[BC] Fine? 5k for eas botch?

Alan Kline akline at netins.net
Tue Oct 6 14:04:55 CDT 2009


Thanks, Tom. I stand corrected. It's unfortunate that we can't just 
withdraw from this "voluntary" system altogether...

ak

Tom Bosscher wrote:
> Minor point Alan,
> 
>     If you are non-participating EAS station, you still have to do all 
> the tests, transmit and receive, log it all. Being non-participating 
> only means that if there is a EAN, you go off the air.
> 
>     But I'm watching this one real close. My feeling is that 90% of the 
> LP-1's and LP-2' s are watching the FCC, and if the fine goes through, a 
> whole lot of stations will pull out of the LP-x category. And I don't 
> blame them. This was an accident. Period.


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