[BC] EAS Logs

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Bailey, Scott wrote:
>EAS Logs are can be maintained separate in electronic form.
>Since I'm the Chief Operator, and I was to maintain an electronic log on
>my pc, this is acceptable to the commission?

All inspectors are not created equal, meaning as their opinions vary, 
the rule for you varies a bit.  I just try to have a level of 
confidence based on my own ascertainment of what the rules appear to say.

I *can* say that Tampa and Kansas City agents are ok with electronic 
EAS logs because they've been happy with ours on several occasions.

Ours exist on a laptop in a Notepad document only.  They get there 
from the EAS unit, not transcribed from a thermal tape (our unit has 
no thermal printer).  Our station log makes a reference to the EAS 
tests with a rubber stamp each week that says, "DATA ON LAPTOP."  It 
is stamped over the pre- printed EAS line queries.

If the required tests were not received in full, then a notation is 
made on the Station Log, not the electronic log.

A pdf of one page is here:
http://www.noncomradio.net/stnlog/

About 16 stations use this log format. The data for each station is 
changed in Word.  Then using "Mail Merge" the date and page # fields 
are merged all in one printing of the 52 pages.

Commentary: Re: Station Log: you don't get brownie points for having 
items in the station log that aren't of concern to the FCC.  If you 
load up the station log with stuff that isn't a rule item, you just 
cause clutter and frustration at an inspection.

Use other logs for non-rule items.

Randy Henry