[EAS] Next Generation

[Bill Ruck]

Clay,

I realize that with most of today's transmitters all you need to do 
is to change the air filters once in a while.

But with today's reduced staff (i.e., 10 stations with one engineer) 
who is going to install the new equipment and who is going to trouble 
shoot the equipment?

Bill Ruck
San Francisco

At 04:01 PM 11/16/2014, you wrote:
>Bill Ruck wrote -
>
>The main issue is not technical -- we know it can work -- but political.
>Who is going to maintain the equipment?  The days of a minimum two union
>engineers on duty at a 50 kW clear channel transmitter site are long over.
>
>In case you have not noticed....50Kw transmitters today pretty much run
>un-attended for extended periods.   The local CBS station here runs one
>that's in a box no bigger than what a 1 kw rig came in a few years ago.
>
>NX50 Dimensions
>1.84 m H x 0.96 m W x 1.12 m D
>72.5" H x 37.75" W x 44" D
>
>Older than you near Seattle :-)