[EAS] State Plan Mapbooks

[Tom Taggart]

Adrienne, Richard, Gary, et al.:

The state plan and mapbook are one of the reasons I start
foaming at the mouth when EAS begins to be discussed.

Especially since the FCC uses the state plan for enforcement
purposes. Here's a link to the WV state plan, newly
formulated in 2011 without any thought to CAP (CAP? What's
that?), or input from most of the broadcasters in the state:

http://www.wvba.com/resources-mainmenu-69/eas-mainmenu-76.html

"You can't see that, we haven't submitted it yet"--actual
comment from the EAS chair when I started to look at the
newly revised plan last year. This was at the WV
Broadcaster's spring meeting last year--I happened upon the
usually closed and unannounced EAS meeting when I wandered
into the room where a later (announced) meeting was
scheduled to demonstrate the new CAP equipment.

This 2011 plan has the call sign for one of my stations
wrong. We changed calls in 2004. A 900 W. non-comm. I take
care of, which is the only station licensed to its county,
isn't even listed. Been on the air since 2001. The NWS
station they would monitor isn't listed. Although this is
now academic--NWS apparently has either cut power or not
maintained that station--can no longer hear a whisper even
with a souped-up fixed tune receiver. (I'm going to give up
& install a second FM tuner so they monitor two different
state relays.)

Indeed, the NWS station my stations monitor is kinda
listed--and kind not.  Bad PDF copy of the plan or sloppy
cut and paste job when they edited it. 

And this is supposed to be an enforcement tool for the FCC's
glorified clerks?