Emergency Alert System (EAS) Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) Encoder
During this Era of Our Perpetual 2020 COVID-Themed Lockdown, I assumed there'd be a bunch of emergency broadcasts sent over the FM airwaves giving us further directions, so I did what any responsible emergency-obsessed turbonerd would do and purchased a SAGE Alerting Systems EAS ENDEC (Encoder/Decoder).
Here's a quick background on how EAS SAME headers work.
During the late 90's / early 2000's, this is a device that would sit in the headend room of TV / FM / AM stations, listen for EAS SAME signals on neighboring stations, and, if the specified information matched the predefined filters, would rebroadcast the emergency message on its local station.
Anyway, since I'm trying to flex my coding skills right now, I wrote a Python script that generates these tones! Tested and is correctly interpreted by my SAGE EAS ENDEC.