[EAS] Delayed sending RMT request

[Mike McCarthy]

Harold,

If in fact stations are obligated to re-forward the RMT upon returning to
operation, can you please make the forward/re-forward possible through the
web browser?  For stations which have their box at remote locations and
are not manned at sign-on, this creates a significant hardship to get
someone out at oh-dark-hundred and do the deed from the front panel.

Cheers...

Mike

On Wed, December 3, 2014 10:21 am, Harold Price wrote:
> I looked at 17 year old notes to see why this GPI feature was
> added.  It is from 1997,  and at that time, it wasn't clear if a daytime
> station had to send the RMT script when they returned to the air the next
> day, or just log that they were off the air when it came in.  There was
> much conflicting advice at the time, in the handbook, and in the state
> plans.
>
> But, that was then, and this is now.  I'll again review the current
> state of the rules, and will probably remove the feature where a GPI
> holdoff special cases the RMT to play back when the daytime only station
> returns to the air in the morning.  Unless anyone has any objections?
> Note that the log will show that the alert was sent, the
> engineer will need to make a note that the station was off the air at the
> time.
>
> Harold