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15 lines
1021 B
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# Emergency Alert System (EAS) Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) Encoder
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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
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directions, so I did what any responsible emergency-obsessed turbonerd would do and purchased a SAGE Alerting Systems EAS ENDEC (Encoder/Decoder).
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[Here's a quick background on how EAS SAME headers work.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5o1sfXXf9E)
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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
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stations, and, if the specified information matched the predefined filters, would _rebroadcast_ the emergency message on its local station.
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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
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EAS ENDEC.
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[YouTube demo!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVxHkMDX2F8)
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