[SBE] [SPAM]Re: EAS CAP

[Russ VanderHorst]

Hi,

 

Sounds to me like it is all coming back to politics.that's a shame, but I
guess that is the way things go. I would think the insurance companies would
want to lower their risk of lives lost by having an efficient, workable
warning system for major emergencies.but I can see what you are talking
about. 

 

I will say one other thing, I joined this list to get an education and to
find out what really happens in the field.I am certainly getting that. I had
no clue that EAS is in the condition that it is in. 

 

Thanks 

 

Russ

 

my homepage

http://russvanderhorst.info

 

From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of Edwin
Bukont
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 3:39 PM
To: sbe
Subject: [SPAM]Re: [SBE] EAS CAP

 


Cowboy
 
I am not disputing your POV.  The central issue that I see, and where I
think Russ was going, is this.  Yes, Amber Alerts are important.  And so are
many other emergency messages.  But if EAS was allowed to be the sort of
service the government really wanted, two things would happen:
 
1.  Station audio/video would be constantly interrupted for emergency
messages from every tom dick and harry AHJ.
 
2.  There would be massive involvement of insurance agencies to determine
the messsage priority protocol and what the value is of a lowered protocal
when more lives are lost due to a message that was delayed by a higher
protocol.
 
For emergency messages to work, there has to be local control of the
priority.  That seems to be where the FCC and FEMA don't agree,,,who has the
final control of priority and protocol.

Edwin Bukont CSRE, DRB, CBNT 
V- 240.417.2475; F- 240.368.1265 

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