[EAS] non-participating EAS

[Dave Kline]

Well as I understand the new rules, all the non-part designation essentially went away.
If you are required to send and receive EAS you are a participating station now.

When I became the C.O. at my station. It was a non-part.
The only difference is, staying on the air for an EAN or signing off until it was over.
We were still in the cold war... this was EBS Two Tone days and not that far removed from EBS drop the carrier days.
The attitude was that if the EAN came down, you had maybe 30 minutes before the nukes started exploding all around.
No one in their right mind would stick around to deal with EBS even if just to shut down the transmitter.
Most folks in Omaha work less than 30 minutes from home and likely would want to be there with family if they could.
Unless you were wearing SPS 2,000,000 sunblock, the last thing anyone would be worried about would be a fine from the FCC.
We were located maybe 10 air miles from Offutt Air Force Base, AKA Strategic Air Command Headquarters.
Remember Dr. Strangelove in the underground command center?
Remember the Mutual of Omaha emblem being blown off their headquarters building during a nuclear attack?
That was us.
We most likely had more than one ICBM pointed in our direction. Though one would probably sufficient to ruin the rest of the day.

Since it was technically and operationally easier to stay on the air and carry the alert (or not) than to shut down the transmitter, I had the designation changed to Participating.

And true, a station is not required to do anything other than EAN, RMT, and RWT's.
Management that has any brains at all should be asking...
"Other stations are doing this, why would we not?"

 
Dave
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Dave Kline   UNO-TV / KVNO
University of Nebraska at Omaha
6001 Dodge St. Omaha, NE  68182  CPACS 200