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The EAS went off...on Pulse 87's stream!

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I was listening to Pulse 87 online and heard a test of the Emergency Alert System on the web stream. That was weird, to say the least.
 
Nick said:
I was listening to Pulse 87 online and heard a test of the Emergency Alert System on the web stream. That was weird, to say the least.
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That would happen if a station feeds their web encoder via an FM radio which some stations do.

I was an IT tech for 4 years at a small non comm and I fed my station that way because the Transmitter and Processing was in a enclosure about 150 ft from the studio and I was not going to locate the encoder PC at the xmitter building so I used a receiver instead in the studio rack.
 
Don't think so. The streams sounds different than there off air signal. It would be nice to feed there stream from the off air signal, it sounds a lot better than now.
 
I listen to Pulse via radiotime, would there be any difference in the stream if it was from there or off the Pulse 87 website? I would assume the off air feed would stream from radiotime.
 
erwin33 said:
Don't think so. The streams sounds different than there off air signal. It would be nice to feed there stream from the off air signal, it sounds a lot better than now.
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If their stream is not fed off air the only other reason you would hear the EAS messages on their webstream is their web stream is fed by something after the EAS receiver/decoder but before the processing and transmitter.

Also another reason the stream sounds diff then off air is if the bit rate of the stream is not high enough to reproduce the same sound.
 
The livestream sounds 'flat' like it is fed without processing, the on air signal sounds processed and nice. I miss this sound on the stream.
 
Isn't the EAS encoder supposed to be placed last in the airchain, right before the transmitter? I don't think the EAS is allowed to go through an audio processor. So the only way for an EAS alert to make the web stream is if they feed the stream off the air, or tap into the airchain right before the STL.
The EAS went off in the middle of a song on the stream and when the test ended, it resumed in the middle of the same song. I don't remember if it was a weekly or monthly test. I know that stations have little control when a monthly test is aired, but they have more control for a weekly test.
 
ask their engineer.. I have heard the same on ours... The EAS is the last thing in the program chain before splitting to the STLs and Stream.. I'm sure there a few like it across the country. Some feed the stream Mix-Minus
 
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