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Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test
From: Andy Brezinsky <andy () mbrez com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 20:59:21 -0500
The challenging part for government is creating a public warning system inexpensive enough, its available to everyone, not just people who can afford private airplanes.
We could use the one that was already built for this: The NOAA All Hazards radio network (http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/). It uses 7 nationwide frequencies and 1025 radio transmitters to cover 95% of the US.
It costs around $20 for a basic receiver. A car could easily just listen to the 7 frequencies and wait for the alert tones. If you want to get fancy you could overlay GPS to detect the county and use that to filter the alerts to the county you're currently in.
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- Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test, (continued)
- Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test Sean Donelan (Oct 08)
- Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test Andy Ringsmuth (Oct 09)
- Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test bzs (Oct 09)
- Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test Brian Kantor (Oct 09)
- Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG (Oct 09)
- Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test Chris Adams (Oct 09)
- Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test bzs (Oct 09)
- Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test Sean Donelan (Oct 09)
- Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test Sean Donelan (Oct 09)
- Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test Andy Brezinsky (Oct 09)