[BC] Re: EAS Question

[Glen Kippel]

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Broadcast List USER
<Broadcast at fetrow.org>wrote:

>
> I would suggest that some California TV stations would be available on Dish
> or Direct TV in Needles or Blythe, though neither of those towns are in any
> danger of anything happening to them!
>

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Well, there could be a tanker truck full of noxious, toxic chemicals
overturned on I-40 or I-10, respectively.  Or highway 95 in between the
two.  Flooding along the Colorado River.  These might be cause for an
EVI.  Both of these towns are so far removed from the rest of California
that they may as well be in Arizona.  Most everybody there listens to
stations in Kingman, Lake Havasu City, or Yuma, anyway.  Yuma has TV
stations on Black Mountain that cover the extreme east portion of Riverside
and Imperial counties, and one of them is the LP2 for Yuma County.  Also,
for quite awhile there was NO radio reception along I-10 near Desert Center
except for a country station in Brawley.  That's in Imperial County.  We
worked out a deal so that if the CHP or county sheriff had a problem in that
area that the info would be routed through the Imperial County EOC.  Yeah,
you could drive down I-10 at 70 mph with your radio on "scan" and not pick
up much of anything for nearly half an hour.  Now they have a couple of
translators for Arizona stations and we eliminated the Imperial County
thing.

You guys back east with counties the size of a postage stamp just don't know
what you're missing.