[BC] EAS 911-D

[Darryl Parker]

Barry,

FYI the rules are fairly clear on this.

Only stations that are co-owned and co-located may use a single EAS encoder/decoder or EAS decoder only. This requirement does not apply to receivers of CAP converters. The outputs of receivers and CAP converters can be shared by stations in the same location whether or not they are co-owned.

Regards, 
Darryl

-----Original Message-----
  From: Barry Mishkind

At 04:31 PM 6/25/2012, Kyle Magrill wrote:

>No, not exactly. It's about a time shared group of stations that all 
>jointly own a common transmitting plant.
>They will have a CAP converter, but not three of them since there's 
>only one airchain.

        I would tend to suggest - although it would
        be best to ask someone at the PSHSB - that
        this is sufficient, based on the actions of
        a local consolidator.

        they apparently use one encoder for multiple
        stations .. and the "sent by" is the corporate name
        rather than a set of call letters.  If there is an
        "entity" that owns the transmitter, for example,
        in common, that should work.

        If there is a single owner and a usage agreement,
        I would believe the PSHSB would say it is OK, or
        at the least, grant a wavier on holding multiple EAS receivers... 

        As usual, as they say, I don't even play a lawyer on TV,
        so my advice to be 100% is ask someone.