[Scan-DC] Alert Montgomery Emergency Warning System Upgraded

[Ed Tobias]

Yes, the texts are fine.  The emails are not.



-----Original Message----- 
From: N4JOG
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2014 7:57 PM
To: Matt Bonner
Cc: Ed Tobias ; Jeff Krauss ; Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net ; Dewey
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Alert Montgomery Emergency Warning System Upgraded

I receive the alerts from several jurisdictions in the DC area via 
Everbridge.  Everbridge offers the option of receiving text, email and/or 
phone alerts.  I have not tracked the lag time between text and email 
alerts, but the text alerts appear to sent in a timely manner.

Ted Royster
N4JOG

> On Oct 25, 2014, at 19:06, Matt Bonner via Scan-DC 
> <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>
> Yeah they have some fine tuning and enhancing to do with everbridge.
>
>
>
>> On Oct 25, 2014, at 1:47 PM, Ed Tobias <edtobias at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> I'm not on the PG system but I receive emails and texts from DC and 
>> Montgo. Since changing to Everbridge, however, emails are lagging several 
>> hours being the texts.  A DC alert that was sent around 5pm on Oct. 17, 
>> for example, was received as an email around 8am the next day.  I'm 
>> seeing the same problem from Montgo since they changed alert providers. 
>> This has happened a number of times from both governments.
>>
>> Frankly, when I was in charge of crisis planning for my company, before 
>> retiring, and had to select a multi-platform alerting system the 
>> Everbridge system failed to make the cut.
>>
>>
>> Ed
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Dewey
>> Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2014 9:28 AM
>> To: 'Jeff Krauss'
>> Cc: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Alert Montgomery Emergency Warning System Upgraded
>>
>> DC did this first sometime ago, then PG followed suit.  If this is the 
>> same
>> "system" that DC and PG are using, and I can't see why not, they were 
>> saying
>> that if you didn't upgrade in a given amount of time, your account would 
>> be
>> purged and you would have to register again.  (The actual alerting system
>> accounts for all three are at everbridge.net).
>>
>> Dewey
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Scan-DC [mailto:scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jeff
>> Krauss
>> Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2014 09:07
>> To: P Lepine; Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Alert Montgomery Emergency Warning System Upgraded
>>
>> What happens if I don't "upgrade my account"?
>> Will I get all alerts?  Or none?
>>
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