Re: My Research on Minot, ND

[Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 12:05 PM 4/7/2003 -0400, Sid Schweiger wrote:
> >>So why wasn't EAS used?  Isn't that what EAS is supposed to be for?<<
>
>With the CC Minot cluster being almost entirely voice-tracked or otherwise 
>automated, no one was around to activate EAS, and my understanding is that 
>they would not have received the alert message from another station (i.e., 
>setting the EAS boxes to auto-relay wouldn't have solved the problem).
>
>Sid Schweiger

Sid - I don't doubt what you're saying, but isn't this a GLARING problem in 
that area's EAS chain?  What if a nuke was launched at the US and an EAN 
went out?  What would these stations do?

Is this just a case of poor planning on the program director's part in that 
they've only set their EAS boxes to not auto-forward anything except things 
like EAN's that cannot be set to not auto-forward?


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