[grc] [Stubblefield] EAS Receiver options

[pete tridish]

Well, your EAS equipment should not be where people are monkeying around 
with it anyway. it should be in a closet or a rack that is out of the 
way.  As i described, a UPS is generally sufficient to make sure that 
the power on the receivers does not go off and you don't have that problem.

As I said, to spend $400 more for these little things that only really 
save a bit of time to  the engineer doing the installation seems foolish 
considering the start up budget of many of these LPFMs. the days of 
federally subsidized equipment for radio  are over, and the overpriced 
products ( $400 radio receivers)  that emerged to cater to that market 
of " not really my money, so who cares how much it costs" are numbered.  
there can be good reasons for a fancy receiver, like monitoring for a 
translator.  but old stereo receivers have no moving parts, and are 
generally ridiculously  reliable for their current thrift store price. 
I'd say,  spend your money where it matters every day, like on the console.

petri



juice at whidbey.com wrote:
> I have seen many stations attempting to use used consumer grade FM-AM 
> receivers for EAS monitor inputs.
> The problem I see is consumer receivers can get unnoticed knocked off 
> your monitor channel far to easily with someone inadvertently rubbing 
> up agents the wrong channel button or the channel selector knob. After 
> a power failure some receivers will not come back to the original set 
> monitor frequency. If discovered by a FCC inspection, its a potential 
> large fine.
> Tom Voorhees
>
>

>

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