[SBE] EAS CAP

[Richard Rudman]

As Clay Freinwald and others including myself have said for some time,  
the public internet should not be the only way stations get CAP  
messages.

Some of you may be familiar with the Local Relay Network (LRN) concept  
as is practiced in Washington State. Radio links act as wireless  
multipoint distribution systems from warning centers to all EAS  
broadcast entry points.

The existing LP relay network perpetuates the daisy chain we all  
thought we said good-by to when we left EBS. Getting EAS messages from  
warning centers to al broadcast entry points simultaneously. My  
personal take (having served as an LECC Chair and still serving as the  
Vice-Chair for the California SECC) is that depending on an LP-1  
creates a link in the warning chain that, if broken, will make it  
highly unlikely (if not impossible) that any stations monitoring that  
LP1 will get the message.

NWS/ NOAA Weather Radio has stepped in to effectively create LRN's  
already in some areas. I believe if local civil warning centers link  
up with NOAA weather radio and themselves license and operate LRN's,  
we can create a much more robust platform that can be the basis for  
EAS monitoring assignments in future LECC and SECC plans.

There are proposals before FEMA and FCC for such wireless radio links  
(LRN's). Stay tuned.

Richard Rudman


On Oct 2, 2009, at 9:14 PM, Thomas Shanks wrote:


> This is my sticking point.  Are they actually going to require every  

> station to have a disaster-proof Internet connection?  The internet  

> itself is not at all disaster-proof.  The boxes really need to be  

> listening for relay and relaying when the internet does not pass the  

> traffic first.  The last thing we need is the FCC breathing down our  

> throats when the low-speed wireless internet connection to the  

> transmitter site that uses routers a 1/4 mile in the air dies for a  

> few months due to a lightning strike.  Relay should take over, and  

> stations should be permitted to operate over the old relay for as  

> long as technically required.

>

> Come on National Office!  Get leeway out of FEMA on this!

>

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