[SBE] EAS CAP

[k7cr]

Thomas -

You make very valid points...Richard Rudman and I have been making noise 
about this issue for years.  We in the wireless business know all too well 
what works when the chips are down.

My best advice - Keep making noise...and lots of it!  The Feds do listen, 
but if we are silent, or only a few are speaking up...their ears become less 
effective.

Clay Freinwald
Outgoing SBE EAS Chair


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Shanks" <tshanks at gatech.edu>
To: <sbe at sbe.org>
Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: [SBE] EAS CAP



> This is my sticking point.  Are they actually going to require every 

> station to have a disaster-proof Internet connection?  The internet itself 

> is not at all disaster-proof.  The boxes really need to be listening for 

> relay and relaying when the internet does not pass the traffic first.  The 

> last thing we need is the FCC breathing down our throats when the 

> low-speed wireless internet connection to the transmitter site that uses 

> routers a 1/4 mile in the air dies for a few months due to a lightning 

> strike.  Relay should take over, and stations should be permitted to 

> operate over the old relay for as long as technically required.

>

> Come on National Office!  Get leeway out of FEMA on this!

>

> --

> Thomas Shanks CBRE

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