Re: AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing

On 02/05/2024 16:18, John Larkin wrote:

On Thu, 02 May 2024 05:24:08 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
 

AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/am-radio-is-a-lifeline-lawmakers-say-tech-and-auto-industries-disagree/
A recent test of the emergency alert system found only 1 percent got it via AM.
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Strange. most is FM these days, or digital?
Something to do with Soros buying radio stations ;-) ?

 If there is a real emergency, it's crazy to require people to be
listening to the radio all the time or die.

Actually it isn't a bad way to update people. You would actually say listen in every hour, three hours or fixed time daily (much like the UK met office shipping forecast) if there was a truly cataclysmic event.
Cell phone network is dead after at most 2 days without mains. Main phone network after about a week but VDSL and DECT go down immediately. The latter caught a lot of people out in Storm Arwen Nov 2021.
AM/FM analogue radio is about the best solution and lasts well if used sparingly. DAB radios eat batteries *very* quickly.
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Martin Brown