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

[Adrienne Abbott]

Brian--
We all understand limited resources but it's apparent from the R&O that
there is a life-span to legacy EAS and the converter boxes. And there's no
guarantee that the economy is going to be any different in the near future.
But above all, you and your fellow broadcasters there in the Eastern Sierra
really should come together and work on getting the county to help pay for
your CAP equipment. After all, CAP is NOT for broadcasters, it's for
emergency managers and the public and while county officials want to make a
big deal out of their telephone notification systems, those things cost
money every month. CAP does the same job and more and the state already has
the backbone EDIS program which buttons right into CAP. Broadcasters from
Elko to Omaha are getting local governments to use Community Development
grants for new EAS equipment. You need to do the same, and you need to do it
before fire season. 
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 Brian Law

Adrienne, All

To Clarify my last message, I have the utmost respect for Adrienne and the
rest of the experts in the EAS community, but Adrienne's comments about
those who chose to go the less expensive route was taking it a little far.

We had to get a "software solution" for the Trilithic, which is not much
different from a converter box, because the EASyCast box was NOT CAP
Compliant.  Also, if we had not had a Trilithic, we would have been still
using a Gorman Redlich, and we would most likely  have had  to make the same
choice to buy a converter box for the Gorman Redlich.  We simply do not have
the resources to go spending money willy nilly.

>From what we read and what we were able to gather as far as information
goes, we and many other small stations were mis-led, both by the
manufacturers and FEMA.  We still decided to wait until the last minute to
"pull the trigger" and purchase the software solution for the Triltihic.  It
was only a few days after we purchased that the FCC decided to extend the
deadline.
If we had been able to wait, we would have (possibly) been able to make a
more informed decision.

Again: I highly  respect Adrienne and the other Experts in this EAS
community, but that was taking things too far IMHO.

My two cents.

:)

Brian Law
Living Proof Inc