[EAS] Event Code TOE Question

[Sean Donelan]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2019, Richard_Rudman wrote:
> 1. Is the TOE code included in your published local EAS Plan? If not, 
> there may have been a thoughtful decision process that may have come to 
> the conclusion that such an emergency is adequately covered by several 
> existing EAS codes that most likely are in your local published Plan.

The California State EAS Plan is a little muddled about which EAS events 
should be carried by participants.  I.e, are EAS "emergency" event codes 
like TOE considered part of the Warning category or the Advisory/Watch 
category? NOAA/NWS puts the "emergency" codes in a separate catagory from 
warning/watch/advisory.

https://www.caloes.ca.gov/WarningCenterSite/Documents/StateofCaliforniaEAS-Plan.pdf

"Codes must be WS WRSAME compatible. EAS messages for Watch, Statement,
Administrative or Advisory events should NOT be relayed. Warnings or 
Required Monthly Tests should be relayed."

The San Francisco CA local area plan (including Marin County) explicitly 
lists TOE as one of the event codes carried by participants. In practice, 
when I lived in the San Francisco area, very few broadcasters in the San 
Francisco region carried any EAS beyond the FCC mandatory alerts.

https://www.caloes.ca.gov/WarningCenterSite/Documents/04-SF%20Bay%20Comp-Public.pdf