[EAS] The 2017 EAS Handbook for LP-1's

[Sean Donelan]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2017, Bill Ruck wrote:
>> So prepare your handbook, and at least ask your operators to become 
>> familiar with it, and encourage them to occasionally review it, so it is 
>> there and used, when it is needed, if it is ever needed.
>
> Back in my days at KFOG / KNBR we had one board operator that had a one-bit 
> processor.  Nice enough guy but he could walk, he could breathe, but was not 
> able to do that AND chew gum . . .
>
> So whenever something changed and new instructions were written I would ask 
> "Could Dennis follow these?".   Most of the time we'd have to go back and 
> rewrite the instructions.
>
> "Go to the freezer; get the box" might have been too complicated in this 
> case.

Except the FCC says the text of the EAS Handbook is sacred, and cannot be 
altered in anyway by licensees.  You can only fill in the blanks of the 
official EAS Handbook. The rest of the PDF must be preserved exactly as 
written by the FCC.

So you will probably need to rewrite a separate set of operating 
procedures for Denise (or your specific installation), and seal the EAS 
Handbook in plastic for the FCC field agent.

If the current EAS Handbook was a sample template included an appendix to 
an EAS Handbook guide, which licensees could use as a starting point for 
their own instruction manuals. And which licensees could rewrite their own 
operator instructions, it could be useful. But as a sacred form, which 
cannot be altered by licensees beyond filling in specific blocks; and with 
no other information available, its a useless document.