[EAS] new legislative activity on EAS/WEA

[Dave Kline]

How would repeats work?

Announce the same message twice between one set of duck farts?
Non EAN alerts will get cut off after two minutes (or whatever you set your cutoff time to.)
Possibly less information would be contained within an alert that had to be repeated.

Or create two separate full alerts for each event?
That will go over big with management.
In a world where stations are already relaying "too many" EAS alerts, that will just make stations drop more of the voluntary alerts.

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Dave Kline 
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On Jul 24, 2018, at 9:30 PM, Ed Czarnecki wrote:

>Section 7 would require the FCC to do a rulemaking to modify EAS to repeat
>EAS messages "while an alert remains pending" - not just for national
>alerts, but for "any other entity under specified circumstances as
>determined by the Commission, in consultation with the Administrator".