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BBC World Service Announces Emergency Radio Service for Gaza
- rasz 3y ago>advice on where to access shelter, food and water supplies so a looped recording of "get up, grab your kids and walk south NOW"
- wannacboatmovie 3y ago"Mine is the last voice you will ever hear, don't be alarmed."
- capableweb 3y agoWhere in the south though? There is artillery/bombings/violence in the south as well, so still important to get information about where to find resources when you're on the ground in the south.
- sandworm101 3y agoPolitics aside, this is a good reminder that oldschool radio can still do things modern network-based tech cannot. The ham radio nerds prep for exactly this sort of situation. Blocking the local internet is easy. Such networks can be turned off as easily as a lightswitch. Widespread blocking of radio requires a totally different magnitude of effort.
- candiodari 3y agoYou mean not being immediately blocked by ALL factions because it's unidirectional and doesn't allow for coordination of armed forces? Sure, it can do that. But I would truly hate if someone made the internet unidirectional.
- krisoft 3y ago> Widespread blocking of radio requires a totally different magnitude of effort. Like bombing every location someone transmits from? It sounds like they very much have the means to do it if they want to.
- LordShredda 3y agoI was going to say that targeting civilians is a war crime no matter who does it, but that doesn't seem to be an issue
- objclxt 3y ago> Like bombing every location someone transmits from? This is a Medium Wave service, it doesn’t work that way. The signals are reflected by the ionosphere, you can broadcast from thousands of miles away. Nobody is going to be bombing Cyprus, where the BBC transmit from. The best you could do is jam the signal, but that’s cat-and-mouse at best.
- gruez 3y ago>but that’s cat-and-mouse at best. How hard is it to buy jammers for the common frequencies?
- sandworm101 3y agoPowerful enough to jam the BBC across Gaza? Hard.
- vr46 3y agoI’m sure a lot of people would love to bomb the BBC out of existence but that might be hard.
- krisoft 3y agoI really don’t mean the BBC. The comment i responded was comparing the ease of shutting down the internet to the supposed hardness of shutting down amateur radio transmissions. If you were in Gaza and in posession of a radio amateur set would you dare to turn it on? I woudln’t. I would be too affraid that would lead to a strike on my location. Besides with what fuel to power the radio?
- namegulf 3y agoHope musk enables starlink for everyone there, right now limited to NGO's
- lgeorget 3y agoWho's got a receiver apart from NGOs there? It's not like they can make them enter the Gaza strip right now.
- exitb 3y agoWhy no frequency in the announcement?
- allanrbo 3y agoThe page says "The Gaza service will be broadcast on MW 639kHz for morning and evening episodes." So I think this is within the normal AM broadcast band that most car radios can receive.
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- netsharc 3y agoThere's a song out there that uses a remix of a woman saying "This is London calling". I only made a connection that it was the BBC's announcement (why they're "calling" when they're broadcasting, I don't know yet): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuJ5_j4U6HQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuJ5_j4U6HQ
- true_religion 3y agoThey mean calling as in “calling out from afar”, not calling in the way of two way contact like on a phone.