[BC] EAS Logs

[Glen Kippel]

On 4/20/07, Dan Kelley 
<<mailto:djkelley at frontier.net>djkelley at frontier.net> wrote:
we were logging manually but keeping the tape...and
after 2 ABIPs...by two different people all was well.

Aside from being a nice record, are the tapes in/of
themselves a "log" to cover you when you run unattended?


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No.  There must be some evidence that someone actually looked at the 
tapes to ascertain that all of the RWT's were actually sent and 
received, and that the RMT was received and forwarded.  That is the 
purpose of having this written down.  If a TOR, CAE or other EAS 
message was received and forwarded during a calendar week, that can 
replace the RWT for that week, and it should be shown on the log.

Sorry I wasn't clear earlier; there is no "EAS log," but there is a 
Station Log.  EAS activity should be shown on this log.  What I do 
for log retention is to have 24 file folders labelled January through 
December (2 sets) and when I finish up with a month I throw out the 
old log sheets, insert the new sheets and put the folder in the back 
of the file.  If a calendar week crosses over into two months, I put 
it in the month that has the most days, though if you want to put it 
in the folder for the month in which the week started, that's OK 
too.  The important part is that you should be able to easily find 
any log over the past 2 year period.

"Unattended" transmitter operation is one thing, but you cannot have 
an unattended weekly log review.  Somebody has to be there to do that.