[EAS] The need for more frequent verification tests

[Richard Rudman]

Adrienne makes a great point here, and I support setting up a way to do weekly non-propagated tests for links that have been talked about in this thread so the next national test will show improvement. 

I will comment that IMO analog AM should be kept around TFN as part of what I call our "last ditch" scenario rather than the term some have used, "doomsday" because we really do have to be prepared for impairment to satellite delivered EAS provided by NPR, Serius XM, and others.

At some point in the near future I would also like to see the FCC, FEMA and all of the state and territorial emergency management organizations discuss with us "EAS Participants"...

1.  ...what our "evolving" public/private public warning partnership should look like

2. ...if there can be a concerted effort to get all EAS-related hardware and software certified at some agreed-to level as far as capabilities and human interface are concerned.

3....if dollars, time and effort can be found for a an ongoing effective CAP IPAWS warning origination training an recertification program for all warning center personnel.

4. ...if an effective public campaign to let the public know what to expect from the public emergency warning system can be devised.

5. ...how our Federal partners are going to manage the national level effort going forward to support us to the greatest extent they can regarding local, regional, state warning issues.

Should what I am proposing be kicked off by in-person Summit, on-line Zoom meetings, or farmed out to a future CSRIC sub groups, or am I asking for too much/too late?  Food for thought, everybody?

I am not yet willing to give up on trying to make this work. Are you?

Richard Rudman
CA SECC Chair
BWWG Core Member

On Aug 18, 2021, at 10:28 AM, Adrienne Abbott nevadaeas at charter.net wrote:

If it comes down to a National-level EAS activation, the "Doomsday Scenario"
of an EMP or nuclear missile attack, most radio and TV stations will be off
the air, along with all the other noise generators which currently pollute
the radio-sphere. The propagation of the PEP signals from their unstaffed,
hermetically-sealed, automated 10 KW AM transmitters will probably be pretty
clean.