[BC] serial printer assistance

[Charles Ring]

Find an old Epson EX-800 or EX-1000 (wide carraige and thus bulky) on 
eBay which has both parallel and serial inputs. It needs a special 
plug for the serial input but I found one for each of the 2 I used 
for EAS. i think I have the manual which covers the serial input. It 
does a great job for this.

I was told (less than sure this is right) that the FCC does not 
accept EASWATCH and the like in place of a printer.

Randy Moore wrote:
>Yes, you can verify that the serial ports work using a terminal program.
>
>Rather than pay the very high price for a replacement serial printer 
>you can download the EASWATCH program from broadcast.net and use 
>that on a computer with a serial cable to record all EAS messages 
>received and activations sent.
>>
>>I have an eas serial printer that doesn't work after a lightning 
>>strike.  I don't have a second serial printer.  How would I test 
>>the serial output of the EAS unit to make sure it's just the 
>>printer (which I've confirmed dead, no lights, etc) Could I check 
>>it through a terminal program?
>>
>>Henry G. Royse, II