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- From: tweek@netcom.com (Michael D. Maxfield)
- Newsgroups: ba.broadcast
- Subject: Re: Current EBS procedures?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.002428.9353@netcom.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 00:24:28 GMT
- References: <77469@apple.apple.COM> <1993Jan25.101346@kuttner.sfc.sony.com> <1993Jan26.170202.8013@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1993Jan26.170202.8013@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> prm@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (paul.r.mount) writes:
- >
- >Question for broadcasters: when a station runs an EBS test, do you
- >actually do more than what it sounds like to a listener:
- >which is play a cart that announces the test, and play a tone for
- >a few seconds, and make another announcement?
-
- Yes, and no.
-
- The station plays an announcement tape, and then engages the EBS two-tone
- generator, and once the tone ends, the station plays the "This has been a
- test" cart. The tones MUST come from the EBS device, and may not be played
- back on tape because the tones must be pure, and within a few cps of the
- intened frequencies, because.....
-
- Any station, who has their EBS monitor set to the station running the
- test, should hear their EBS monitor trip.
-
- The two-tone system is not only to perk the ears up of the listening
- public, but to trigger other devices at other stations.
-
- It's been quite a few years since I've been involved in radio, but I
- do believe that all EBS tests (sent and received) need to be entered
- into the station logs.
-
- Keep in mind... If the ebs tests don't trip remote receivers during a
- test, then the most likely won't work in a real emergency... and you'll
- be listening to Live105 (or any other station) and you won't hear about
- the nuclear bomb dropping till Laurie Thompson (or any other newscaster)
- sees it in the morning Chron.
-
- There is also the top level distribution system that is in place to
- relay EBS activations to the top level stations. I don't know what
- the distribution medium is now, but at one time at least, it was
- (at least partially) via teletype.
-
- tweek@netcom.com tweek@tweekco.uucp WWIVNet 5@5058 4@5056
- I'd rather get my cable service from the phone company,
- than my phone service from the cable company.
-