FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute released a new online course that provides training for emergency managers and others on the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) on December 14. A primary goal for this course is to provide authorized public safety officials with increased awareness of the benefits of using IPAWS to improve public...
On December 15 Monroe Electronics filed with the FCC that ignoring the “time of transmission” or “effective time” has “the very real potential of hindering the security and effectiveness of next generation alerting systems, including a possible impact on coordination between EAS, CAP EAS and CMAS/PLAN alert messaging.” The national live code EAN test...
Suzanne Goucher is the President & CEO, Maine Association of Broadcasters, the Chair of the Maine State Emergency Communications Committee, and the Co-Chair of the Joint National Association of Broadcasters-National Alliance of State Broadcasters Associations (NASBA-NAB) EAS Committee. She is also one of the seven core members of the Broadcast Warning Working Group that...
A recent posting on the Radio World site by a Dr. Marian Mustoe, Ph.D, talks about shortcomings of the EAS, but contains some inaccuracies and misinformation that need to be corrected for the record. I just posted the following on the RW site: I suppose I should have been flattered that a statement I...
Suzanne Goucher, Co-chair, National Alliance of State Broadcasters Associations/National Association of Broadcasters (NASBA) EAS Committee and core member of the Broadcast Warning Working Group (BWWG) made news during the FEMA EAS Webinar on November 29. Paraphrasing her words posted later on several EAS lists, Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) is poised to introduce a bill...
The Required Weekly Test (RWT), consisting of just “legacy EAS” SAME data bursts, should be deleted as an EAS code, and the RWT compliance requirement in Part 11 adjusted accordingly. Since a RWT contains no audio, it does not test all the elements needed for a real EAS event — namely, a RWT does not...
