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When a tower is not properly lit because of a light outage, the tower owner is required to notify the FAA. Doing so creates a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) that is available to all pilot in regularly published notices and also through the FAA's NOTAM phone service at 800-WX-BRIEF.

Designing video equipment for streaming multiple uncompressed video signals is a new challenge, especially with the demand for 1080p 3G-SDI streams.

Changes are occurring in the EAS. Are you aware and ready for them? Find out the latest by checking out the EAS website.

Mississippi Engineer Electrocuted while working on Transmitter

Aug 19, 2010 - Jerry Campbell, a contract engineer, was working at the transmitter site of WDMS when he was electrocuted

What is the Latest for EAS?

Streaming multichannel uncompressed video

Reporting a Tower Light Outage

If you’ve been living under a rock recently (and with this economy, unfortunately, you may very well be), you know that things are bad out there.

Dealing With an Unexpected Layoff, by The Dolans   

The FCC, FEMA, the NWS and the EOP have begun planning for a national EAS test, with subsequent tests to occur thereafter.

FCC Issues Further NPRM to Nationally Test EAS