Board advances plan to add local emergency-alert capability with new transcoders

May 27, 2026

Technical staff described integrating an Emergency Alert System (EAS) module in new Lamoille transcoders that would let the district interrupt programming locally, potentially making Elko County a primary trigger point for local National Weather Service/NOAA alerts.

The full story

Technical staff (speaker S5) described steps to integrate a local Emergency Alert System capability into the district’s infrastructure, using optional modules on new transcoders and a device at the fiber hut to intercept and interrupt incoming programming.

Free newsletter

Sign up to keep reading.

Your free newsletter brings you what your city council, county, and school board discussed and decided.

or
Already have an account? Sign in