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E-mail Ralph Beaver
SBE EAS Committee Chairman
Recap - Annual SBE EAS Meeting (April 20, 2010)
2010 NAB Show, Las Vegas, NV
Held Monday, April 12, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Las Vegas Hilton Hotel, Conference Rooms 4 & 5
The Society of Broadcast Engineers hosted an interesting slate of technical presenters this year for its annual SBE EAS Meeting. SBE EAS Committee Chairman, Ralph Beaver opened the meeting and introducded SBE EAS Committee member, Gary Timm, who moderated the program. Gary's Meeting Outline and EAS/CAP Update.
The first session was titled: “Recent Developments in Alert Aggregation and Dissemination Technologies: How We Think it’s Really Going to Work” (may take 30 seconds or more to download). The session was presented by two engineers and a systems architect working with the FEMA IPAWS Program; Al Kenyon, Senior Technical Analyst, Rod Cash, Systems Engineer and Gary Ham, Eye Street Software Corporation. IPAWS, the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System, will be the vehicle for aggregating and disseminating messages for the new EAS CAP alerting system. This was an interesting insight into how that work is progressing. More information is available about the speakers, Al Kenyon, Rod Cash and Gary Ham.
The second session was presented by ECIG, the EAS-CAP Industry Group. ECIG is a broad coalition of equipment, software and service providers to the Emergency Alert System. This is an organization made up of most of the EAS/CAP equipment manufacturers. Members of the ECIG Board of Directors told us about their organization and its progress on drafting a CAP-to-EAS Implementation Guide as a recommendation to the FEMA IPAWS Program.
The closing session was an open discussion among the meeting attendees and all of the presenters.
FEMA Estimates CAP adoption date (4/14/10)
According to a statement by DHS Assistant Administrator Damon Penn on April 14, 2010, FEMA estimates that its CAP adoption date, which would start the 180-day clock for broadcasters to buy CAP equipment, will be, "September of 2010”.
Link to the FEMA website page that explains what IPAWS is all about.
NAB Report from March 30, 2009 EAS Summit - FM radio in cell phones (4/1/09) This report is not endorsed nor the policy of the SBE. Provided for informational purposes only.
The evolution of the SBE EAS - CAP Roadmap
By Clay Freinwald 11/24/08
In conjunction with an FCC EAS Summit in Washington, DC, in May of 2008, the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) released a document titled, "A Strategy for Implementing CAP EAS". It outlined the steps that SBE saw as needing to be accomplished in order to implement Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) for EAS. The SBE document divided the tasks among six proposed Working Groups (WG): EAS CAP Profile WG, EAS CAP Distribution Network WG, EAS CAP On-Air Presentation WG, EAS CAP Training WG, EAS CAP Equipment WG, and EAS CAP FCC Rules/FEMA Directives Study WG.
Shortly thereafter, this SBE document was adopted by a newly-formed group called the EAS CAP Roadmap Coordinating Committee, of which SBE is a member. This group further refined the SBE document, now known as "The EAS CAP Roadmap", and is now moving forward with staffing the Working Groups and addressing the identified tasks. The following is current version of The EAS CAP Roadmap.
Strategy for Impementing CAP EAS (November 2008)
SBE's suggestions to aid implementation of CAP technology for a revised Emergency Alert System
SBE's Interpretation of New EAS Rules (August 2007)
Frequently Asked Questions regarding New EAS Rules (August 2007)
Society of Broadcast Engineers opposes live code testing of EAS (May 2007)
Click here for more information about the Common Alerting Protocol (July 2007)
Now available are four podcast files that make up the SBE EAS Meeting held on Monday, April 16, 2007 in Las Vegas during NAB2007. Each file is large in size, and may take longer to download.
Click here to listen to Part 1
Click here to listen to Part 2
Click here to listen to Part 3
Click here to listen to Part 4 Or click this link to hear an archived recording of the SBE EAS Meeting. Our thanks to Broadcast.net, Tieline and Trilithic for their support which made the live streaming and archive of the meeting possible.
EAS Exchange
An SBE sponsored e-mail discussion group about the EAS
FCC Acts on EAS Issues (Nov. 2005)
EAS
Q&A Articles - From Radio Guide By Clay Freinwald and Barry Mishkind
SBE's Vision for EAS (5/5/06) by Clay Freinwald and Richard Rudman
Emergency
Alert System, EAS WA State Info
Self-Inspection Checklist for Broadcasters
and Cable System Operators - Procedures (11/00)
Emergency Alert System Self-Inspection
Checklist for Broadcasters and Cable Systems (11/00)EAS
Sample Log (11/00)
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