[EAS] Should the RWT EAS Code be abolished?

[Bill Ruck]

At 01:53 PM 11/24/2011, you wrote:
>....
>         I know of at least one station that, for over
>         three months, filed tapes showing RWTs,
>         and even RMTs, only to discover the
>         gozintas were connected directly to the gozoutas.
>
>         Without solving that sort of situation,
>         it doesn't matter even if 100 "required"
>         tests are sent.
>

Legend has it at more than one station back in the dark ages of EBS 
did their weekly "test" with a tape of interrupted white noise 
followed by the tone.

That way their transmitter never overloaded and shut down.

Bill Ruck
Curmudgeon
San Francisco