[EAS] Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way

[Alex Hartman]

Given the cost of these "adapters" and "converters", most of them are
only a few hundred bucks shy of buying a whole new box.  It does seem
silly to me that anyone would entertain the idea of even using them.

Last i heard the TFT adapter was something like 1500 bucks, my new sage was $2k.

Sucks that it's an unfunded mandate, but if the station owner wants to
play radio, this is one of the costs of entry, plain and simple. If
your station can't afford $2k for the box, i'm willing to bet either
the station is broke already, has a tightwad owner, and/or is a very
small community station with no money other than the grants it might
get.

Any other station however, $2k is made up pretty darn quickly. In
market 216, that takes one station about 1/2 a day.

If they don't want to pony up for it, log your complaint with
management, and sit back and wait. When the SM finally asks why stuff
didn't work, point to the complaint. Most will get it.

--
Alex Hartman

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Adrienne  Abbott <nevadaeas at charter.net> wrote:
> So basically, we--broadcasters, emergency managers and our communities--are
> being held hostage in the last century by equipment that was designed in the
> early '90's while most of us have the technology that fixes the problems
> that came with legacy EAS. It's interesting to me that all the posts here
> voice our concerns with the FCC rules that prevent us from fully utilizing
> CAP. As near as I can tell, the only advantage to a certain add-on converter
> box is price and nothing more. No one is writing in to claim any reason for
> using that equipment other than money. My advice to those apparently few
> broadcasters who can't afford the cost of new EAS equipment is that you
> contact your state or local emergency manager and ask them to fund your new
> equipment through a Community Development grant. It's been done in many
> communities. There are plenty of sales reps who are only too willing to help
> you. While you're wringing your hands and crying over costs, you're holding
> the rest of us back.
> Adrienne
>
> "Radio burps, it cries, it needs to be fed all the time, it requires
> constant attention, but we love it." Jim Aaron WGLN
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On
> Behalf Of Harold Price
>
> The footnotes indicate that the FCC is going to defer action on this until
> after they finish their review of the Nov 9 test.
>
>      "Accordingly, it would be premature to take any actions with respect
> to adding a new national EAS location code until after we have reviewed and
> processed the test data from the November 9, 2011 Nationwide EAS Test.
> Accordingly, we defer taking any action on this matter at this time."
>
> The sticking point on this is the old legacy devices in the field, i.e.,
> those that intermediary devices must depend on.  Many of those 16 year old
> devices can't handle a new 000000 code.  Some of those devices can't be
> updated.  The FCC can't mandate that those old devices be updated, only that
> they no longer be used if they don't conform with the new rules. Adding the
> 000000 code would make the use of the intermediary devices problematic.
> Keeping EANs mired in 1996 may be an unintended side effect of allowing
> intermediary devices.
>
> Harold
>
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