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

[Sean Donelan]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017, Adrienne Abbott wrote:
> The fact that this supporting document has been
> lost to the mists of the old EAS web site (visualize the closing scene of
> Raiders of the Lost Ark) is a matter which should be brought to the
> attentions of the PSHSB.

As anyone who as participated on government working groups knows, this is 
standard.  Nothing beyond the final report, or in this case the draft EAS 
Handbook, ever lasts beyond the life of a government working group. I've 
been on many government working groups, they've all ended this way. The 
rest of the materials from a working group goes off to the archives or
purged.

If anyone thought there was other information useful to EAS Participants, 
you have to put it in the EAS Handbook itself; not other working group 
documents. Otherwise, you end up with what you got.

A quick survey ...

How many operating stations expect any operator-on-duty ever will use this 
version of the EAS handbook for anything beyond curiousity?

How many stations automate EAN and other required EAS activites, and will 
never use the EAS handbook beyond showing it to an FCC field agent?

Maybe there is some huge unmet audience for this EAS handbook I don't know 
about.