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.

The FCC dismissed on 9/22/2022 the Non-commercial Educational (NCE) FM station application by Community Public Radio, Inc. for a station on Parsa Peak in Lakeside with the city of license of “La Jolla” on 91.7 (La Jolla is a community within the City of San Diego). The facility would have been co-channel with XHGLX-FM Tijuana (which is not listed in FCC databases, but the FCC has reserved as a Mexican allotment for Tijuana). The FCC also named an allotment for adjacent channel 91.9 MHz in Rosarito, BCN, Mexico, and third-adjacent XETRA-FM 91.1 Tijuana as reasons for the dismissal.

San Diego broadcasters should now get local EAS information from the SBE Chapter 36 EAS page. The site contains EAS resource links and an RMT schedule.

Oscar Medina is retiring from the position of Local Emergency Committee Committee (LECC) Chair and Gary Stigall volunteered to take it, tackling the San Diego EAS plan 2022 revision.

Gary will work with the Vice-Chair of the California State Emergency Coordination Committee (SECC), Richard Rudman, to revise the 2013 San Diego County plan. That plan will be posted when complete.

The EAS broadcast information email distribution will continue from the same MailChimp source, using the same subscriber list. No need to re-apply

It was in August 1999 that local EAS LECC Chair Jeff Williams left for Santa Barbara and passed the position to Oscar Medina, who at that time was Chief Engineer at KNSD (TV). Oscar has maintained a website and helped revise the local EAS plan.