[EAS] The need for more frequent verification tests

[Gregory Muir]

+/v8APAAh-DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC +ACI--//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN+ACIAPg- +ADw-HTML+AD4APA-HEAD+AD4- +ADw-META content+AD0AIg-text/html+ADs- charset+AD0-utf-7+ACI- http-equiv+AD0-Content-Type+AD4- +ADw-META name+AD0-GENERATOR content+AD0AIg-MSHTML 8.00.6001.19154+ACIAPg- +ADw-STYLE+AD4APA-/STYLE+AD4- +ADw-/HEAD+AD4- +ADw-BODY bgColor+AD0AIw-ffffff+AD4- +ADw-DIV+AD4- +ADw-P style+AD0AIg-MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt+ACI- class+AD0-MsoNormal+AD4APA-FONT size+AD0-2 face+AD0-Tahoma+AD4-With regards to others who have expressed similar opinions annual NPTs are nice but there is far too much time between each one to see if a +IBw-fix+IB0- works.+ADw-SPAN style+AD0AIg-mso-spacerun: yes+ACIAPgAm-nbsp+ADs- +ADw-/SPAN+AD4-We have seen a couple of years pass only to find that problems still exist.+ADw-SPAN style+AD0AIg-mso-spacerun: yes+ACIAPgAm-nbsp+ADs- +ADw-/SPAN+AD4-And in this politically unstable world a lot of things can happen in between where the need for national dissemination of an alert could possibly be required.+ADw-/FONT+AD4APA-/P+AD4- +ADw-P style+AD0AIg-MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt+ACI- class+AD0-MsoNormal+AD4APA-?xml:namespace prefix +AD0- o ns +AD0- +ACI-urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office+ACI- /+AD4APA-o:p+AD4APA-FONT size+AD0-2 face+AD0-Tahoma+AD4AJg-nbsp+ADsAPA-/FONT+AD4APA-/o:p+AD4APA-/P+AD4- +ADw-P style+AD0AIg-MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt+ACI- class+AD0-MsoNormal+AD4APA-FONT size+AD0-2 face+AD0-Tahoma+AD4-It is my understanding that both Premiere and SiriusXM are both handling the alert on a voluntary basis.+ADw-SPAN style+AD0AIg-mso-spacerun: yes+ACIAPgAm-nbsp+ADs- +ADw-/SPAN+AD4-From what was gained during this past week+IBk-s test I am sure that they have had an earful about what happened.+ADw-SPAN style+AD0AIg-mso-spacerun: yes+ACIAPgAm-nbsp+ADs- +ADw-/SPAN+AD4-But beyond that if they are not recognizing the importance behind transport of this alert maybe it is time that they escalate the significance level a bit.+ADw-/FONT+AD4APA-/P+AD4- +ADw-P style+AD0AIg-MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt+ACI- class+AD0-MsoNormal+AD4APA-o:p+AD4APA-FONT size+AD0-2 face+AD0-Tahoma+AD4AJg-nbsp+ADsAPA-/FONT+AD4APA-/o:p+AD4APA-/P+AD4- +ADw-P style+AD0AIg-MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt+ACI- class+AD0-MsoNormal+AD4APA-FONT size+AD0-2 face+AD0-Tahoma+AD4-Couldn+IBk-t more frequent +IBw-pseudo+IB0- NPTs+ACY-nbsp+ADs-be performed in the fashion of a an occasional lower-level test to only be logged by the important reception points (LPs, etc) that are assigned to relay actual national alerts and NPTs to the remainder of reception points but merely log the test where an operator could review the results and ascertain if everything is functioning properly?+ADw-SPAN style+AD0AIg-mso-spacerun: yes+ACIAPgAm-nbsp+ADs- +ADw-/SPAN+AD4-Maybe this could be achieved by a new dedicated EAS event code.+ADw-SPAN style+AD0AIg-mso-spacerun: yes+ACIAPgAm-nbsp+ADs- +ADw-/SPAN+AD4-Surely the importance is there enough to add yet another code to the list.+ADw-/FONT+AD4APA-/P+AD4- +ADw-P style+AD0AIg-MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt+ACI- class+AD0-MsoNormal+AD4APA-o:p+AD4APA-FONT size+AD0-2 face+AD0-Tahoma+AD4AJg-nbsp+ADsAPA-/FONT+AD4APA-/o:p+AD4APA-/P+AD4- +ADw-P style+AD0AIg-MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt+ACI- class+AD0-MsoNormal+AD4APA-FONT size+AD0-2 face+AD0-Tahoma+AD4-Greg Muir+ADw-/FONT+AD4APA-/P+AD4- +ADw-P style+AD0AIg-MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt+ACI- class+AD0-MsoNormal+AD4APA-FONT size+AD0-2 face+AD0-Tahoma+AD4-(Hopelessly lost but making good time+ICY-)+ADw-/FONT+AD4APA-/P+AD4APA-/DIV+AD4APA-/BODY+AD4APA-/HTML+AD4-