Re: Sept 9 Amber Alert Meeting

[Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com>]

On Sat, 07 Sep 2002 20:48:50 -0400 "Aaron 'Bishop' Read"
<aread@speakeasy.net>  > 
> I'd like to see three things:
> 
> 1: an EAS hardware system that actually works...perhaps off a 
> satellite 
> system...paid for by the FCC.  All EAS encoders/decoders must be 
> built to a 
> very strict hardware and user-interface standard.  i.e. "Push Button 
> A to 
> forward test.  Push Button B to forward real alert, etc)
> 
> 2: requirement of all radio stations that all actual EAS alerts - 
> including 
> weather - must be broadcast in their original form.  No more of this 
> "We'll 
> just read the alert on the air" crap.
> 
> 3: finally, and no doubt most difficult, force all receiver 
> manufacturers 
> to add the circuitry EAS was supposed to use to turn radios on (that 
> are 
> off) automatically in case of an alert.

Those are items that would be well beyond the scope of setting up an EAS
system for Amber Alerts in Massachusetts would they not?
df