[BC] New Petition filed today on EAS issues with the FCC

[Alex Hartman]

There's many fundamental problems with EAS and the governing body as a whole already. I would hope they learn from the EAS era and try to correct it.

Case and point, my 2 required monitoring stations according to the MN state plan are both MPR stations... on the same tower, on the same power grid, fed from the same satellite dish in the same building! (no local EAS encoder/decoder, it's all handled by MPR's NOC 80 miles south)

I would really like to see a diversity requirement for that since EAS-CAP have to co-exist. When CAP does take over, i would hope that i would be monitoring several different servers, not just the statewide system.

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Alex Hartman

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Lotus Engineering <loteng at lvradio.com> wrote:
>Extremely well written petition.  I thank you all and congratulate all of you on this action.
>Bill

>Bill Croghan CPBE WBØKSW
>Chief Engineer,
>KOMP/KXPT/KENO/KBAD/KWWN/KWID
>Lotus Broadcasting, Las Vegas, NV

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Richard Rudman
>>
>> Adrienne Abbott, Clay Freinwald, Barry Mishkind and I today filed a
>> Petition with the FCC to get a number of CAP-EAS issues on the record
>> that have not yet been addressed. We filed as a group calling ourselves
>> the Independent EAS Stakeholders.
>>
>> The Petition says in part that CAP-EAS "has not yet been fully fleshed
>> out, certified, tested and validated on a large scale by the agency
>> that has the overall responsibility for it, the Federal Communications
>> Commission."