[EAS] General Question: Can't it be a software solution?

[Lowell Kiesow]

Do you really want to trust your main program line, and FCC compliance of your station to a home brew solution?  Don't forget that any solution has to be type accepted, which is nearly impossible to do with just software.  A PC running Linux is essentially what a DASDEC is. 
 
The blue Sage Endec has already proven itself in terms of flexibility, functionality, and reliability.  At a shade over $2k street price, that isn't much more cost than a decent computer and a pro-grade, multi-input sound card.  And it doesn't have fans making noise in your quiet studio.  I have been running a Sage here in WA, where we are already using CAP.  It is an excellent product.
 
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:17 PM, wpio fm 89.3 <wpio at gate.net> wrote:
>Seems that all that needs to be done to comply should be a software
>program that we could run on a dedicated linux or even windows box.

>Add what ever inputs are needed; add a program-interrupt device; but let
>a computer process the information.

>Are we trying to keep Gorman and TFT in business?

>Randy
>wpio

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