[EAS] Delayed sending RMT request

[Rod Zeigler]

I did find in 11.52 (a) the following:
EAS Participants must be capable of receiving the Attention Signal 
required by 11.31 (a) (2) and emergency messages of other broadcast 
stations during their hours of operation. EAS Participants must install 
and operate during their hours of operation, equipment that is capable 
of receiving and decoding, either automatically or manually, the EAS 
header coeds, emergency messages and EOM code, and which complies with 
the requirements in 11.56.
The phrase "during their hours of operation", with no qualifying 
statements to the contrary, tells me that you are under no obligation to 
hold on to expired messages and send them when operations resume.
As to an EAN that is in progress, I expect the same holds true and you 
would join it when you resume operations.
I am NOT a lawyer, nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. 
Your FCC legal counsel is your best bet as he will have to defend his 
opinion to the FCC should it come to that.

-- 
R. V. Zeigler, Dir. of Eng.
Nebraska Rural Radio Assn.
KRVN-KTIC-KNEB
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