[EAS] [BC] Late news on the EAS Web Forms

[Randall Miller]

Just a handful of weeks ago, before this months' statewide monthly test (the
last statewide test before the national test), I asked the GM of a radio
station that is the LP-1 for its' area if he had been getting updates about
the national test.

He had not heard of it at all!

True, he is the GM, not an engineer or operations manager, but that station
only has a contract engineer that pops in when needed, and it is an LP-1.

I sent him all kinds of links to EAS & national test pages, including one to
this very forum (In fact, he's probably going to see this post!).

I'm simply saying this to illustrate another example similar to the end of
Tom's message.

Randall Miller
KOBI-TV, Medford Oregon

-----Original Message-----
From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net]On
Behalf Of Tom Taggart
Cc: eas at radiolists.net

Barry:

The key questions on coordinates is "why" and "what for."

If the issue is coverage of the PEP or primary relay station
(e.g. --"EAN didn't go through because signal was too weak
from the station we are supposed to monitor" then what they
really want is the location of the EAS decoder.

For most of us that's the studio, not the transmitter.

Using transmitter coordinates just confuses the issue.
Especially where there are six different forms filed for the
typical six station cluster, --but they are all using the
same decoder.

Second issue is that the facility number and coordinates
questions are bound to be filled in wrong for many stations.
As we have already discovered, the decimal entry thing is
confusing even the engineers on this list. Many stations
only have a contract engineer anymore--EAS stuff is handled
by a non-technical staff member.

Of course, this presumes they even know about the form, or
the test, for that matter. We have a low-power station in
town that is taken care of by a local two-way engineer.
Good engineer, used to do broadcast work but that was eons
ago. Called his company today as we needed their satellite
guy to bring up his S/A to set up a new dish. Asked him if
the low power station had EAS equipment.  Answer: What's
EAS?

(There's a retired Gorman-Redlich & printer waiting for him
at the front desk of one of my stations--just dropped it
off)

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