Station Compliance›FCC Watch

No change to the § 11.35(d) compliance date, and no waiver. Two things worth knowing.

The equipment makers' position on software EAS

The two names most small stations have in the rack filed on the software-EAS proposal (Radio World):

• Digital Alert Systems urged the FCC not to authorize software EAS until certification covers the whole system — including the computer it runs on and everything it depends on — and raised cybersecurity and accountability concerns.
• Sage Alerting Systems, which stopped making hardware in 2024, is broadly supportive but warns against unmanaged software setups that nobody curates.

For a station, the practical reading is the same as last week: nothing is adopted, and nothing in your rack needs to change because of this proceeding yet.

A free password generator

MaxxKonnect put up a free, browser-based generator at fccpassword.com that makes random 15-character passwords screened against dictionary words (Radio World). It asks you to fill in a short form first.

It is a reasonable way to produce the passwords. Two things it cannot do for you: a password must be unique to that device — the rule forbids reuse across your other equipment and accounts — and some gear silently truncates a long password to its first eight characters. Test the login after you set it.