[EAS] A rogue EAN

[Dave Kline]

Richard,
That's a fine historical perspective on the need for PEP.
It also is an excellent argument in favor of such a system.
I will be the first to admit that for me, PEP stations have been on the back burner for most of the tenure of EAS.
Only when our state plan required them as an EAS source did I give it much thought.

We use the NPR Squawk channel for our PEP monitoring source. Being satellite based puts it pretty high up on the lisy of vulnerable infrastructure. We investigated AM monitoring, but the antenna requirements would never pass muster with the aesthetics committee. I am barely able to have an effective FM yagi for off-air monitoring of my own station.
The squawk channel was convenient, didn't really cost anything extra, and did not involve another "unsightly" antenna. 
Hopefully, if needed for the real thing, the alert will get through before the bird is blown out of the sky.

On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 3:49 PM Richard Rudman <rar01 at mac.com> wrote:
>I want to comment on the EAS incident thread by introducing some history. It seems the thread may be devolving to questioning why we still have Primary Entry Point (PEP).

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Dave Kline - Solder Jockey
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