[EAS] Delayed sending RMT request

[Dave Kline]

I get that Dale, and fully understand, having been in that situation.
I feel that it speaks to a flaw in the state plan more than it does to individual stations.
Given the move to increasing automation if nothing else, one would, I think, want to consider in any state plan the possibility of there being no one at the LPs or SRs to run the RMTs. That somewhat forces a station to have staff on hand that they might not otherwise have. It kind of becomes another unfunded mandate. Where do the Amber Alerts (if you have them) originate? At the local stations, by the part time, fill in, hasn't done a shift for four months, minimum wage, would rather be anywhere else but here on a Friday night board op? I hope, for the sake of the abducted child, that is not the case. The RMT is supposed to be a full system test. If it is not originating from the same folks that originate other full system alerts (Amber) then it is not really a good test of the system. It serves only one purpose; to comply with an FCC regulation. Compliance with a regulation that serves no other purpose than to comply with that regulation should be a red flag that hey, something is really wrong here. 
But that's just one man's opinion.

Dave
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Dave Kline   UNO-TV / KVNO
University of Nebraska at Omaha
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