[Yesterday: 3.4 miles]<\/p>\n
We ordered and received our one and only piece of new equipment for the WMFH-LP radio station, a Sage Digital Endec.<\/p>\n
There is a national emergency warning system that all radio stations, television stations, cable TV, even satellite TV are required to support.\u00a0 In my youth it was called the EBS, Emergency Broadcast System.\u00a0 Now it is called EAS, Emergency Alert System<\/a>.<\/p>\n Our radio station is required to monitor two other radio stations and an internet feed from FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency).\u00a0 Messages can come in at any time.\u00a0 And if one does come in, we have to interrupt our regular broadcast and play the message.<\/p>\n If you have ever purchased a “weather radio”, you will be familiar with the system.\u00a0 Some tones are embedded in a nasty sounding alert signal.\u00a0 Those tones encode what type of alert it is and what region it is for.\u00a0 Our endec (Encoder\/Decoder) has to be configured for what kind of alerts we want to pass along; there is an agreed-upon minimal list at the Mississippi Broadcasters Association<\/a> website.<\/p>\n So, this endec box is listening on multiple inputs for alert tones, and it has the smarts to know if an alert matches the configuration.\u00a0 When one does match, the endec generates new audio output and interrupts the current content and puts the emergency content on the line feeding the transmitter.<\/p>\n I have to acquire one more FM receiver to listen to our assigned monitoring stations, I have one and need two.\u00a0 Then I have a bunch of configuration stuff to do.\u00a0 And I want to create an interface between the endec and our playback system so that playback will pause until the alert is over (otherwise the content played during the alert will be missed).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Yesterday: 3.4 miles] We ordered and received our one and only piece of new equipment for the WMFH-LP radio station, a Sage Digital Endec. There is a national emergency warning system that all radio stations, television stations, cable TV, even satellite TV are required to support.\u00a0 In my youth it was called the EBS, Emergency […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classic-book-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5097,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096\/revisions\/5097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}