[BC] Fine? 5k for eas botch?

[Lotus Engineering]

The DJ who woke me up that morning had missed all ten bells, and by 
the time he called me, the retraction had come out.   Most of the 
small market stations in those days did not have external bells, and 
the UPI/AP machines were in sound cabinets in some office area where 
the noise bothered people.
Bill


-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Ring
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 5:22 PM

Lotus Engineering wrote:
 > the rest of the story from there.  Somewhere I
 > have a paper of the actual alert sequence. Check
 > out http://ebstest.stlmedia.net/
 >
 > Bill
 >

The writer of that piece says hearing ten bells on Sat. morning grabbed
his attention, as it was meant to do, however one of the reasons many
stations missed that botched test/alert is that ten bells were sounded
EVERY Saturday at the same time for the expected test. I suppose that
the reason for ten bells even for tests was to test automatic
bell-counting alarm devices too.