Receiving EAS Monitoring Assignment Stations?

[WNTIRadio]

The problem with POTS is that it is going the way of the buffalo.

Here in NJ, after Sandy, all of the places that got destroyed had fiber installed in place of the copper that got wrecked. So old fashioned POTS/nailed-up circuits as we knew them are all on fiber now. That capacity is gone and is now all broadband on the fiber.

 

[secondchoice]

Most phone companies run fiber T1 or T3 to the neighborhood junctions. You can divide the data streams up any way the company wants. The former baby bell's build capacity for POTS and DSL when they installed Lucent / Western Electric 5 E's (or a competing Nortel central office switch system) in the late 90's and or early 2000's. Remember the phone companies had to have capacity for dial up internet before DSL. The old stuff should still be in place because most of it was on a 30 year depreciation schedule and the phone companies would have to "recapture" the investment credits they received.

 

[mm11]

The problem with POTS is that it is going the way of the buffalo.

Here in NJ, after Sandy, all of the places that got destroyed had fiber installed in place of the copper that got wrecked. So old fashioned POTS/nailed-up circuits as we knew them are all on fiber now. That capacity is gone and is now all broadband on the fiber.

That also means their will be no more ISDN in those areas. ISDN is a decent back-up to an STL and is more reliable than many of the IP alternatives at most sites here.
We have seen a big increase in trouble tickets for copper POTS lines in the last five or so years.
Verizon in NJ has also steeply reduced it's staff of serviceman for POTS in the last few years. I think that the increase in problems is related to the lack of staff to support the copper infrastructure. It seems like they are just happy to let it all decay now that they have VOIP as their preferred service offering. A couple of Verizon corporate sales reps here referred to their T1 circuits as an old technology and suggested that they would eventually be phased out. They didn't seem to understand (or care) that we need to send audio point to point synchronously without throughput delay.

 

[boiseengineer]

Way off topic...
I've noticed that some sports facilities in areas where the phone companies have stopped providing ISDN, the ISDN circuit is just an extension on their in-house digital switch. That may be an option for you.

Back on topic...
If the method you use to get your assigned station is approved by and published in the State/Local Area Plan, the FCC will be ok with it.
We monitor NOAA radio on 416.375. That's their link to the 162.550 transmitter. Besides sounding better (no distortion & compression noise pumping), we can still get alerts when the VHF is off the air. 416.375 has been added to the state plan and the FCC was happy with it.