[EAS] Time to make the LP daisy chain an option

[Richard Rudman]

Relatively Easy Part:

FCC NPRM and Rulemaking changing Part 11 so State Committees, with input from their LECC's, can opt to do away with the LP daisy chain.

Hard Part:

Provide funding so Operational Area emergency management agencies can use VHF and UHF to get EAS events to all EAS Participants to supplement their current ability built in to IPAWS to get CAP EAS events to all their EAS Participants without using LP's.  Funds are for repeaters and VHF and UHF receivers. Frequency allocation for such repeaters should not be an issue in most cases. Any current low use public safety channel can have an EAS interrupt just like broadcasters do in our broadcast chains.

Why Bother?

Will this Part 11 change eliminate the need for all LP relays? Of course not. But the "one size fits all" LP model has not served many of us well. As long as we need to continue Legacy EAS, this will improve Legacy reliability/penetration for when the Internet inevitable becomes unreliable during major emergencies.

Richard

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>> Time for the FCC to act. 
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>       What should they do?
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