[BC] EAS on HD

[Rich Wood]

------ At 01:02 PM 12/7/2006, Robert Meuser wrote: -------

>A second thought. What good does the activation number do? My 
>receivers are registered in NYC. I use them mostly out West so I 
>certainly don't certainly don't want New York EAS when I am lost in 
>the Desert. Heck I go where the phones and regular radio don't work.

Very good point. I also travel well out of my activation area. I 
recently went to a party in Blair Witch country. I was so deep in the 
woods that SIRIUS didn't work and my GPS map (recently updated) left 
me a mile from my destination. It also lost satellites often. No cell 
service and the closest radio stations in MA and VT were low powered 
and unmanned. The rest were daytimers. If there had been a landslide 
on a rainy night I wouldn't know about it until it had buried me. My 
only communication option would have been the holy rollers on 
shortwave who expect me to go to Hell, anyway. I guess that's why 
most of the Eton "emergency" radios have SW instead of the Weather 
Service. The LED flashlight is nifty as I listen to Deutsche Welle 
waiting for them to warn me about the danger I might be in.

My first trip up there was in my old Jeep (since replaced). 
Fortunately, I stored my camping gear in the Jeep, so I could have 
set up the tent and waited until morning - or, disappeared without a trace.

Rich

Rich Wood
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