[EAS] NWS CAP server

[Sean Donelan]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2022, Dave Turnmire wrote:
> I'm wondering if I'm the only one who thinks having a NOAA Weather CAP server 
> suitable for use with our EAS decoders would be useful.

Commercial weather news systems, i.e. the systems used by news broadcast 
weathercasters, interface with NOAA weatherwire.  They use the full text 
feed from NOAA/NWS, including the metadata, graphics, etc.  I'm more 
familar with the TV versions, but I think companies sell radio versions 
too.

EAS boxes are a poor broadcaster's version.  Around 2012, there was a NWS 
EAS/CAP feed, but as you point out it didn't work that well.  If you 
compare the price of commercial weather news systems versus EAS boxes, 
there is a reason.

If NOAA/NWS was going to do something for EAS broadcasters, I'd suggest a 
subset its CAP feed, e.g. creating specially formatted WEA weather warning 
messages for EAS broadcasters rather than the full CAP NWS feed.  99% of 
the CAP NWS feed doesn't make sense for EAS broadcast.

NOAA/NWS already creates WEA parameters, so it would just be a "little" 
more work (:-)) in software to add some special EAS parameters for those 
warning messages.