[BC] Point-to-Multipoint EMCOMM

[Glen Kippel]

On 4/29/07, Rich Wood <richwood at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> ------ At 08:30 AM 4/29/2007, WFIFeng at aol.com wrote: -------
>
> >information. Now they also have those hand-crank genset radios
> >and/or solar powered
> >sets for emergencies... but they're all analog!
>
> Just be careful which one you get. I get a kick out of the ones that
> have shortwave instead of NWS. I doubt the BBC is going to be much
> use in a disaster in CT.
>
> -------------


Yup.  Exactly.  Those poor suckers -- er, customers who got talked into
"getting a shortwave radio for emergencies" will find out that China Radio
International or Deutsche Welle (sorry, BBC dropped their North American
Service some years ago) isn't going to give them information on local road
closures.