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WARRANTY
For a period of 1 year from date of shipment, Gorman-Redlich warrants the CAP-DEC 1 to be free
from defects in materials and workmanship and will repair or replace, at its option, any CAP-DEC 1
unit that fails in normal service without a charge for parts or labor and with a flat $25 fee, prepaid by
purchaser, to cover shipping and handling. Units can only be accepted for adjustment under
Warranty following notification by letter, telephone or e-mail. Units showing evidence of modification
or abuse, in the judgment of Gorman-Redlich, cannot be accepted for repair under Warranty, but
will be repaired for a reasonable fee, with the consent of the purchaser.
COMMON ALERTING PROTOCOL AND THE EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM
The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) is an XML-based data format for exchanging public
warnings and emergencies between alerting technologies. CAP allows warning messages to be
distributed consistently and simultaneously across multiple warning systems. This protocol
allows for the inclusion of large amounts of information about emergency situations which can
range from general situational data to information intended for specific alerting platforms.
The Emergency Alert System (EAS) is a national warning system in the United States put into
place on January 1, 1997. In addition to alerting the public of local weather emergencies such as
tornadoes and flash floods, the EAS enables the President of the United States to address the
public on short notice via radio and television broadcast. EAS regulations and standards are
governed by the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau of the FCC. EAS has become
part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Integrated Public Alert and
Warning System (IPAWS) and is jointly coordinated by FEMA, the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC), and the National Weather Service (NOAA/NWS).
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF MODEL CAP-DEC 1 UNIVERSAL INTERMEDIARY DEVICE
The Gorman-Redlich CAP-DEC 1 Universal Intermediary Device retrieves CAP formatted alert
files from various sources on the internet. These files are compared to a variety of standards and
specifications, including the CAP v1.2 standard, the FEMA IPAWS Profile and the EAS-CAP
Implementation Guide to ensure message validity as well as being filtered by location and
effective time period. Valid messages are then transformed into an EAS Specific Area Message
Encoding (SAME) formatted header and passed on, along with additional audio, to attached EAS
equipment for transmission in a similar fashion to EAS alerts received over the air.
NOTE:
Gorman-Redlich Mfg. Co. strongly suggests operating the CAP-DEC 1 device with an
uninterruptible power supply (UPS) for both surge protection and battery back-up functionality.