[SBE16-Seattle] EAS Tab 10 Updates Are Here!

[Jon Kasprick - SBE]

Terry,

Clay sent it to the EAS remailer a few days ago. He tried to post here, but
had trouble. This is an additional post for the benefit of our members who
are not on the EAS remailer.

*Jon Kasprick, PE, CBRE, DRB*

*Society of Broadcast Engineers*
*Director, Chapter 16, Seattle*
253-951-3347


On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 11:20 AM Spring, Terry <TerrySpring at ionmedia.com>
wrote:

> Shouldn’t this go to the EAS remailer?
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> *Terry Spring*
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> *Chief Engineer*
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> KWPX TV
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> *From:* SBE16-Seattle <sbe16-seattle-bounces at sea.sbe16.org> *On Behalf Of
> *Jon Kasprick - SBE via SBE16-Seattle
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 28, 2020 10:09 AM
> *To:* SBE Chapter 16 Members and Others <sbe16-seattle at sbe16.org>
> *Subject:* [SBE16-Seattle] EAS Tab 10 Updates Are Here!
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> The long-awaited redesign of the EAS monitoring assignment tab for your
> Washington State EAS Handbook has been published.
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> *THE ATTACHED 3 FILES REPLACE YOUR CURRENT TAB 10*. Please coordinate
> with your station's Chief Operator to ensure your handbook is up to date.
> See details below.
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> This new Tab 10 is a complete re-design that supports the current FCC
> direction for EAS monitoring assignments and the Alert Reporting System
> (ARS).
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> The following comes from Clay Freinwald, our Washington State EAS Chair -
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> *For well over 20 years, the Washington State SECC has attempted to guide
> every Radio &TV Station and Cable System regarding what to monitor for the
> Emergency Alert System….*
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> *Our State EAS Plan has, over the years, had various Tabs (Segments) that
> dealt with this issue.   The reason was simple – The FCC wants the SECC’s
> to determine how National-Level* *Messages propagate to every EAS
> Participant in the State. *
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> *Over the years the FCC has been ‘ramping up’ their end of the deal with
> periodic National Tests (NPT’s) and following it up by having all
> Participants report to the FCC how the system is working via the Electronic
> Test Reporting System (ETRS).*
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> *To make the loop complete, the FCC is about to launch a system called
> ARS. This will provide a method for the SECC’s to report to the FCC how our
> State systems are organized including what the Local Primary Stations (LPs)
> and Distribution Systems are monitoring.   In this way, when the FCC checks
> the results from ETRS they will know how the overall system functions.*
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> *With all this going on, the time had come to overhaul the way Washington
> State was discharging this responsibility.     To that end, the SECC
> appointed a committee to overhaul not only the State EAS Plan, but the
> segment that deals with Participant Monitoring – We are now, officially,
> launching this change.*
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> *Going forward, the SECC will no-longer be prescribing what Participants
> (Call PN’s) Monitor – replacing this method are tables that provide choices
> for Participants that will ensure that they are properly connected.   (This
> information is all in what we now call Tab 10C)*
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> *We are now, hereby, issuing Monitoring Assignments to Local Primary
> Stations and Distribution Systems.    (This information is contained in our
> new Tab 10B)*
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> *Information about how this all goes together is contained in a new Tab
> 10A*
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> *So here is what you need to do -*
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> *INSTRUCTIONS **FOR UPGRADING YOUR COPY OF THE EAS PLAN*
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>    1. *Please remove the following **from your copy of the Washington
>    State EAS Plan –*
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> *·*         *Tab 5 – Western Washington Matrix (obsolete)*
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> *·*         *Tab 6 – Eastern Washington Matrix (obsolete)*
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> *·*         *Anything shown as Tab 10 – Including those with
> Alpha-Suffixes – ie, Tab 10B, Tab10C etc.*
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>    1. *Replace all of the above with the 3 attached files (as Tab 10).*
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> *INSTRUCTIONS FOR DEALING WITH OPERATIONAL ISSUES*
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>    1. *Carefully read Tab 10A. (This explains how it all goes together)*
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>    1. *If you are  Local Primary (LP), or Distribution System,  Carefully
>    note your Monitoring Assignments in the new Tab 10B*
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> *·*         *In some cases they are the same as they were –*
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> *·*         *In others, additional and/or different equipment is
> required.*
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> *·*         *Remember these are – Requirements, not options**. *
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>    1. *If you are a PN (Meaning your Station/Facility is NOT an LP or
>    Distribution System)*
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> *·*         *Carefully review the Options you have for Monitoring to
> remain FCC compliant in the new Tab 10C*
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> *FINALLY –*
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> *Should you have any questions as to how these new procedures work at your
> facility –*
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> *Please post those questions to the EAS-WA Remailer (eas-wa at sbe16.org
> <eas-wa at sbe16.org>) where answers will be provided for the benefit of all.*
>
> *Let the record show my sincere appreciation to those have volunteered to
> be on the EAS Plan Revisions Committee* *and have worked so hard to
> complete this task.    Specifically I want to thank Charlie Osgood who
> works with Alpha Media in Wenatchee for his proofing and editing skills..*
>
> *Historically, none of our EAS Plan material is ‘Cast in Stone’.   All of
> our work is open for review and improvement.*
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> *Therefore, I encourage your contributions to that end.*
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> *Now we move on to other work to be done as we take on the task of
> over-hauling the rest of our EAS Plan and the roll out of what will be
> known as WA-PAWS later this year.*
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> *If you’d like to be a part of this process, we’d love to have you on our
> team.*
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> As a previous member of the Plan Revision committee, I can attest to the
> importance of the current effort to overhaul our state EAS Plan. Clay and I
> encourage all members with an interest in the success of our EAS
> coordination efforts to get involved.
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> Stay well.
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> *Jon Kasprick, PE, CBRE, DRB*
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> *Society of Broadcast Engineers*
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> *Director 1, Chapter 16, Seattle*
> 253-951-3347
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