CFW Enterprises
CFW may refer to: * CFW, the Specific Area Message Encoding, SAME code for a Coastal flood, Coastal Flood Warning * CFW Communications, now nTelos * Campaign for the Feminine Woman, later Concern for Family and Womanhood, a British anti-feminist organisation * Confederation of Filipino Workers * Custom firmware {{disambig ...
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Specific Area Message Encoding
Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) is a protocol used for framing and classification of broadcast emergency warning messages. It was developed by the United States National Weather Service for use on its NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) network, and was later adopted by the Federal Communications Commission for the Emergency Alert System, then subsequently by Environment Canada for use on its Weatheradio Canada service. It is also used to set off receivers in Mexico City and surrounding areas as part of the Mexican Seismic Alert System (SASMEX). History From the 1960s to the 1980s, a special feature of the NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) system was the transmission of a single attention tone prior to the broadcast of any message alerting the general public of significant weather events. This became known as the Warning Alarm Tone (WAT). Although it served NWR well, there were many drawbacks. Without staff at media facilities to manually evaluate the need to rebroadcast an NWR message using ...
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