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		<title>FCC Proposals on Modernizing EAS: Where Industry Agrees …. and Where It Doesn’t</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Edward Czarnecki, Ph.D. [September 2026] The FCC record shows an industry ready to strengthen emergency alerting—but wary of reforms that could exchange familiar limitations for new and less visible points of failure. As the deadline for comments to the FCC’s latest EAS proceeding on modernizing EAS draws here, here is a rundown of industry [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Custom FCC EAS Compliance Blueprint</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Barry Mishkind [September 2026] The FCC is telling stations, large and small, that they must make changes to harden their systems against hackers. Fortunately, there is a way to do this without spending a lot of money. A new company, PCwrt, is ready to consult and offer help to get the job done. With [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Complete Station Audit Is Important</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Barry Mishkind [September 2026] There is no question, even with fewer items in many control rooms, there is a lot to do just in the process of maintenance of station equipment to ensure your audio and RF systems are in proper order.&#160; Early this month, Jeff Welton and I did a video presentation to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Building A Secure Network For EAS</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Rolf Taylor [August 2026] The FCC has become increasingly unnerved by the repeating hacking intrusions into normal program transmissions. Worried that this could affect delivery of information and instructions on the Emergency Alert System (EAS) during an emergency situation the FCC lit a short fuse in an effort to promote more secure networks at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Do You Have the Right USB-C Cable?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Barry Mishkind [August 2026] One thing about standards – they keep changing. This is true across many areas of use. FCC Rules have changed a lot in the past months. But the electronics industry is always changing. For one thing, you likely have at least one adapter cable to deal with the various USB [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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