[EAS] Handle SQW code

Bill Ruck ruck at lns.com
Wed Jan 28 22:14:37 CST 2026


One friend of mine, now SK, taught me that participation in EAS must be 
voluntary because the Communications Act of 1924 forbid government 
censorship.  Making a radio or TV station broadcast something is censorship.

The President signs a "finding" giving him EAS authority but my friend 
said that if anybody ever contested that it would be found to violate 
the act.

The challenge is to make EAS something that a station would WANT to 
broadcast, not to make EAS something that a station MUST broadcast.

Bill Ruck
Curmudgeon
San Francisco



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