[SBE] EAS CAP

[Cowboy]

On Tuesday 06 October 2009 08:51 am, Russ VanderHorst wrote:

>  Hi All,

>  

>  As a student, and basically right now an outside observer, it doesn't make

>  sense to me why these protocols have not been determined a long time ago and

>  tested so that they know that they work.


 As an active participant for several decades, and THE guy for whom
 automated EBS was first considered "legal" ( by a personal visit to
 my station from the FCC department head to see what I was doing, 
 and how it all worked ) I also fail to make sense of it !

 Part of the reason though, could be money !
 I got hate mail from Sage Alerting for some 5 years, as I opposed then
 ( as I do now ) any system that is proprietary to one and only one
 manufacturer. THEIR system WAS determined, tested, and worked,
 as far as it went, but it was FM only, excluding AM, TV, and cable.
 Rather than work together, they took the approach of questioning
 my experience, credentials, and family lineage, in an attempt to
 protect and mandate their proprietary system.

 The national weather service and their WARSAME protocol took a
 similar stance, but without getting personal.
 ( I'm acronym challenged, so that's probably not exactly right )

 As long as folks refuse to work together for the common good,
 we can expect similar problems, possibly forever.

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