[EAS] Any state using TV for EAS daisy-chain distribution

[Tim Stoffel]

Maybe you have the same Director of Engineering we had at WXXI AM/FM/TV
back in the days when EAS first came about. His orders to us were to
build the cheapest EAS implementation we possibly could, and if it was
hard to use, so be it. (We were also non participating, the only
station I know of that had this status.) That meant one EAS box. There
was no reasoning with Him about this. So, we were running three very
different stations off of one EAS box. It worked, but it was far from
optimal.

Tim Stoffel

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From: tpt at sevenrangesradio.com

Ohio does.  They feed EAS including CAP through the state's public TV
microwave system.  The local relays use a special receiver to pick up a
digital signal from the TV station.
Digital Alert Systems made a special decoder or whatever for the system
(First time I saw one was at the local relay --they were having a
variety of problems including with their EAS box, trying to feed AM, FM
and AM's translator. Couldn't figure out why they didn't use the second
"EAS decoder" for one station and their Sage for the other.)