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The new deadline is June 30, 2012! Did your equipment decode and relay the test alert? SEE BELOW
Now is the time to finish evaluation and issue the purchase order. While the FCC may be somewhat forgiving if the excuse is reasonable (It's doubtful "we just ordered it" will fly) it will need to be installed. And what if there is an emergency and you're not prepared. In this litigious world, do you want someone realizing that they were listening/watching your station and you didn't transmit a warning?
The test is done. Have you filled out the forms? You can do it online (see link below). Did your EAS unit trigger? Did it relay the alert? If so, great, finish the forms, making sure to follow up with form 3, and that's it. Put a copy of all filings in your logs and public file.
Here is the just-REVISED guide book for the test This book MUST have been available at the transmitter control point during the November 9 test.
THIS is the link to the FCC page which gives access to the forms. You may file form 1 electronically in advance of November 9 or the appropriate report can be printed out and completed by hand and mailed back after the test.
Here is the FCC's "Degrees/Minutes/Seconds-to-Decimal Degrees" Converter Applet
There is more information available at http://tinyurl.com/E-reportingNationalEAStest
There is a "EAS Best Practices Guide" available at http://tinyurl.com/EAS-Best-Prac-Guide
Interesting content from Radio World regarding vagaries in the FCC's test reporting requirements
Still more info on EAS and IPAWS (Integrated Public Alert and Warning System) is at
http://www.fema.gov/emergency/ipaws/eas_info.shtm
Here are some additional links for your further research and regarding the November 9 test.
From TV Technology on the latest extension
From TV Technology on the extension debate
FCC Third Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (6-19-11)
Radio World - Stations Pressure for Extension (08-04-11)
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