[BC] KWVE redux

[Alan Kline]

Thanks, Barry, and thanks for passing on the station's side of things.
You're right, it's good to know the other side of the story.

The Commission seems to forget that the entire point of doing EAS tests
is to ensure that the equipment works *and* that the operators are
trained in its use. It stands to reason that when fallible humans do
this type of thing, there will occasionally be mistakes. That's the
entire point of doing tests! That's our opportunity to find the
mistakes, retrain where necessary, and refine procedures, *BEFORE* an
activation takes place! What's the point of doing tests if the
Commission expects us to be absolutely perfect, without human failure,
every singe time?

There is something seriously, seriously wrong with our regulatory scheme
where normal human mistakes and errors are considered to be "willful"
violations of the law...

ak

Barry Mishkind wrote:
> At 10:58 AM 10/6/2009, Alan Kline wrote:
>> The biggest problem in this instance, and with the current FCC
>> Enforcement Bureau in general, is the Commission's deliberate distortion
>> of the definition of "willful" in the Communications Act.
> 
>          You are EXACTLY right, Alan,
> 
>          Marcos O'Rourke, who is the CE at KWVE, laid
>          out the rest of the story. It will be found at
>          www.theBDR.net/articles/fcc/rules/index.html
> 
>          I think it is worth knowing the "other side."