[BC] serial printer assistance

[Charles Ring]

OK that is good to hear. I was told that such methods of logging were 
disallowed just after 9/11/2001 by interpretation, not by rule change. I 
never heard it from a second source so am not surprised it is not so. I 
do remember losing EASWATCH log files by DJ error while running it on a 
general purpose studio computer.

Tim Wright wrote:
> Not true.  When inspected last year the FCC inspector was thrilled 
> that I had EAScriber running, and was able to pull the logs in a 
> matter on seconds rather than hours of looking through little paper 
> slips.
>
> Charles Ring wrote:
>> 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.
>>