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Not everyone's first language is English. I understood exactly what they meant. It's cool, I do this myself sometimes thinking people are talking about the US

Not everyone's first language is English. I understood exactly what they meant. It's cool, I do this myself sometimes thinking people are talking about the US just because I live here. Just try and be a bit more open minded?

rendall 4y ago
Sure. Mind is all the way open. Pointing out that a sentence doesn't make sense isn't an insult. As a foreigner in Finland, I try to speak Finnish every day. Believe me, I am well familiar with constructing nonsense and being told so. Anyway, the military broadcasts a light? What's going on there?
- rendall 4y ago
  Ok, so every radio station in the UK has a special light. The light is turned on whenever a royal dies. And then there is a prepared message pre-recorded by the UK military that the radio station broadcasts? How does the station know which royal died? Is the light different colors? Blink different patterns? The station calls the military?
  - srmarm 4y ago
    I'd like to know more too. I can understand that posters vagueness as most of what I can find about it (e.g Wikipedia) is quite vague on the technicalities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Radio_News#Obituary_procedure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Radio_News#Obituar... From what I can gather a network of radio stations has pooled news bulletins and the organisation behind it provides this 'obit light' in it's members radio studios that signify someone important has died and to prepare for a bulletin, upcoming news programming will follow a certain format and the output should be changed to suit the mood. Looks like it's a bit of a legacy thing. They also mention a serial channel that has a 'Major Story Alarm' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Radio_News#Serial_data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Radio_News#Serial_... It'd be interesting to see how it works/worked from tech point of view - perhaps some kind of long wave radio signal on the frequency that the news broadcast is sent from? But yeah, doesn't look like a military thing or that it holds any authority

rendall 4y ago

Sure. Mind is all the way open. Pointing out that a sentence doesn't make sense isn't an insult. As a foreigner in Finland, I try to speak Finnish every day. Believe me, I am well familiar with constructing nonsense and being told so. Anyway, the military broadcasts a light? What's going on there?

rendall 4y ago
Ok, so every radio station in the UK has a special light. The light is turned on whenever a royal dies. And then there is a prepared message pre-recorded by the UK military that the radio station broadcasts? How does the station know which royal died? Is the light different colors? Blink different patterns? The station calls the military?
- srmarm 4y ago
  I'd like to know more too. I can understand that posters vagueness as most of what I can find about it (e.g Wikipedia) is quite vague on the technicalities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Radio_News#Obituary_procedure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Radio_News#Obituar... From what I can gather a network of radio stations has pooled news bulletins and the organisation behind it provides this 'obit light' in it's members radio studios that signify someone important has died and to prepare for a bulletin, upcoming news programming will follow a certain format and the output should be changed to suit the mood. Looks like it's a bit of a legacy thing. They also mention a serial channel that has a 'Major Story Alarm' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Radio_News#Serial_data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Radio_News#Serial_... It'd be interesting to see how it works/worked from tech point of view - perhaps some kind of long wave radio signal on the frequency that the news broadcast is sent from? But yeah, doesn't look like a military thing or that it holds any authority