September 8, 2004
Present:
Clay Freinwald-Entercom
Kris McGowan-FCC
Don Miller-WSEM
John Franz-KVOS
Don White-KCPQ/KTWB
Jim Tharp-Entercom
Bob Wyatt -Spokane (Phone)
Art Blum - KONA (Phone)
Evidently
NEXTEL in conjunction with Then
National Center for Missing &
Exploited Children and Comlabs has
developed a system where Nextel
Customers can be notified of Amber
Alerts. It is a pilot program but
will be expanded.
Old
Business
Amber Plans that have been approved
so far are;
The
Spokane County plan was discussed
and is still a work in progress.
Evidently they want to have the
ability to send a local Amber Alert
without having it go statewide.
This is in conflict with the new
State Plan.
A
new copy of Tab 5 (Western Washington
EAS Matrix) was passed out and looked
over.
A
new copy of Tab 6 (Eastern Washington
EAS Matrix) was passed out and looked
over.
Don
Miller briefly discussed the September
Monthly Test that is to coincide
with the NWS Tsunami Alert for the
West Coast. It will be coded as
a RMT and be originated by NWS.
A
special thanks to Mark Allen of
WSAB. The front page of the WSAB
Bulletin has an article announcing
the New Amber Web Portal., an article
"Has your EAS monitoring assignment
changed", and an announcement
of the date change for the Sept
RMT.
The
new FCC EAS NPR was discussed. Clay
reported that SBE will be replying
to the NPR. The question was do
we want to respond as the Wash SECC?
It was decided that this should
be discussed on the re-mailer. Clay
will be posting a possible outline
of questions we may want to respond
to.
Evidently
there is a EAS Roundtable to be
held in conjunction with the Electronics
Expo. The date of the Expo is Sept.
28 & 29 while the EAS roundtable
is scheduled for the 27th of Sept.
The feeling of most was that attendance
would be very limited because there
is nothing else scheduled for that
date and nobody would want to come
to the Expo a day early just for
the EAS Roundtable. Clay will check
this out with SBE and get back to
us. Clay is looking for a leader
for this event, as he will be out
of town.
Tab
10 (Washington Monitory Assignments)
was discussed. Evidently there is
difficulty deciding proper assignments,
where the studios for some stations
are miles from the City of License.
Tab
14 (Block Diagram of the National
Distribution) was passed out and
approved. The new diagram has the
Nation Public Radio link added.
Tab
17 (EAS event codes)was passed out
and discussed. It was decided to
do a bit of editing on this list
to reflect responsibly for the codes
and which agency would be issuing
them.
Kris
McGowan reported that she has been
chasing interference complaints
caused by Radio Shack TV antennas
and associated amplifiers. Several
stations that did not respond to
our inquiries for monitoring information
were checked out and seem to be
doing fine with their EAS equipment
and monitoring. She found one Cable
TV system that has not been paying
attention to EAS logs and did not
investigate why they did not receive
a monthly test for several months.
Next
Meeting: November 18, 2004 at Washington
State EMD, Camp Murray.
Respectfully Submitted
Jim Tharp
Entercom Seattle
(206) 726-7097
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