[BC] California Fires, How s everyone doing?

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It won't work in my county, Loudoun County, Virginia.

My cable system was Adelphia, and they NEVER had a working EAS  
system.  Now that Comcast has taken over, it isn't much better.  They  
actually sort of accomplish RWTs, but RMTs have never worked.   
Getting the FCC interested has been a non-starter.  Thus, if one is  
watching cable, and not one of the off-air stations, the nukes could  
be inbound, and without a NOAA Weather Radio, one would never know.

--chip

On Oct 22, 2007, at 6:32 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 13
> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:49:11 -0500
> From: Mark Earle <mearle at mearle.com>
> Subject: Re: [BC] California Fires, How s everyone doing?
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> Robert Meuser wrote:
>>  From what one california official said in the media this morning,
>> 'nobody is listening to radio anymore' they had to send cops out with
>> bullhorns to evacuate people, the media is just not cutting it. So in
>
> Did 'they', the officials, use their EAS alerting capability? 'They'
> seem to know how to send out Amber Alerts. A properly working EAS  
> alert
> would, at least, go out on every AM, FM, TV transmitter in a given
> region. It would also "crawl" on cable systems even if folks were
> watching CNN.
>
> Anyone listening anywhere would hear the alert. Anyone watching would
> see the alert.
>
> I suspect (can someone confirm yes/ no) the EAS was not used.
>
> I can't fathom that no one was listening to some radio station in a
> neighborhood - or in their vehicles. No one watching TV. That does not
> add up.
>
> Also, did they ask NOAA to initiate an alert via the VHF NOAA radio  
> system?
>
> In other words, if they did do those things, I would be astounded that
> no one responded. If they did not do those things, then they got the
> response that is to be expected. The public are not mind readers!