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> receivers are (c.f. this very article) inconsistently deployed What does it mean? > many users don't know how to use the ones they own. Who are these peopl
by kanbankaren 2y ago
> receivers are (c.f. this very article) inconsistently deployed
What does it mean?
> many users don't know how to use the ones they own.
Who are these people that don't even know how to turn on a radio and turn a knob?
- rblatz 2y agoIt’s been well over a decade since I’ve listened to AM radio, and I couldn’t tell you a single FM station and I’ve lived in this city for 12 years. AM radio is literally not even on my radar as a way to get emergency information. I don’t even think we have access to an AM radio. I’m an elder millennial, over half the country is younger than me. This legislation is absolutely out of touch with reality, and will do nothing but allow the old guard to slow down innovation and force the past on people who have no interest in it and will receive no value from.
- kanbankaren 2y agoI hope you are aware of the failures of other emergency notification systems that have utterly failed like in the recent Maui fires in Hawaii that resulted in loss of life. AM is the simplest mode of communication and one of the reason air traffic controllers still use AM rather than FM or digital codecs for communications.
- rblatz 2y agoShortwave is e even better, why not mandate that everyone have a shortwave radio if you’re mandating obsolete technology.
- kanbankaren 2y agoWell, a AM radio can tune to shortwave too. Besides the sarcasm in your comment, the need is to broadcast over a 100 mile range, not 1000s of miles.
- cgriswald 2y agoI live in a major Bay Area suburb and during power outages I don’t have cell reception. I can walk a bit and get some reception, but only for a day or so while the cell tower generator has fuel. My handcrank radio was dirt cheap and works great. Get yourself one.
- rblatz 2y agoI’m good, I’ve got no need for more junk that I won’t use.