[EAS] Password cracking basics

[Mike McCarthy]

While my cluster has sufficient boxes in house to provide one per 
station, we choose to have one for three and another for two. Why?  The 
CoL's of all five are all in the same county. And for the former, the 
three are 100% simulcast and the former two are simulcast 50% of the 
time. As a result, I have two spares sitting in my store room.  This was 
a planned purchase and ownership agreed.

I saw no reason to make things more complicated than necessary by adding 
another three boxes to the air chains. In fact, it saves some time each 
week as the logs for the various stations are simply printed three or 
two times respectively eliminating the need to access multiple boxes 
(and also securing them too.)  I don't deny that the risk of breach is 
multiplied accordingly.  But all our boxes are behind professional 
business class fire walls and none are tied to any type of standalone DSL.

I would have done four for the 100% simulcast stations except we have a 
remote Main Studio (shared with another station) which I didn't want to 
place an ENDEC for the very reasons we are discussing. The ENDEC for 
those two stations are instead located at the TX and controlled via a 
closed circuit LAN extension through the respective TX T-1's.

There are valid business as well as operational reasons to commonize 
some things in a group.  With that said, we are unique as a result of a 
100% simulcast across 4 stations. If the stations were programmed 
separately, we would in all likelihood would be operating one per station.

MM

On 2/16/2013 12:38 AM, Richard_Rudman wrote:
> I successfully convinced all my clients (23 stations in 4 clusters) to install one per station. Lots of good reasons to do this.
>
> Richard Rudman
>> (no-one is going to buy six of these things just to have one for each
>> station in a cluster)