[sbe-eas] PEP Stations - If we tell you we will have to kill you

[Sean Donelan]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Stephen Weber wrote:

> NPR squawk is perfect for redundancy to PEP, not as a replacement...


A particular NPR affliate may or may not connect its EAS equipment 
to the NPR national squawk channel. I don't know of a national list of NPR 
affliates which are setup to re-transmit EANs from their squawk channel. 
Each state/local committee would need to check with each NPR affliate how
it was configured.

PEPAC filed a letter last summer describing some of the history
http://ecfsdocs.fcc.gov/filings/2011/07/20/6016829957.html

Its almost like a quasi-version of the old EAN Network.  Diversity
is also useful. Disasters come in all forms. A mix of terrestrial, 
satellite, and wired is probably a good idea in plans.

Should other national networks such as Comcast, Directv, DISH, Sirius/XM, 
C-SPAN, NASA TV, Verizon, etc be part of the core diversity of the EAS web 
instead of just being at the edge or left out completely?