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From: Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to
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Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 17:03:03 +0100
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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.
>>
>> 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