[EAS] CAP-EAS Compliance Deadline Extended

[Ed Czarnecki]

Tom - In answer to your question, yes absolutely, the DASDEC is fully FCC Part 11 certified.  Our FCC EAS certification information is in some of our literature at our website.

For what its worth, I will be speaking later this week at a Federal Bar Communications Association luncheon, hosted by the NAB.  The relevant responsible parties from both Federal agencies are also slated to be speaking at the round table.  It should be lively to say the least.

Edward Czarnecki
Senior Director - Strategy, Development. & Regulatory Affairs
Monroe Electronics, Inc.
www.monroe-electronics.com
www.digitalalertsystems.com


-----Original message-----
>From:Tom Taggart <tpt at literock93r.com>

>This current situation is what I "smelled" in some of the
>language of used by the FCc in their original NPRM
>concerning EAS several years ago.

>That is, a definite sense that the Commission was peeved
>that FEMA was moving in on its turf. Rather than coordinate
>efforts, we now have this mess created by the Commission's
>own incompetence.

>The real problem for those of us who actually believed that
>the FCC deadline would be a deadline is that we no longer
>have equipment that was clearly "certified" under the
>present rules, and have installed equipment that may or may
>not be "certified," even though it is "CAP-Compliant." I
>still have one old box, but the power supply for the other
>is already gone to repair a similar unit at a non-com I take
>care of.

>Important question, to Harold Price and Ed Czarnicki: Do
>your new devices meet the certification requirements under
>the PRESENT part 11 rules?

>If not, I would suggest a joint visit to the Portals by you
>and the NAB to suggest that the Commission grant a blanket
>waiver.

>Followed by a visit to FEMA to have the area around 445 12th
>St. SW declared a "disaster zone."

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