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AlertEagle® 400 Diagnostic
EAS and SAME Decoder
The AlertEagle®400 (AE400) is a high performance, patented, diagnostic EAS/SAME decoder. The AE400 system includes the Weather Eagle 105 radio receiver and the AE400 decoder. This system translates EAS/SAME encoded messages from NOAA’s National Weather Service into readable text and relays that text by LAN/WAN and Internet to printers, email and pagers. The system is designed in a modular fashion so that parts of the system can be added as your budget permits.
The AE400 is engineered for durability with modern surface mount technology. The unit has special audio filters and amplifiers to provide the most reliable SAME/EAS decoding capabilities. The AE400 is especially useful for emergency operations centers, security offices, mobile communications vehicles, command posts, and search and rescue units. The firmware in the AE400 is flash memory, which can be upgraded in the field, using the optional programmer.
How the AE400 Decoder Works
1) The AE400 receives the EAS/SAME alert messages and decodes the alerts and translates them into text and compares them to a table of user-selected events and locations. If the event and location are a ‘match,’ a relay closes for a user-selected period of time and the radio is unmuted.
2) The AE400 digitally saves the last text alert message and prepares it for output as hard print copy andr formats the data for display on LED signboards. With the FipsSender™ software and the SignPrinter® interface, the alert messages are automatically sent through your LAN/WAN and Internet for display on LED signboards and printers at remote locations. With the AirMessenger ASCii software and the FipsSender™ software alert emails are sent automatically.
3) The AE400 has a battery-backed-up local time clock to date-and-time stamp each alert. The last event message is displayed on the AE400's LED screen.
4) The AE400 may be installed as a 'filter' to automatically place selected weather warnings and emergency alert messages on other communication systems, including public address systems, police, fire or public utility radio and trunked radio.
5) The AE400 is easy to program, using the FipsFileMaker™ and FipsLoader™ software for the specific alerts to be received.
6) Activating the “All Call” switch permits the AE400 to receive all SAME/EAS alerts. This feature is useful when there is a sudden severe weather event and all alerts that are usually filtered need to be decoded or the AE400 is switched to a backup transmitter and the event and location codes on the new transmitter are not programmed into the AE400.
7) If the AE400 cannot find a translation for the SAME/EAS alert code, it will place the incoming, non-translated code in the text message. This will enable the user to quickly know which code translations need to be added to the look-up table in the AE400.
8) Test audio EAS/SAME test messages can be input into the AE400 to test the system.
Diagnostic Features
As a result of years of research and development, the AE400 has many patented diagnostic features that can provide the user with positive feedback about the operation of the entire EAS/SAME system. These include:
1) A real-time FSK Lock-Detect LED to detect the EAS/SAME signal.
2) The system digitally saves the most recent alert into the AE400, including each SAME/EAS burst, the event and location matched, and whether the “End of Message” signal has been decoded.
3) Diagnostic LEDs (light emitting diodes) detect a’ match’ or ‘no match’ with the most recent alert, whether the “End of Message” signal was decoded, whether the relay is closed in alert mode, whether data is being written or read from the AE400 memory.
4) The AE400 has ‘muted ’(off) and ‘unmuted’ (on) audio outputs and screw terminal contacts for connection to the double-pole, double-throw relay.
5) A “Last Alert” button sends the most recent alert received to the LED signboard and the “+” button sends it to the RS-232 printer port for diagnostic purposes. The “Play” button plays the last alert. The Monitor switch lets the user listen to the quality of the audio reaching the AE400 EAS/SAME decoder.
6) A “Reset” button mutes the speaker and opens the alert relay, turning off the system.
6) The Menu button accesses the configuration menu:
C- Current settings.
1 - Set hrs/min/sec of relay closure on SAME alert match.
2 - Set hrs/min for AE400 clock.
3 - Set year/month/day/day of week for AE400 clock.
4 - SAME/EAS diagnostics on comm port (Enable/Disable).
5 - Printer Port - Set for printer or paging.
6 - wav file - Set LED port to wav file sync.
D - Restore default settings.
E - To End.
03/10/07
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