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CTA Publishes Performance Specification for Public Alert Receivers

Published on August 2023

CTA’s WAVE committee publishes ANSI/CTA-2009-C, Performance Specification for Public Alert Receivers. ANSI/CTA-2009-C describes the events these radios should recognize, how users should be able to program them, what sort of indications the radios should give when an alert is received, the quality of the audio they should produce, and other things.

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