On Sep 29, 5:52*pm, John Higdon wrote:
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I havn't heard it or heard of any problems with it, but I can imagine
what it would sound like and I'm glad they got it off the air.

Don't forget that the EAS burst (202 modem carrier) contains headers,
footers, event codes, region codes, and other information that has to
line up with the programming in a station's decoder. One item out of
place or incorrect and the message is ignored. Unless nefarious intent
was present, it is most highly unlikely that a random burst of even
genuine 202 data (which has its own self-validation) would present any
sort of problem to stations monitoring the broadcast for EAS purposes.

All that said, I think the current system is flaw-ridden in the
extreme...but this isn't one of those flaws. It should also be noted
that this is the first system (previous systems included EANS and EBS)
that has actually worked well enough that it has served in real
emergency notifications.

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John Higdon
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I wasn't referring to its actually setting off the receivers, but to
the annoyance factor.