[EAS] RMT question.

[Harold Price]

Tom,

My reading of the rules (I am not a lawyer, you should check with 
one) is that, for RMT

"Analog and digital class D non-commercial educational FM, analog and 
digital LPFM stations, and analog and digital LPTV stations are 
required to transmit only the test script."

As in simply read the monthly test script on the air.  Since you 
already have a CAP capable ENDEC, you can just hook it up in the 
audio chain and just let it do its thing, and every other month when 
the RMT is sent at night, you can read the script the next day.

Or, you can put the ENDEC in a mode where alerts will be held if you 
are off the air at night.  An RMT is specially held past its 
expiration time, so that it will play when you are back on the air.

This is controlled by a GPI - you ground it when you are on the air, 
and let it float when you aren't.

Harold

At 05:22 PM 8/9/2012, Tom Taggart wrote:
>Low power station, broadcasts 8 AM to 10 PM.
>
>The monthly test arrives at 11 PM.  Do they need to relay it
>the next day?
>
>They have a Sage unit.  I've never tried, but I assume that
>you would be able to pluck the audio off the log and insert
>into their automation system, just like any other audio
>file; if they needed to actually broadcast it.
>
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