[EAS] Ira's comment

[Tom Taggart]

The other side of the coin is that if the unit is not ready
to work right out of the box, it will likely never work to
its potential.

There's a small station 100 miles or so east of us owned by
a DJ. Our station has kind of inherited them in a way...last
week my ops mgr. was over there getting their production
computer to (once again) work with the soundcard so they
could do production. The local computer "guru" is clueless. 

As long as station like these can buy a converter (or even a
full box that doesn't come preprogrammed) that will spit out
RMT's & has a button to push to run a RWT, they've met FCC
requirements. Actually getting emergency messages or having
anything else useful will never get done.