[EAS] EAN redux - FEMA

[Dave Kline]

Thanks for the follow up Sean.

I was thinking about the ramifications of an EAN gone rogue, and how I would handle it from a technical standpoint.

My station is a State Relay. In addition to just us, there are downstream impacts to consider. The stations that monitor us cover about half the state's population plus a relatively large population area in an adjoining state.

I've been in communication with station management and the chief operator about some of the "what-if's." Your cool headed approach, as well as those of others here are very helpful in adding perspective to a scenario that offers little perspective.

I can't imagine things getting to that point. But on Wednesday morning I couldn't have imagined a violent breach of our nation's capital.  

On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 5:39 PM Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:

>Technically, FEMA has never defined how a streaming EAN via CAP/IPAWS
>would work. One of those things on the todo list.  The EAS manufacturers
>made some assumptions, but ?????

>Greater than 2 minute EAN is still via legacy PEP/satellite.

>An EAN with less than two-minute limit would work via CAP/IPAWS.

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Dave Kline - Solder Jockey
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