What's the definition of "immediate"? 1 second, 5 seconds, 10? How long does it take to walk/run 100' if your phone rings and the caller ID identifies the satellite center? How long does it take the satellite center to tell you about the problem and what they want you to do about it (adjust power, adjust cross pol, shutdown)? What if you're only 50' away?
This is from
Dictionary.com:
im-me-di-ate [i-mee-dee-it]
-adjective
1. occurring or accompolished without delay; instant: an immediate reply
2. following or preceding without a lapse of time: the immediate future.
Me thinks that it's obvious when talking about "...
the operation of the remote station shall be immediately suspended by the operator at the control point... " what "immediate" implies in that regard. It's a
time issue. If you get a call from access to power down, they're not asking you to do so in 1, 5, 10 seconds or however long it takes to run 100'. NOW. IMMEDIATELY. Without delay. But the definition goes on:
3. having no object or space intervening; nearest or next: in the immediate vicinity.
...
7. very close in relationship: my immediate family.
And this would cover the
location issue. If you're within the immediate vicinity of the truck, you should be able to power down immediately. Of course, definition #7 says "...
very close..." and that could be nitpicked to death of what that means. But I'm thinking the FCC is referring to time, not distance when they say "...
immediately..."
Nobody is saying they don't WANT a two person crew. But it's not easy to point to the FCC regs and say it's REQUIRED.
True. It's difficult to cut through all the legal-ese and see the clear-cut rules and regs isn't it?! If anyone were to really take their time while reading them, any sane, logical and smart person could make the assumption that a two man crew would make the most sense.
(Of course, that last sentence is full of contradictions in regards to our bidness... but I threw it out there for a laugh!)
Aside from affecting satellites (and you can cancel out the "twist" by turning your dish controller off), there is really no safety difference between DSNG & ENG... in fact, I'd think ENG is different because of the 50' stick up in the air.
Point taken. "Look up and live." still applies to DSNG huh?! I've edited my previous post after reading, re-reading and re-re-reading that sentence. I guess there isn't too much difference when you boil it all down to the nuts and bolts...
That's great. No one hear is faulting you. All Jimmy is saying is the regs don't require someone to be in the truck.
What? What? (...I can be a smartass at times...)
And all I was saying is that the station that I work for uses a two man crew on DSNG shots: a truck op and a photog. The station where I learned SNG ops eventually had me doing the OMB thing and I got burned on a number of occassions because of their "money saving techniques". One of the reasons why I crossed over...
All in all, my feelings are "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." If your station currently uses a two man crew for DSNG shots, cool. If you're doing them OMB and haven't had a problem, cool. I'm a fan of the first...