[EAS] 2019 EAS National Periodic Test -- The Good. The Bad. The Ugly.

[Mike McCarthy]

There is a solution for this already in place...enforce the rule on
minimum modulation levels of the EAS/EBS tones. I have found the older
processors with slower limiting and gating set points are better than the
present day digital boxes which clamp down on steady non-dynamic audio.

This is why it is so important to have a loop available for EAS and PPM
just before the final final brick wall limiter. And even better, a closure
on them to fix the limiter to a certain amount of reduction so the EAS/EBS
tones and message can be set to modulate 70% or greater and reduce
cascading daisy chain artifacts.

MM

On Thu, August 22, 2019 12:25 pm, Sean Donelan wrote:
> A question for EAS box vendors -- Can the EAS Attention Tone removal
> process be improved? Or better guidance for configuring the audio chain and
> transmitter's processor for the attention tone allowing clean detection of
> the attention tone? Obviously, every station will configure their audio
> processor for regular programming and paying advertisors, not EAS.
>