[BC] EAS
Robert Meuser
Robertm
Fri Oct 14 17:27:08 CDT 2005
Cowboy wrote:
>
> I don't shun GPS, but I do see it as over-kill.
> Not so much the hardware, as much as the entire national database,
> and the code, and the processor, to manage it, plus updates and changes.
> It would be simpler to simply grab an RDS data
> stream, or similar, from the area "most listended to" or some such, and
> not have all that database management headache and expense in the
> consumer product.
>
>
>
But most stations do not cover a single county, so you can unnecessary
warning for a region. GPS puts you into 2 FIPS codes at worst.
R
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