."

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