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Maybe not meaningful coordination, but if the whole citys power shuts down, you'd still like some news about what happened, why is there no power, no internet,
by ajsnigrutin 2y ago
Maybe not meaningful coordination, but if the whole citys power shuts down, you'd still like some news about what happened, why is there no power, no internet, no nothing.... war? farmer plowing too deep? ddos attack on the infrastructure? In such cases, having long distance broadcasting service is great.
- ta1243 2y agoAM radio then. If you want internet, get a starlink.
- maxerickson 2y agoSo a localized total outage? Weird that the farmer had no idea everything was in the one spot.
- ajsnigrutin 2y agoYes, wouldn't be the first time https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/06/georgian-woman-cuts-web-access https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/06/georgian-woman... (not a farmer but still)
- maxerickson 2y agoThat doesn't say that power is out, which is what is described up thread and what I meant by "total".
- ajsnigrutin 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003 No power, so no internet, cell service was overloaded and didn't work because of that, and well.. all that was was left was the radio.
- maxerickson 2y agoI lived through that. I don't remember how I found out what was going on, and the university I was near still had their power station up, so I may have had better local comms (it was small and not real tied to the grid, mostly used for heating). I certainly didn't spend time huddled around an AM radio.