The FCC announced in mid-December that February 28 is the new deadline for submitting a Form One in the EAS Test Reporting System (ETRS) in anticipation of a National EAS Test, which, as of this writing, does not have a test date established.
While there was no national test in 2022, if your station was operating before last year, you likely have an account set up on the ETRS. The FCC said it would open the site for Form One filings on January 3, 2023.
SBE Chapter 36 will end 2022 with a holiday luncheon and good cheer. Join us Wednesday, December 14 at 12 noon at Del’s Hideout, 5351 Adobe Falls Road, San Diego, near Waring Road off I-8 in Mission Valley. Bring a guest. No host, no presentation. We look forward to seeing you there.
In case you hadn’t noticed, our website and email server were down for the past two weeks. When you stop paying the bill for domain registry, the registry keeper can redirect to a “shaming page,” wherein that agency declares the website registry expired and is awaiting payment to renew the registration or offer it for sale.
However, that redirect page declared that the registry had “expired on 11/11/2024,” two years into the future.
Many thanks to “Lucy,” the overseas support agent for Network Solutions, who, after 45 minutes wasted with online support chat and several other phone agents, finally understood the issue and initiated the fix.
Dave Biondi of Texan.net and Broadcast.net originally offered websites to all SBE chapters in 1997 and we took him up on it. He upgraded us to SBE36.ORG the next year and has maintained the registry as part of a wholesale group ever since. He continues to ignore our offers to pay. Some people.
Crews at the UCSD tower site atop Mt. Soledad removed the remaining equipment at KLVJ (FM) 102.1 after constructing its primary site at the KFMB (TV) transmitter building last year. KLVJ had continued transmitting from the UCSD site until their lease expired this year. The tube-type Harris HT-30CD was retired and the massive FM combiner split to act as a bandpass filter for site partner KLQV 102.9, said regional engineer David Pelz.
Continue reading KLVJ 102.1 Leaves UCSD SiteThe FCC issued the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking FCC-22-82 last week in an effort to shore up security vulnerabilities discussed recently. The vulnerabilities include the usual easy-to-guess passwords, lack of EAS device software updates, and so on. The FCC wants to require broadcasters and cable operators to report cyber threats to their EAS equipment within 72 hours and file a cybersecurity risk management plan with the FCC for their EAS system. The commission also wants broadcasters to download and install security patches for their EAS gear.