[EAS] California WEA

[Ted Langdell]

Hmmm. Never received any Covid alerts on my cellular devices, 40 north of Sacramento, where my community's single hospital is out of ICU beds. 

Have not observed any Covid alerts via EAS, either. 

Ted

Ted Langdell
Secretary, Co-founder
Yuba-Sutter Community Media, Inc.
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Ted at Yuba-SutterCommunityMedia.org 
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>On Dec 9, 2020, at 10:10 AM, Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 9 Dec 2020, Adrienne Abbott wrote:
>>California officials gave local officials a heads up about the WEA on the latest COVID lockdown. The statewide WEA is being called "the largest WEA message ever issued". Even with the tenth of a mile limit, the WEA showed up in Nevada.

>Just a reminder, in spite of the press releases from the FCC chairman, the WEA tenth of a mile geo-location only works in NEW/recent cellular phones and messages which include it.

>Old phones (i.e. most cell phones) still use tower-based alerting.  Just because an alerting authority draws a pretty line on their computer, doesn't mean devices in the field use it.

>Device-based Geo-Targeting.  Notice its called "device-based."

>Sorry, I know its not you.  But the FCC press releases have mis-lead a lot of emergency officials.

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