[EAS] Fwd: New 2021 EAS Operating Handbook

[Dave Kline]

One might consider the "normal duty position" to be where the EAS box lives.

I agree with Sean in that this is an antiquated practice, having an EAS Operating Handbook. It made sense in the red envelope days of manually verifying an EAN. Our automation can't read the Handbook and doesn't know when programming is locked up because an alert is missing the duck farts at the end. All it does is trigger the outgoing RWT, based on a program log. Everything else is automagic based on programming the EAS box.

In most other areas the FCC has long gotten away from telling us HOW to do something. They only tell us WHAT to do. They don't require a written procedure about who to call when the transmitter breaks. They don't have us modify a one-size-fits-all document for remote control operations. We are required to enter EAS activity in the station log, and note missed alerts. Shouldn't that be enough to show compliance? Do we really need an EAS coloring book too?

On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 11:39 AM Ted Langdell <kxmjradio at gmail.com> wrote:
>If someone is monitoring and "tending" a station/stations over their phone or other mobile device, it would seem they need to have a copy on their mobile device.
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