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Post by kenglish on Apr 17, 2013 10:46:09 GMT -6
How did everybody do with the ShakeOut today? Any broadcast participants, Ham Radio, etc?
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Post by bonnevillemariner on Apr 17, 2013 12:03:31 GMT -6
How did everybody do with the ShakeOut today? Any broadcast participants, Ham Radio, etc? Dang, I forgot about that. I meant to listen in on the Farnsworth Peak Ham repeater just for fun. |
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Apr 18, 2013 3:57:15 GMT -6
Was the public supposed to know about this? I pay more attention to local news than most people and I hadn't even heard we were doing it again.
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Post by egnlsn on Apr 18, 2013 7:02:59 GMT -6
It wasn't very well advertised, that's for sure. I signed up for www.nixle.com not too long ago, and yesterday @9:17AM, I received an E-mail reminding me about it. |
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Apr 18, 2013 21:29:55 GMT -6
First I heard of it was here yesterday. Then I got my Questar bill today with a reminder that it WAS yesterday. I suppose people who have their bills sent earlier in the month would have appreciated that.  |
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Post by kenglish on Apr 20, 2013 8:55:01 GMT -6
I had made a note of it in my EAS Calendar, back in January. Didn't hear anything about it, though, until last week. I thought maybe it was due to not listening to local stations for 2 or 3 days.
I never heard anything on the ".62" repeater. I heard the Temple Square Ham Club on simplex, running check-in's.
The State never asked broadcasters to do any EAS like in the past.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Apr 20, 2013 16:31:23 GMT -6
The NWS does their weekly tests between 10AM and noon on Wednesdays. Could that have had an effect on whether broadcast stations would have been asked to participate?
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Post by kenglish on Apr 22, 2013 9:31:28 GMT -6
I doubt it. The State people just never responded to our questions about whether or not to participate via EAS.
One nice thing....KSL-TV actually rolled the satellite truck and a production truck to the big parking lot, and established satellite and microwave links to Farnsworth. We did the whole 12:00 newscast out there. We also took control of the studio Master Control facilities from the truck, which allowed us to simulate a "vacate the building" unmanned scenario.
In the case of a loss of the studio, the remote van can provide the transport stream and static PSIP to the transmitter on Farnsworth.
I guess we need to do a test with Comcast, on OTA reception via their head end. They say they can receive the SLC stations via OTA from multiple sites, in case of a fiber outage (or, loss of a studio).
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