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digital alert systems EAS

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jboyd

We just placed in service the above unit. THIS IS NOT A COMMERCIAL....but I really think it is superb. You can control it and check alerts, etc. over the internet. Therefore, no paper tapes running out or jamming...you have a archived record of all activity that can be accessed from
any internet computer. Will some of you that have installed a similar unit care to comment on your experience? Thanks JBI
 
Other than the audio input level issue, I've had good luck with the Sage. I can't compare because that's all I've installed so far.
 
We bought a Sage for one station, and a DASDEC for another. Sent back the DASDEC.
Was not impressed by its user interface, nor the log. Took my IT guy(really--the ops mgr with a journalism degree, but he knows more than I do) most of the morning to get the DASDEC to talk to our network. I was able to get the Sage working on the network in a few minutes.

The Sage is designed NOT to be internet accessible for security purposes, although you can set it up to send e-mails to report alerts being sent. Probably could remotely access by Go-to-My-PC or LogMeIn.

The Sage log is easily brought up on the network & printed. Only quirk is you have to do a little "formatting" with print preview & the log screen to avoid losing entries when you print.

Biggest weakness with the Sage is the manual.
 
Seems this has been vocalized more from one individual that couldn’t figure out how to log in and gave up a bit too quickly to really discover the benefits. It's not that daunting.It is much superior to the Sage..I agree with jbi....
 
Have installed one DASDEC at my day job, and will install a new SAGE in a couple of weeks for a client. Yeah, the DASDEC was a bit confusing at first, but I get paid to figure stuff out. ;D One it's set, it's nice.
 
The biggest thing to run from IMHO is the cap converters. People trying to use this shortcut are going to get burned I fear. I'm advising my clients to run like hell away from that idea. Considering the damn government can't even publish their final standards for their CAP crap at this point, it's very likely the converters won't work 100 percent right. Before it's all over with I bet those that try the converter route will be very sorry they did.
 
OKCRadioGuy said:
The biggest thing to run from IMHO is the cap converters. People trying to use this shortcut are going to get burned I fear. I'm advising my clients to run like hell away from that idea. Considering the damn government can't even publish their final standards for their CAP crap at this point, it's very likely the converters won't work 100 percent right. Before it's all over with I bet those that try the converter route will be very sorry they did.
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Plus, you are putting a new saddle on a very old horse. Unless your current box is only a couple of years old, you are still depending funky mechanical printers that were repurposed form life in an adding machine. A lot of existing EAS boxes are approaching 15 years old. This stuff wears out.

We recently installed new DASDEC boxes. The first took some head scratching, but the second was much easier. That wasn't DAS's fault, it was just our unfamiliarity of the device. You really do need to "read the fine manual."

The good news is they work great. This weekend, I got my first sample of EAS logs emailed to me. We programmed them to do that once a week. I like it. It sure beats stapling a bunch of hard to read adding machine tapes into a log book.
 
I have many a DASDEC II in service, they're nice units. And well suited for clusters. And customer service is great and friendly and updates free and prompt when needed.
 
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