Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 17:03:03 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 02 May 2024 18:03:09 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="46ba529ec8a4a2037d56d68b662a63dc"; logging-data="4145402"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/NBqgF0WdANb6y12U5PZTRddfxU7eCyAeEo6DLix4kLA==" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:yx0IeQIz3ovhYq4VthOklUu9+IM= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 2315 On 02/05/2024 16:18, John Larkin wrote: > On Thu, 02 May 2024 05:24:08 GMT, Jan Panteltje > 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. >> >> 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. -- Martin Brown